Along My Country Road

Check out this new blog Along My Country Road I hope you'll go over and visit Betty at her new blog and welcome her to blogland :-) Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. My sister Kim and I spent a few hours today at our friend Jamie's house. It is decorated so pretty for Christmas and I took lot's of pictures to share. I will post them later today or tomorrow.

Christmas in My Bedroom

My room is pretty much put together. I have it decorated for Christmas with a few of my favorite Christmas things. I did keep it pretty simple, though. Enjoy the pics~

Cottagey Bowl Rack

Now you have to picture this on a coffee colored wall. Well, the paint in my room is called coffee, and it's a light brown color.You can kind of see the paint color here in this post. I painted my bowl rack and these picture frames yesterday and put together this display that will hang in my room. The lighting isn't that great in this picture, but I really love how it all turned out. Just the look I was hoping for!

Christmassyness, Snow, and an Empty House

Ha Ha, I like that word Christmassyness:-) Here are some Christmas pictures and ideas that I love~
I LOVE this wreath hanging on the old chippy cream color! Next year I want one of these wreaths. Maybe I'll make one. I'm not really a blue person, but this blue and brown combo is so pretty.
I think this room looks cozy~
I like this idea of the three wreaths on the door, pretty , pretty!
Something about this room looks cute and cozy to me. It's not exactly my style, but I still like it.
Those pictures are so fun to look at, but here is what I'm looking at in my living room here in Nebraska. A whole lot of empty walls. My dad took a car load of things back to Illinois for me when he dropped me and Paige off last Thursday. We will be here until Monday. I am going through my things and deciding what to bring with me to Illinois now and what to get later in the Spring.
Here are the Christmas things that I have decided to take with me to decorate my bedroom next week. Hope it all fits in the trunk :-)
I found tons of Christmas labels that I bought back in the summer. I forgot about them and I'm not sure what to do with them. I bet Kim and Jamie would be happy to take some off my hands ha ha. Haley, you might like some of these, too. I have PLENTY of them.

This is what I have going in my tart burner here at my house. It might not look a lot like Christmas here, but it sure smells like it! These little tarts smell sooo good !
I did decide to put up two little trees, so that Paige and I would have some kind of Christmas decor while we are here for the week. I thought Brian needed some Christmas decor around here to enjoy too. Here is a simple little tree with just lights and pine cones~

We decided to do a Cardinals tree for Brian since he LOVES the Cardinals. My mom and I found these Cardinals ornaments at JC Penney's. I thought the santa hat made a cute topper~


We have such pretty snow on the ground, so that's one more Christmassy thing around here. It's snowing hard right now and is supposed to keep on snowing all day and tonight. We will have an awful lot of snow by tomorrow I bet!


Okay, Jamie, I know I said that I wasn't going to use my bowl rack and that you could hang this in your house, but I just had an idea and now I think I'm might use it in my room. I want to paint it cream and make it look cottagey, but I'm just not sure until I get back to Illinois. I guess we'll see. I may be overdoing it in there as I want to keep my room simple.

So that's what's going on here. Hope you all have a Christmassy day! :-)

My Favorite Things

Here are some of my favorite things right now~

Seattles Best Gingerbread Latte at Borders~ My favorite part is the little gingerbread man sitting in the whipped cream on top.




Iced Wreath from Target~ I don't have this wreath, but every time I'm in the Christmas section at Target, I see this wreath and love it. I'm loving white and snowy Christmas decor this year.

Screendreams Living Fireplace~ this might seem silly, but I love it! We got this at Sams Club. It has 21 different fireplace scenes and 10 different music and natural sound effects to choose from. If you don't have a fireplace this is perfect!
Twilight Water Bottle from Borders~

The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection CD~ Love her version of Silent Night. So happy that Taylor won AMA artist of the year! :-)

Merona Muffler Super Soft Scarf from Target~ I bought this blue scarf and it is so soft and the color is so pretty. I can't wait for a day cold enough to wear it.

Buxom Babes Winter Escapade~ just got this set of mini buxom lipglosses and the colors are gorgeous and perfect for the holidays !

