Christmas Decorating for the Overwhelmed

Copper shelves decorated for Christmas

I just went back and looked through a couple of old posts from back in the days when I did full-fledged Christmas house tour blog hops, and…this isn’t a post like that. But it is a post about Christmas decorations! The nice thing about having done all those tours for all those years is that I now have a pretty … Continue reading

Christmas Village Countdown/Advent Calendar and a Forest of Target Trees

Just a few days ago I was dragging my feet about Christmas decorating and not feeling the least bit excited about it. But I forced myself to take down the Halloween stuff from the foyer dresser, and that helped a little. Then I thought, “maybe something…woodlandy?” to myself, and I started to get a wee bit excited. And then I … Continue reading

House Plans 2021 Edition (plus some Christmas pictures)

Hey Happy New Year! Thank goodness it’s off to such a boring start that promises a happy, drama-free year, right?! Heh. I’m kidding. But here in our house, things are indeed off to a boring and drama free start. We’ve just kind of been sitting around playing video games and reading and doing puzzles, in fact, and having a hard … Continue reading

Return of the Travel Christmas Tree + a New Rug from Rifle Paper Co.

This window in our library used to be the spot where we put a white Christmas tree every year, generally with blue ornaments, sometimes even blue dinosaurs: And this was lovely, but, over time, the white Christmas tree (a thrift find) got sadder and sadder looking, and it got harder and harder to rearrange things to make the gaps left by … Continue reading

2020 Christmas Tour: This Year I Like Green

copper shelves decorated for Christmas

Affiliate links ahead! If you buy something after following one of my links, I get a small commission but you don’t pay anything extra. Thanks for supporting Boxy Colonial!  This is the first year in a long, long time that I haven’t joined in with any blog hop type Christmas tour posts, and I feel kind of sad about it. … Continue reading

No-sew DIY Chicken Costume

Cluck, cluck, cluck! I know that Halloween already happened. But is there really ANY time of year that’s not the right time of year to dress up like a chicken?! Anyway, I didn’t get this post up in time, but if I wait until next year, I’ll never remember to write it–so here it is, and if you found this … Continue reading

Christmas in the Kitchen

setting up a hot chocolate cocoa station for the holidays

Saturday afternoon, I was all ready to make a trip to Target to check out Christmas stuff then come home to finish decorating the kitchen in preparation for this post. Only I couldn’t find my keys. I spent ALL AFTERNOON searching for them everywhere I could think of. They weren’t under any couch cushions. They weren’t in the ignition. They … Continue reading

Seasonal Decorating for the Perpetually Overwhelmed: A Little Bit of Halloween

There was a time, not so very long ago, when I felt like I had enough time to concoct elaborate Halloween decorating themes every year and spend hours creating elaborate crafts and whatnot. I have not felt like that for the past couple of years. Kids in high school with a gazillion different activities, Abe getting old enough to want … Continue reading

Happy New Year! And Christmas 2018

Happy New Year, everyone! I have two songs on my Christmas playlist that express opposite sentiments about looking back at the year that’s coming to a close. Reliant K’s “Boxing Day” tells us, “we’ve had a good year; now let’s have another,” while Queen muses in “Thank God it’s Christmas,” “Oh my friends, it’s been a long hard year” and … Continue reading

A Cozy Christmas Family Room

Post contains affiliate links; thanks for supporting Boxy Colonial! Our den is my very favorite room to decorate for Christmas (and, indeed, it might be my very favorite room, period). The dark colors are made for winter, the mantel looks much happier with stockings, and nothing says Christmas quite like an enormous green shelf begging to be filled with manger … Continue reading