With the onset of the cabin project I have come to love rustic decor more than I ever dreamt I would. Before the cabin, it wasn't really my thing. Now I can't wait to get started on the planning and design of the rest of the house (that will attach to the cabin some day), retire, move there, and be mountain rustic every day.
Until then, I will have to be satisfied with spending vacations and holidays there, and if regular rustic decorating has turned out to be loads of fun, rustic holiday decorating has turned out to be truckloads of fun.
So far we spent last Thanksgiving at the cabin (can't wait to spend Christmas there and launch into Rustic Christmas) ...below are some highlights of what our first cabin Thanksgiving looked like...
Lots of texture and simple details...
My mom's dishes are now the cabin dishes and using them brings back many memories of every day meals and Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations. Another reason to love being at the cabin.
The stag flatware was a Bass Pro purchase, not a place I would normally consider for decor, but I was trying to use up a gift card, and at the time these were perfect for our 5th wheel trailer. Now they are perfect in the cabin.
Lot's of natural elements (real and fake) on the table and the cabin in general.
This guy was also my mom's. He sat on her fireplace mantle for years and was usually featured in her holiday decorating.
Sadly the pine cones from our pinon trees are small, squashed-looking little things and just don't work well for pine cone decorations. I'm sure I got the pine cones on the table from a craft store...kind of silly for someone who owns 15 acres of pinon-juniper woodland, but the conifers with the nice looking pine cones are at higher elevations here.
Being at the cabin makes us both so thankful that we took this enormous leap of faith (or off a cliff, as it seemed sometimes) and bought this special piece of property.
I can't imagine now not having this place in our lives... something to be thankful for every day...
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I hope you have a lovely Thanksgiving!
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I hope you have a lovely Thanksgiving!
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Most likely linking to the following this week....
That DIY Party at DIY Showoff
Amaze Me Monday at Dwellings
Inspire Me Monday at My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia
Sweet Inspiration at The Boondocks Blog and Art Decoration and Crafting
Bouquet of Talent at Life on Lakeshore Drive
Happiness is Homemade at Ducks 'N a Row
DIY Salvaged Junk Projects at Funky Junk Interiors
Sundays at Home at Celebrating Everyday Life
Your place is just gorgeous. Everything is perfect down to the last detail. When I was younger, my sister gave me a rustic cabin decor book. It was lovely and I flipped through it often, but it was never going to be my style. Ha! This house ~ and a few decades ~ have changed all that! Happy Thanksgiving!
ReplyThanks so much Kim! It’s funny how one can change over time. Happy Thanksgiving!
Love it! It's wonderful to have such a place, isn't it? We have a small farm we go to as often as we can. Love being there for holidays. Someday it will be our full time place.
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The silverware is perfect! :)
Thank you Cecilia!