Fekkai Glossing Cream~ I love this stuff! It makes my hair so shiny and takes away any frizzies.

Lavender Leaves Candle from Bath and Body Works. This is the best and strongest smelling lavender candle I have ever smelled. I absolutely love the smell of lavender. It is so calming.

Philosophy Amazing Grace. Amazing Grace is my all time favorite fragrance.
So now I'll be like Oprah and anyone who leaves a comment will get all of these items delivered to their door! Ha Ha~ that would be fun, but sorry not gonna happen! Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Clip in Bangs and Believe Glimmer

If you are looking for a perfect sparkly eyeshadow for the holiday season or just for any day of the year you need to get this Bare Escentuals Glimmer called Believe. It says that it's an icy blue, but I think it is more of an icy gray with subtle blue undertones. It is my favorite eyeshadow right now. It's so soft, pretty, and sparkly! It is also a special BE Cares color which means that every purchase of this color contributes to CEW's Cancer and Careers program. Here is the link if you would like to purchase Believe .

Paige and I were shopping in Ulta a couple days ago and discovered these cool clip in bangs. A stylist in the Ulta salon showed us how they work and we were so impressed that we had to buy some. They look so real! Paige and I have a pretty similar hair color, so we are sharing the bangs. She wore them the first couple of times and I wore them today. Here is the link to buy some if you are in the mood for some bangs, but don't want to cut your hair ~ Clip in Bangs


Here we are with our bangs. Don't they look natural ?

Colonial Bedroom

If you'd like to see some pics of a beautiful Colonial bedroom you can visit my sister Kimberlee's blog The Patriot Homeplace. She has recently redone her bedroom and it is just gorgeous! Go take a peek!

Life Changes

Well, I decided since I'm sitting here bored while I rest my injured knees ( I hurt them jogging too much ) that I would post about some changes in my life. My kids and I will be living here with my parents in Illinois permanently. My husband and I are now separated, but remain good friends which I am thankful for. It's one of those things that has been a long time coming and we will all be better off in the long run. So now, I no longer have my own house to decorate, but that's okay. I'm working on my room and it will eventually be very cozy once I get my pie safe and small farm table in there along with a few of my other favorite things from home. Good thing I'm not in much of a decorating mood anymore. Be sure to keep a look out because I may be putting a few things on here for sale soon. I'm also excited to be donating a bunch of my prims to my good friend Jamie from The Miller Homestead to redo her bedroom. Hopefully we will start working on her room after Christmas. Now I will just have to decorate my mom's and my friend's homes if I get the decorating bug :-) Now I think I'm going to change the name of my blog to CozyGirl instead of CozyCoop. Do you have any other cute new blog name suggestions for me? I am sooo excited to go see New Moon on Saturday I could just scream!!!! Anyone else going this weekend ? I hope you all are having a wonderful week!

Prim At Heart

• Just wanted to mention a new blog for you all to visit called Prim At Heart. Hope you will all head over to visit Stacy and maybe even become a follower. Hope everyone has a great week!

Bah Humbug !

Ya know what I really don't like this time of year ? When I hear people complaining "It's too early to decorate for Christmas" or "It's not even Thanksgiving yet, why is there Christmas stuff out already?" "We shouldn't forget about Thanksgiving and just go straight to Christmas " Why do people have to be so grouchy and whiney ? I think some people just feed off of other people and want something to complain about. I mean who made the rules about when we should decorate or not and why does decorating for Christmas early have to mean that you are ignoring Thanksgiving? Lighten up people and enjoy this wonderful season ! My sister said it perfectly the other day~ we like to decorate early and have it all done by Thanksgiving, so that on Thanksgiving day we can relax and be all set for the start of the Christmas season. Thanksgiving is like the opening day of the Holiday season. I mean even Santa is in the Thanksgiving parade right !? If you like to wait until after Thanksgiving then that's just fine, but if you want to do it early and enjoy it longer, then go ahead and do it ! Hurray for Christmas!

Cute Bells

Look at these cute bells that I found at Target yesterday! They are perfect for this little tree that I put up in my room. I found this flower pot and painted it cream. I love this clean look.