Cozy Christmas Dining Nook

We have a little area at the end of our family room that provides a cozy nook for our family to enjoy "everyday" meals together.    On holidays and special occasions,   we move our guests to the formal dining area and the nook is normally used as the kids table.

I have our nook decorated in a Farmhouse Christmas theme that was inspired by fabric I found at Hobby Lobby a few weeks ago.    I bought several yards of it for the kitchen and used a strip of it to make a runner for the table in the family room. 
   I'll share a photo of the fabric further down in my post.

I love all the light that comes into the dining area from the large south facing window,   but it really creates a lot of glare .......and makes this room very hard to photograph!

Since we eat most of our meals here,   I like to keep the centerpiece simple.     Usually we fill our plates in the kitchen and eat here.   But occasionally I remove the centerpiece and runner so we can eat family style at the table.

As promised,   here is a close up of the fabric I used to make the runner.......isn't it adorbs!     I have plenty left to do several projects in the kitchen when I decorate it for Christmas in a couple of weeks.

I ordered a new apron from Amazon for my dress form......

I didn't want her to have an apron that had a Christmas theme......

So,   I ordered one that she can use year round,  but had a Christmas feel to it.

I added some pink Poinsettia's to the existing floral design in the scale that hangs between the kitchen and family room.

I took photo's of the cows on the table runner fabric......edited them....printed them on my home printer.....then framed them.

If you look closely,   you can see that the cow print looks like it is on corrugated metal!

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