Simple Winter Decorating - Goodwill Thrifting & Styling.

All right y'all it is time to get this house in order. As you can see there's so much mess behind me. I know we've all been sick or you're recovering from being sick. I'm at the tail end of mine finally and I've actually been stressing about how chaotic this house is. I normally have it all decorated for winter and I would have probably had it posted by now but I need to give myself grace so I thought I would just pick up the camera and share maybe the next couple of days with you and just kind of bop around the house and clean up and get it decorated for winter. I also was able to go to Goodwill a couple of times right before I got sick so I have some thrifting footage to share and a haul. I have one thing that I think is so good and I can't wait to show you and I'm going to style that hopefully in the entryway today. But I did manage to get the mantel decorated the other day so let me show you that really quick. The mantel itself is decorated but everything else is messy and chaotic but anyways I just kept it simple with staple pieces and then mixed in some blues, greens, light blues for winter. So lots of old books like I always do and then some of my old trophies. Put some winter greens in the big one here. Put a little prize ribbon hanging off. I liked the light blue for winter. I also tied ribbons around the sconces in that same color. On the other side, again, more books. I have this really pretty silhouette. Some more little sprigs of greenery and then on the sconces, I have candles in them but I found these really pretty sconce shades at Goodwill the other day. They're this pretty satiny taupe and I just thought that was really nice for winter. They're going to match the throw pillows. So with that being said, let's go ahead and segue into some thrifting. It's not going to be super long but let's head over to the Goodwill and I'll show you some things that I found. Alright y'all, we are going to take a quick thrifting break. I did purchase this piece here. I'm pretty sure this is like an umbrella stand or a cane stand. I thought that was something good to bring home and use for those things, yes, but I was actually playing around with it yesterday and I think I'll share it in my next video. You can let me know how you like it. Just try to think of different ways to use it other than what it's supposed to be for. So if you have any ideas, let me know. I also thought about getting this cool trunk but it was a little messed up. It was $10 and I just couldn't think of anywhere that I could put it. I wasn't thinking about this in the moment but I have had this picture pinned for years and I love how they used it to display plates like this. So I wished I would have brought that home to see if I could have made it work for something like that. This piece reminded me of something I would see in an interior design book. I think it's chinoiserie. I don't know but it's not necessarily my style but I feel like a lot of people would like it. You'll have to let me know. Would you pay $10 for it? I wanted to say I hope you all had a great Christmas and holiday season and a good new year or start to the new year so far. I'm wondering if y'all do like the whole new year's resolution thing. I know some people choose a word of the I don't normally do any of that stuff. I've just learned over the years that I'm not going to keep up with it and I also don't really feel the need to preach about taking it slow or anything like that. But I'm curious about what y'all do if you have any traditions. These were actual feathers so I guess feather art. Whether the feathers are real bird feathers or not. I thought these would be something neat to put in an antique booth if I had one. Alright I have you in the entryway. Y'all this whole video is going to be so echoey because of how bare the house is but let me show you the most amazing thing. I love her. I paid $16 for this. I found this I think a few days before Christmas. I don't even remember. It was at a resale shop. I walked in, saw this, saw that it was $16, thought yep I'm paying $16 but I'm getting out of here right now. So I immediately I had like my little blinders on, went straight to the counter, purchased this and I can't wait to put it on the wall. So I'm in the entryway because I think I want to do like a winter equestrian theme. I say winter because it's winter but I'm just going to do like an equestrian theme. I hung some curtains. I normally have that antique lacy curtain because I'm really weird about blocking out the light because this house is so dark but these are pretty. They're toile. Couldn't think of the word. They're blue toile. So I hung those and I'm gonna put this here on the wall and just play around. So let's do some decorating. All right I'm not sure how well you're going to be able to see this but this is one of my little hidey holes. I think I have a couple of equestrian hats in here or riding hats. I have this little um I forget what those are called. I think I have a brown one. Okay quick interruption here. I went ahead and took the toile curtains down. They're just too blue um so I think I'll put those back up during summertime. Now I realize this offers no coziness or warm but it lets the most light in. So it is what it is but something else I did was I just screwed in this little wood. I think this is a tie holder but how perfect is that for the equestrian look and I took some of the clips off the ends. I think I'm gonna hang my some of my what are these called horseshoe ribbons here. That could just be like a fun display piece. All right I'm ready to just be done with this. I feel like I'm spending too much time on it but I grabbed a jacket and a nice winter color and I feel like the bottom needs a pop of color so I'm just gonna add some finishing touches and call it a day on this section. I really like the texture that this little bag adds and it's definitely old so I'm just gonna drape it here. I think I'm gonna put a basket on the ground as well. All right y'all I'm gonna stop there. I'm not gonna spend too much more time in here but I absolutely am going on Amazon tonight and getting a curtain that suits this space better. Something either patterned or that adds more warmth because after seeing something like that in here for Christmas I just can't take how wide it is and I can't paint the walls so that's what I'm gonna do later but other than that I think this is what I'm gonna leave or how I'm gonna leave it. I'll just maybe come back to this later but for now I want to move on to the dining room. All right the sun is going in and out but the dining room is a mess. I switched my cabinets back so the dining table got covered in stuff. I did go ahead and put some of my white ironstone dishes. I went with solid white for winter. I put some in there. I didn't spend too much time on it but I did stick some like winter greens and pine cones and acorns in there just to make it feel more wintry I guess. And I hung my praying man picture which we love him. Okay and then what I was playing around with was I wanted to do like honestly more than two plates on here like a mini gallery wall of platters but I don't have enough colors. I wanted to do blues, greens, maybe blacks or browns and I'm just not liking the way it looks so I stopped here but I have this shelf. It's just like a little dark wood shelf and I thought if I add that there I could add some warmth and maybe I could try to display my salt and pepper shaker collection on here. I don't know I'm gonna give it a shot and see if I like that. Okay y'all it's actually been two days because I ordered curtains and I wanted to wait to share them with you. You can see them in the background here. I love them so much. I got them off Amazon. They're this gorgeous brown and dark blue plaid and they're the perfect curtain for me for what I want for winter which is like these really moody colors. They even have these cute little tassels like tassel fringe on the end and I think they complement the tablecloth and runner that I'm using in here as well. So I really wanted to share those with you before finishing today's video. Oh I also got one for the entryway and that really helped finish off the space and again give it warmth and just more of a winter feel instead of it being so bright and white in there. So anyways as you can see it is dark. It's actually raining outside. That's fine. It's gonna add to the winter ambiance of this video. Anyways I'm gonna finish off the table. I did hang the shelf. I hate it. It's just not what I'm wanting so I'm gonna change up some stuff over here. Get some decor on the table and finish this room off.