Best of 2015, My 4th year!

2015 was a great year, my friends and readers. I have certainly enjoyed the past four years of blogging, and I thank all who have supported my on this adventure. It is always fun to look back.
Today, I am sharing with you my 15 most viewed posts of 2015. Enjoy!

#15 Palm Springs, y'all.

#14 Custom Art by Lisa Papa.

#13 Vintage Find {Double Pan Scale}

#12 Ellendale Plantation Home.

#11 It's Carnival Time {Den}.

#10 Watson Kennedy {Seattle: Day 1}.

#9 Post-Its {April Fool's Day}.

#8 Decking the Halls {Parlor Mantle}.

#7 Decking the Halls {Stair Parlor}.

#6 Decking the Halls {Den}.

#5 Forty-Seven.

#4 Decking the Halls {The Facade}.

#3 It's Carnival Time {Stair Parlor}.

#2 Tartan Parade.

#1 R.I.P. Sweet Adeline.

Thanks for a great 2015. I am looking forward to an even better 2016.

Best of 2015, y'all!

Share Your Style #46

I hope all of you have had a Merry Christmas and will be celebrating in great fashion for New Year's Eve. Thanks for your numerous and nice comments concerning my Decking the Halls Christmas Home Tour 2015.

You can check out all my Decking the Hall posts by clicking HERE and reading the entire post.

Watch the videos:

This will be my last week as a host for the Share Your Style party. I have enjoyed it a great deal over the past year, but I must move on. Thanks for sharing your posts week after week.

This week's host: Amanda of Dixie Delights

This will be my last week hosting the party and I want to thank all of you for participating and all of my co-hosts for the great inspiration week after week.

Barbara @ 21 Rosemary Lane

Lynn @ The Vintage Nest

Kelly @ The Essence Of Home

Martina @ Northern Nesting

Ron @ Uptown Acorn

Amanda @ Dixie Delights

 FEATURED LINKS:

This week's party was full of incredibly gorgeous Christmas home tours.  I chose three favorites to share with yall.  Be sure to pin for next year!!

Everyday Living

My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia

Patina and Paint

 If one of your links was featured, be sure to grab our button before you go!!

 Now, on to this week!  We hope you'll join in with your decor, vintage, DIY, tablescapes, creations and yummies… in other words, pretty much anything STYLE related.  Grab our party button and add it to the bottom of the posts you link up:

With that, it’s time to Share Your Style!!

xoxo

An InLinkz Link-up

Celebrating the Holiday with Friends

Last night, J & I headed to Thibodaux to visit with some lifelong as well as high school friends. 

We met at Thibodaux fave, Flanagan's for drinks and ate dinner afterwards. The conversations were varied, and the laughter was infectious. My stomach is still hurting after all the laughs which continued at Claire's beautiful home afterwards.

Our friend "Nutty" said it best, "Had a ball last night! I love you all. And how wonderful to have great friends that even through it can be months and even years when we all get together we just pick like it was yesterday. We are so blessed to have each other." I agree. Yes, we are!!!!

Lifelong friends are always the best. #coinpurse #thibodauxsubway ..... the laughs went on and on.....

Cheers to Michelle! Monique! Nutty! Claire! Dionne! Colleen!Julie! We missed you, Margo! Love you girls.

Celebrating with Friends, y'all!

Decking the Halls {with Hand-Painted Oyster Ornaments}

Each year, J & I add to our every growing collection of Southern-inspired ornaments. This year, I was happy to add several hand-painted oyster shell ornaments by artist, Cindy Lewis. You may remember her from an earlier post HERE.

Cindy Lewis is a fine arts artist. Living between New Orleans and Florida, she has done art restoration in France for museums as well is a master finish artist. She can do any finish from tortoise to malachite. Her love of fine art takes her to France as often as she can get there. 

Her ornaments are available through AKA Stella Gray, a Magazine Street fave.

Check out more:

Front Door

Facade

Mantle

Parlor

Stair Parlor

Oh Deer

Dining Room

Den

Breakfast Room

Kitchen

Plaid

Nighttime Video Tour

On Perrier Street

Stockings

Decking the Halls with Oyster Ornaments, y'all!

Decking the Halls {with Stockings}

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care.

I adore the newest cotton knit sweater stockings J & I purchased from the Ralph Lauren store on 5th Avenue. I had never seen these before, and I had to have them.

They blend in quite well with my Christmas den decor.

Check out more:

Front Door

Facade

Mantle

Parlor

Stair Parlor

Oh Deer

Dining Room

Den

Breakfast Room

Kitchen

Plaid

Nighttime Video Tour

On Perrier Street

Decking with Stockings, y'all!

Decking the Halls {Christmas Cards}

Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Our Christmas card, a Scriptura exclusive, features a jazz band playing on a street corner in the historic French Quarter. J & I love to listen to these groups while walking through the Quarter. Tanya & Dorise have become a fave of ours.

I love the sentiment: 

"May you find 

MERRIMENT ON EVERY CORNER

this Holiday Season"

Of course, I love to use music-inspired confetti in each one. It is a surprise when they are opened.

This year all of my Christmas cards were placed in a glass curiosity box on the coffee table. I love the organized look and ease of flipping through each.

Decking the Halls with Cards, y'all!

Decking the Halls on Perrier Street

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

From my home to yours, Merry! Merry!

Enjoy the Video tours...

Sharing at: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year at Meet Me at the Shaneyfelts

Decking the Halls on Perrier, y'all!

Decking the Halls {with Plaid}

This year, I have seen lots and lots of plaid offered for Christmas. As a fan of plaid since birth, I loved coordinating different tartan plaids in my Christmas decor --- pillows, blankets, ribbons!

Plaid Pillows.
Thanks to Kris of Junk Chic Cottage and Marty of A Stroll Thru Life for locating and shipping me the great plaid pillows with fur trim. My blog friends are the best!

I love the plaid pillows with the embroidered antlers used in the parlor.

Two etsy plaid pillows, monogrammed of course, fit nicely on the master bed.

Plaid Bedding and Blanket in the master bedroom.

Plaid Plates.
Thanks to BFF Amanda of Dixie Delights for the monogrammed plates and to Liz of Infuse with Liz for finding the plaid dinner plates at her local TJ Maxx. Now, she is in search of the salad versions. Didn't I say blog friends are the best?

Plaid Tablecloth by Suzanne Kasler for Ballard Designs.

Plaid Frame.

Plaid ribbons.

Plaid gift wrap.

I have always loved plaid, and it works perfectly at this time of year.

I hope you and yours have a Merry Christmas Eve.

Decking with Plaid, y'all!