Home for Christmas 2010 - Dining Room

A couple of metres of inexpensive red panne velvet fabric

makes a wonderful tablecloth.

No sewing or ironing...ever!

Our small tabletop fibre-optic Christmas tree

that had once glowed many changing colours,

was sort of not working.

John removed the bit that was broken

and now we can use it...but only in one colour.

I chose RED...of course.

So now it glows red alongside

the large wooden birdcage.

John used a strip of LED lighting, in RED,

from Supercheap,

(the ones that are used as extra brake lights in the back window of cars)

to position inside the cage.

It makes the whole inside glow a gentle RED at night.

Inside the birdcage,

there resides a trio of

 'Cathedral Cats'.

I think it is very ironic that they have chosen

to live in what apparently was supposed to house birds.

Short, clear plastic beaded curtains

add a bit of sparkle

to the dining room.

(again, purchased from my favourite pharmacy!)

Atop the ornate wood carved framed mirror sits a small set of

'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'

that John bought me as a surprise,

while touring NSW a few years ago.

'Santa and a small boy'

were a bargain I picked up one year,

half price, from a Jewelry Store

during the sales a few months after Christmas.

'Scarlett' is our resident mannequin

that I picked up from an Overflow store a while back.

She helps to make the day Merry and Bright

by displaying more beads and greenery.

Small faeries oversee the dining and lounge rooms

from on top of a cabinet

which has a very ornate tassel

to embellish the handle.

Next : the Family Room...