Christmas Kitchen, the Cabin

I copied this from my previous blog. It’s last year’s pictures from the Holiday Tour but it is just about exactly how I decorated the kitchen again this year so I thought I would share in sort of a “Throwback Thursday” sort of way!

We are a happily retired Army family living in North Carolina in a cottage on an island off the coast AND on the top of a mountain in a cabin over looking the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Despite my lackluster blogging skills, I’m happy to be back again this year sharing our kitchen at Idlehour, our little mountain cabin!

The name Idlehour came from the book A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.

I don’t know about every where else but it’s customary in the south to name your home!

Our beach house is called Lost Cay Cottage and the name Quarters One was the name of our home at Ft. Riley, KS which is where we were stationed when I started this blog.

“Lola” our cow friend, the only cow you’ll find in our kitchen as we maintain a plant based life style.

It was a snowy day when I took these photos…it’s a great view of the mountains from this window I really wish I could have captured it!

I have a life long habit of wanting to fill in empty spaces but I’ve been trying to adopt a life of simplicity and that’s the look I was going for when decorating this kitchen.

My favorite little St. Nick purchased in Stuttgart, Germany when we were stationed there. He fills my heart with happy memories every year when I unwrap him!

One of our three pups, Beatrice! My daughter found her on the highway two years ago and, despite my attempts to find her a home, she found her home with us.
And my new Ruggable (Kamran in Coral) I am a big fan of both the rug and the dog!

The downstairs is mostly all shiplap painted White Dove. It was a new build but we were lucky to find!

Foccacia from a local bakery, best I’ve ever had and I lived in Italy for four years!

Christmas Crunch…melt a bag of white chocolate chips, fold melted chocolate into 1 1/2 cups of each of these ingredients and spread on wax paper to cool.