Over the next few days, I'm going to take you on a magical mystery tour of the holiday decor in some of the rooms in my house. Today is the kitchen. Or as I like to call it - the thrifty, vintage Christmas fun-o-rama! I kept the table rather simple this year. Santa was an...
My Holiday Front Porch
I kept going back and forth on whether I was going to use blow molds on my front porch this year or not. On one hand, they are fun and vintage looking. On the other hand, they can be a tad bit tacky if not done correctly. Originally, I was thinking of the big old...
Tinsel Hanging 101
For those of you born after 1970, I thought I'd share my technique for hanging tinsel, also known as icicles, on the Christmas tree. First, look all over creation for a store that actually sells tinsel. Not as easy to find as one would think. It's almost like tinsel isn't a popular Christmas tree adornment...
Christmas Bokeh
While you have your tree up you have the perfect opportunity to play around with taking photos with a cool bokeh effect. Bokeh refers to the blurry globes of light in the background of a photo, in this case from the Christmas tree, and it just goes hand in hand with Christmas photos. Canon 50mm...
Vintage Shiny Brites
I bet you were expecting to see a tree decorated with Shiny Brites. All in good time. Should it really take a week to decorate a skinny, 5 foot tree? But this photo was taken when I was just starting the tree decorating process the other day. I had just unwrapped all my ornaments and...
Kitchen Tour
The final part of the tour is the kitchen area. Because let's face it, I'll never have my bedrooms or bathroom clean enough to be photographed. Just not happening. And while we're at it, let's talk about cleanliness. I hope you realize that I super duper cleaned and organized my house before taking photos. Just...
Dining Room Tour
Second part of the house tour is the dining room. This should be a short post, because the room is pretty darn small. There was some question when we bought the house what we would use this room for. My husband wanted to use it as a home office, I wanted to use it as...
Living Room Tour
As promised, this is Part 1 of a mini home tour. I've been knee deep in holiday decor this week, so the next time you see the living room it will look a little different. But this is the normal everyday, non-holiday look. I describe my decorating style as a combination of industrial, Pottery Barn-ish,...
Printable Rudolph Christmas Sheet Music
I found this old Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer sheet music while out shopping at the antique mall the other day and picked it up for a song. Get it . . . song. I crack myself up sometimes. One of the dealers at the mall had a lot of vintage Christmas stuff for very, very...