Holiday Leftovers

 

The making of my yule log.  Only gave one as a gift this year to Apriella at IGA and, of course, one for us!

My Christmas wolf.

Christmas Eve Cherry Bellini Cocktail.

My sweet old girl Geisha.

Croque Monsieur for dinner with the bellini.

Christmas day gifts. The Anthropologie packaging is as pretty as what is inside.

Balsam and cedar candle.

My favorite gift to Bob to wear around the office to give a hint.

A really nice surprise was a 12-month gift from my aunt. I get garden bulbs each month. The gift that will keep on giving because I will place the bulbs in my garden. The first bloom!

The switch from the Christmas mantle to the winter mantel.

On to the new year!

Actual Anniversary Day Monday, Dec. 9

 Bob had planned on a tour of an old church in Asheville, but we got a late start and it started raining, so we changed plans. Being a Monday, there was not a restaurant open anywhere, so we decided to go to one of our favorite places, the river in Greenville where the Grand Bohemian Lodge is.

         Beautifully decorated for Christmas.

   I love everything about this place and can spend hours just looking around.  

       Huge fireplaces throughout.

    Bob heads straight to the vintage books which you are allowed to take off the shelves and read.

 The staircase garlands were beautiful. We had not been down to the bar in this part of the hotel before.

And then there's the artwork!

Those tiny lights on each table were so cool.  Closeup in the video below.

The cocktails were soooo good! I had two called "Sweater Weather" and Bob had the "Upstate Elixir".

I had flatbread with burrata, baby arugula and fig jam. It was delicious.  Bob had sliders.  Highly recommend the bar. Very relaxing.

Bourbon bread pudding for dessert.

                    Another anniversary selfie.

Christmas Decor

Tree is up and very sparkly the way I like a tree!  Daylight tree.
 

The mantle has two groups of vintage angels found at an estate sale that I didn't want to part with. 

Gifts for Bob's office.

Catrina and Michele get afghans this year.

A couple family gifts already mailed and received.

I swore I would never use gift bags because I love to wrap boxes, but for the office it makes it so easy and the bags are so cute!

  Nighttime tree.

Timber, who I keep catching head butting the tree. He is determined to knock it down like Geisha did last year!!