For this months newsletter, I have researched the back issues of my favourite magazines to find you some creative and fun ways to perk up your space—and just in time for Christmas! You can save them for January too as the living room will be looking lonely after the lights and glitter from the holiday get packed away!
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Well now I can't wait.. I love to let the decorations linger into January – and slowly take them away. The house can look so empty after the holidays..
no tree yet…
Vie
My tree(s) are up since Sunday!!
No tree up here yet. We're probably the only ones in our area who don't put up Christmas decorations until December! But we will be putting up everything this weekend and I can't wait. In the meantime, we've been working on DIY home improvement projects and still have things we need to finish before this weekend — like the mantle that I need to paint. But I can't wait to see what the tree looks like with our new white slipcovered sofas.
And I really can't wait to read your latest newsletter!
To morrow, i will put up the christmas windows in y showroom…as for the tree, it will have to wait for a while.
Maria, Can I tell you how much I love your blog. I so look forward to your posts and they are always chalk full of fascinating information:) And a genius way to get people to sign up for your newsletter, may have to steal that one:) Thanks for such a wonderful blog.
You have been hard at work! Can't wait to see the articles. Yes, our tree is up 🙂 Blogged about the ol mantel today too.
xo,
cristin
I can not wait for you to do Christmas this month. So many ideas. I just know it will be delicious. That is a really cool wreath, so different in color and texture. Love it.
My decorations are down from the attic. And the bins are stacked up in the living room. That's as far as I've gotten.
It's snowing today so that should inspire me to get moving.
Can't wait for the newsletter.
Trees up and decorated…
out side wreath is up and lit… inside wreaths are still in the box…
hope to get all my christmas shopping finished this coming weekend, fingers crossed…
if I get it all wrapped and bowed by Sunday, it will be amazing
then I can start on my famous cookies…
YES!!! Mt TREES are up: the BIG one in the living room, a small undecorated one in the rec room (my hubby's domain and he likes it like that), a wall tree (that I posted about today) in the dining room, a twig tree on the bridge upstairs and my KITCHEN tree that I LOOOOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can't wait for your tips, Maria! My tree is up but there is still some decorating to be done!!
our tree is up 🙂 Can't wait to see the articles.
Hi Maria, Yes! Hallelujah! My tree is up with a little help from two teenage boys who hung our silver beed garland in completely straight concentric circles. I got home to find this very geometric design on the tree, which they put up, and the lights (one meager set)already in place.
Oh my! I just didn't have the heart to say anything but, "How lovely, boys!" Thanks!" My daughter and I finished the decorating later in the day, but I have to say that every time I walk by I can't decide whether to wince or laugh. Ha!
BTW, I found some good yellow fabric for pillows for the couch and we bought new drapes (verigated shades of cocoa)! I can't wait for January. It will be the perfect time for a bright splash of color…that ISN'T red or green. :o)
Looking forward to your tips very much!
xo
Donna @ Comin' Home
Your newsletter sounds full of tasty decorating tidbits, Maria – and just in time for Christmas AND a penny pinching January! It's so true how lonely the house looks once the tree and its lights are down. Speaking of which, I have blocked off my afternoon tomorrow to put up our avant-garde metal tree and I'm excited!
Angie
xoxo
Loved the newsletter, thanks for the wonderful ideas! Regarding the picture of the gray/brown? door, I must know the paint color and cover my bright coral front door in it!
Hi BB,
I would say that door is somewhere in the realm of Kendall Charcoal HC-166,
Happy Painting!
Maria
Thanks, Maria! (It should go alright with a muted green siding and red bricks, right? I'm over my loud but fabulous orange-red door.)
The problem with recession tips is it's always d.i.y. and painting, sanding, I hate so now I really do understand why I put up with Noahs' decorating my mantle and Christmas tree. . . just plain stinkin' lazy . .
Hi BB, Yes I think so. Maria