My Christmas Family Room

Hey everyone!  Well, I said I'd be back soon to share how I decorated our family room and here I am!  I love decorating this room, because it's where we spend so much of our time.  Our family room is wide open to our kitchen and breakfast rooms which means I get to see everything from my usual spot in the kitchen!  It is, of course, also where we watch TV, so there is the ever-present wall-mounted machine and all it's components.....lol!  I'm really not complaining here, because I truly enjoy having some TV time, too!  I'm just very happy that the TV has its own spot and is separate from the fireplace and mantel.   Until we bought our current home, it had been 18 years since we had a fireplace; and we've never had one with a mantel -- can you believe that?  So, even though the mantel is shallow, I truly enjoy decorating it!  So let's take a look.

And The Winner IS..........

Hey everyone!  I hope you've been having a lovely weekend!  Well, it's time to announce the winner of my "True Food" Cookbook Give-Away!  My thanks to all of you who entered, old friends and new ones alike.  Ya'll are truly wonderful and appreciate each and everyone of you.  Enough stalling, already, right?  And the winner is.........

Final Day for My GIVE-AWAY!

Hey everyone!  Can you believe it is December 1st?  Do you know what that means?  A winner will be chosen for my cookbook give-away!  I am reposting the original post to give everyone one last chance to enter.  A name will be chosen after 9 pm (MST), and the winner announced Sunday morning.  Good luck to everyone!  Here is the original post:

Hey everyone!   I'm very excited today to announce my very first Give-Away!  I've been on the "receiving" end of several give-aways, so I decided it was time to give back.  You may remember, a month or so ago, I shared the exciting news about this new cookbook.......

This cookbook is all about cooking with high quality ingredients and simple preparations, cooking seasonally, and avoiding the crutches of sugar, salt and fat.  It is not a "health" cookbook, but rather a "good food" book filled with great-tasting recipes that just happen to be good for you!

It has been on Amazon's Best Seller List as well as The New York Times Best Seller List. 

It is already into its second printing.

This handsome young man is our son.  He is the one behind all the recipes.  He spent over a year in the "test kitchen," creating, tweaking and taste-testing every recipe for this cookbook.

Well, guess what?

I HAVE ONE OF THESE BEAUTIFUL COOKBOOKS FOR ONE OF YOU!

I am so excited about giving away one of these books to one of my lovely

and sweet fellow bloggers.  The rules are simple:

1.  You must follow my blog and leave me a comment that you are following,

     for one chance to win.

2.  Share this give-away on your blog and leave me a comment to that regard, 

     for a second chance.

Simple, right?  A winner will be chosen at random and announced on December 1st!

I truly hope you will participate in this give-away and "Good Luck to One & All!"

~Carol~