Christmas Home Tour and $300 Giveaway: A Relatively Minimalist Holiday

If you look back at my older Christmas tours (which you can do here, here, and here), you’ll find a whole lot of color. Lots of red and green and also a whole mess of blue. So I don’t know quite what happened this year, but I ended up with fairly neutral, minimalist holiday decorations. I mean, at least minimalist … Continue reading

How to Make GIANT Paper Cone Trees for Christmas

Before I take off to celebrate this freakishly early Thanksgiving… (aside: I know it’s popular to hate on daylight savings time these days; I actually LIKE DST, but the calendar change I’d like to propose is that Thanksgiving always be on the last Thursday of the month instead of the fourth one, so as to prevent the kind of sneaky behavior we’re … Continue reading

Covered Porch with Navy Blue Ceiling: Updates!

Let us take advantage of this ridiculously brief interval between Halloween and Christmas to talk a little about my porch. Because I have a very frightening public service announcement to make: Thanksgiving is only two weeks away!  RIGHT?! I realized this on Sunday, and it really freaked me out. I don’t have the Halloween stuff put away yet. In fact, I … Continue reading