Cottage Style Party & Downton Abbey

I am obsessed with Downton Abbey 
and am thrilled that it is back on TV.

Woot!

I picture myself as Lady Mary…

with all her sadness,

and dowdy mourning clothes,

and all her sadness….

After the season premiere, I could see a glimmer of hope for Lady Mary's future.

While I also adore Lady Edith and love her modern girl life

(ditched at the alter! seeing a married man!),

it's Lady Mary I am most obsessed with.

Let's compare Lady Mary's life to mine.

Lady Mary eats at a huge formal candle lit table with more utensils than I would know what to do with:

I also eat at a candle lit dinner table but with less utensils, some times no utensils:

Lady Mary is waited on in her lovely bedroom:

My bedroom has kitties in it who do nothing:

Lady Mary likes to hang out with family in the drawing room:

My living room has cat beds in it:

Lady Mary has grounds maintained by grounds keepers:

I also have grounds maintained by grounds keepers:

Lady Mary has staff:

I also have staff:

I am almost living Lady Mary's life.

Are you?

Hello Friends!

Welcome to this weeks

Cottage Style Party!

#78

Welcome to this new year!

I spent my vacation week between Christmas and New Years sick with the flu.

Not exactly how I planned to spend it,

but I did take lots of naps and watch too much HGTV between the naps.

All is not lost as there is no such thing as too much HGTV!

So what have you been up to this past week?

Let's check!

What a lovely way to greet guests on this sleeping porch! 

This is a wonderful transition from the holidays to the drearier winter days of January.

I love that the evergreens are not tucked away just yet!

To see more of this charming sleeping porch, drop into to Butterfly and Bungalow blog!

I just love all the different shades of creamy whites in this photo! This is such a tiny part of an entire room filled with thrifty, chippy, creamy whites, tarnished silvers and burnished golds!

Stop in to Revi's blog to see all of her thrifty finds at Revisionary Life and check back on Thursdays for her new blog party THRIFTY LIFE THURSDAY!

I just can't give up all the holiday sparkle yet!

Don't you just love all the mercury glass and silvery sparkle here?

This is just a tiny bit of holiday cheer at Suzy's beach house. Please stop by and enjoy her lovely home at her blog  At The Farmhouse!

If you were featured, don't

forget your button!

 Deb

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