Winter Entry and Dining Room Table Decor (& Blogger Question)

Happy Wednesday friends!!  My kids go back to school today and if you were here you would see me doing a little happy dance!  Honestly, I love them to pieces, but it's time!  Can anyone relate?


Today I wanted to show you my little spaces when you walk in the front door, all dressed up for winter.

I re-purposed some things I had out for fall and Christmas, but was going for more of a winter-y/January theme.

Aren't these guys the cutest?  I found them at a little consignment store and almost left them there.  I'm really glad I changed my mind.  

I also worked on a new arrangement for the dining room table.  I'm trying to use real plants more instead of fake greenery, so when I saw these 2 ferns and and an ivy on clearance at Lowe's for $1.25 each, I snatched them up!  I knew I wanted my clam shell to be a big statement piece on the table, so I loaded up the plants in some old containers and covered everything with moss.  

I had all of the supplies on hand, so I got a new arrangement for $3.75-can't hardly beat that!

Finally, is anyone having trouble with Blogger lately?  When uploading pictures, I can upload several and then add the one I've chosen, but when I go back to the picture icon to insert another all of the pictures I already uploaded are gone.  I'm having to upload and insert one at a time.  Also, when I want to join a link party and choose "crop" for my image, I can't crop it.  I just have to choose a picture and I don't have any control on what the thumbnail will look like.  Everything was fine until about a week ago and then these problems started.  Any thoughts?