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Aqua Blues on the Mantel

November 30, 2010

I’mmmmm dreaming of a bluuuuue Christmas. OK, not really that kind of blue. I don’t want to feel blue, but with bringing some aqua blue into the living room this year, it only seemed fitting that I should add some pretty blue to the mantel for Christmas as well. And I kept it much simpler [...]

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Making an Easy Mailbox Swag

December 17, 2009

L ast year, I showed you all how I love to put fresh greens on the mailbox. They’re pretty, they are free, and they just look so much better to me than the fake ones do. Besides, I love free! I stopped by a local tree lot and picked up a few branches of their [...]

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Making a Fabu-licious Tree Topper!

December 15, 2009

With a feature in the Birmingham News on Thanksgiving weekend for putting together a WOW tree topper, I’m scanning the pic (excuse the poor scan), but not the complete article and the pic wasn’t in color anyway. But, you will all get a first hand look at how to put a big tree topper together….all [...]

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Christmas Party at our House

December 13, 2009

Celebrating Christmas with friends is the best thing and this year we had a party at our house, inviting some couple friends over for dinner. When you spend hours decorating your house for Christmas, it’s nice to share it with others and with a total of 13 of us, it was a fun evening. [...]

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A Christmas Tree Urn

December 12, 2009

Last year, I put my big tree in a garden urn that I had picked up yardsaling. It’s one of those plastic urns and it was an OK color, but this year I decided to make it officially my Christmas urn and painted it a bronzey color to better go with my tree and Christmas [...]

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Home for the Holidays 2009

December 10, 2009

Merry Christmas! I’m SO glad you are here. I can’t wait to celebrate with all of you. Come on in the house and let’s visit a little while. I’ve been waiting for today when all of you would drop by. The arrangement on the front door is new this year. My friend, Cindi, who helped [...]

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Making an Ornament Wreath

December 8, 2009

Right after Christmas last year, I picked up all these glass balls in the 1/2 off sales and decided to do a wreath just like Eddie Ross showed during the Christmas season last year. I showed it to you here briefly, but I didn’t take the time to show you how easy it was to [...]

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Lime and Red in the Kitchen

December 6, 2009

You all know by now how much I enjoy decorating for Christmas and in the kitchen with green and red already in here, adding the punches of lime green and red this time of year is just icing on the cake. Green and red really pops off the beadboard I added to the back of [...]

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A Wintery Dining Room

December 4, 2009

Today, I’m joining Marty for her cloche party and since I only have one cloche and it’s in the dining room and since I decorated in there for Christmas, we’ll go ahead and look around at everything. Hope you don’t mind. I sometimes play tug of war with myself, since part of me loves the [...]

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Christmas at my Sister’s

December 3, 2009

Both my sister and I have always had a love for Christmas and we bring out all the bling for this special Holiday. If you think that I have a lot of Christmas decor, wait til you get a load of my sister’s house. She has me beat. By a few miles. This is by [...]

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Beefing up those Plain Garlands

December 2, 2009

Most of us have bought that plain, prelit garland that all the craft stores carry. The problem is, it is very skimpy and not all that pretty. But, there’s an easy way to beef it up and make it look so much more expensive, just by adding a few greenery picks to it. Then, when [...]

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Christmas Floating Candles

November 23, 2009

One of the easiest things to do for a Holiday centerpiece or tablescape is floating candles. I mentioned how easy these are to put together and when I show you, you’ll understand JUST how easy they are. Nothing to them. I’ve had my candle cylinders for a few years now, in 3 different sizes. But, [...]

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Holiday House: Part III

November 22, 2009

Continuing the tour through the Holiday House, we’ll start in one of the guest baths. I love this idea of adding a message on a mirror, how cute is this? And a wonderful Christmas greeting. Someone asked if this is vinyl letters and yes, it was. This tree was adorned in all purses and hats. [...]

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