Yes. I have a ton of Winterberry dishes, casseroles, and accessory pieces. In November, I put all the Fiesta dishes away and put all Winterberry in the kitchen (I do keep my red Fiesta pieces out because it's such a nice contrast with the Winterberry; I use both red Fiesta and Winterberry casseroles and serving dishes on the Christmas table. The China cabinet looks very festive with the Winterberry and small white lights throughout the shelves. Red runners on the hutch (the hutch is well over 100 years old; it was my great-grandmother's) and more Winterberry. I have Christmas and cookie cookbooks on the very top of the hutch with my grandmother's very old, red flour tin and a red basket.
Winterberry candleholders on one side of the kitchen counter. BELIEVE blocks and a Santa on the other side of the counter. We have a gorgeous brass sleigh and deer above the end cabinets in the kitchen. The Winterberry sleigh is on the other side. A string of pastel lights turn on as they're plugged in a switch on the wall....they rather look like Northern Lights showing from the ceiling. Also above the cabinets is a pretty holiday garland (so far the cats haven't gotten up there to play with it; they did last year). Pretty Currier & Ives salt and pepper shakers sit on the wooden stove hood. A pretty lined wicker basket of vintage cookie cutters (also my grandmother's) sits on the kitchen counter.
The chandelier above the sink is decorated in greens and balls. Candles on the sill of the large window at the sink. The two corner cabinets go up to the ceiling and each cabinet is decorated with a long evergreen swag with a gold ribbon and one gold ball.
There's a large picture of Santa on the wall behind the kitchen table. That wall is painted in Cranberry Wall and it's the perfect Christmas red for the hutch and the picture.
We have a large white tree in the kitchen next to the French doors. It has blue and white lights and I decorate it with blue balls. That's it. Nothing else. When I was a child, my mother always had a white tree for Christmas and I hated that thing. But several years ago, I decided I want a white tree in my kitchen. And so the Tacky White Tree was born. I have a pretty blue tree skirt for the tree. The tree is white, the tree is tacky, the tree is mine. And I love it. (DH calls it the PennState tree.)
The chandelier above the kitchen table is decorated in greens. Two gorgeous Christmas balls (with cats) hang from the chandelier. Always a pretty Christmas tablecloth on the table (but no centerpiece because of the cats in the house....that's just asking for trouble). I do have a pretty centerpiece for the Christmas Dinner table, but it stays in the basement when we're not using it....again because of the cats.
On New Year's Day or when we take down the Christmas decorations, I also take down the decorations in the kitchen. The Winterberry stays out until around the end of February or so. And then I put away the holiday tablecloths and keep a pretty winter tablecloth on the table. By the end of February, I'm tired of winter and ready to welcome spring, even though I know warm weather is still a couple months away.
It takes a week or so to have the kitchen "dressed" for the Christmas holidays. It takes me a full day to unpack the Winterberry things that I've collected. I enjoy cooking and baking and having a kitchen that shows my love for Christmas is important to me. I'm over 60 and I don't know how long I can keep decorating, but I do enjoy my holiday kitchen.
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