Gilmore is a 27 year old who loves decorating and is a self-proclaimed expert on just about everything. At least she likes to think so. Copyright 2011. Consult a design professional before beginning your project.I love it when holiday decor fits in with the rest of the house. Since I put up the decorations at Thanksgiving & take them down on New Years, that’s a month & a half of living with the decor, so it better fit my style. Find out Your Holiday Decorating Style by taking my new quiz. The results contain great products & ideas. My result was contemporary. This usually isn’t how I decorate, but around the holidays, I think less is more. What was your result? Leave a comment & let me know.
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Our Christmas tree is a hodge podge of ornaments collected over the years & made at school. I love this because every ornament has a story & means something to us. Sometimes, I start to get envious of the glittery matching ornaments & ribbon wrapped trees. However, I still wanted to keep all the ornaments & memories. So we just tied bows out of raffia & it works great with my mom’s country house. This is a really inexpensive way (mere pennies) to fill in the holes or gaps in the tree, plus it lends continuity & you get to keep all your cute ornaments.
We are a two tree family. We have the regular big tree with all the ornaments & this is where we keep the presents. Then we have a smaller tree we call the angel tree. Every year we get a new angel ornament to remember my sister who passed away. If I could only load my car with possessions, the angel ornaments would be one of the first things to come with me. It is a way to remember without being sad & to remind us of the true meaning of Christmas: religion, family & love. Works for me!
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You know when you find a fly in your soup, you don’t really feel like eating soup again anytime soon, if ever? So is the case with HGTV’s new show “24 Hour Design”. The concept is fine, 10 hours to redo a room . It’s been done before, & better, but that isn’t enough to turn my stomach. The fly in the soup is the designer Angelo Surmelis. He’s cute, his designs are pretty good, & he interacts well with everyone else & has great energy. The catch: he used to be on a show called “Clean Sweep” which was the bane of the decorating show world. So maybe “Clean Sweep” is the real fly in the soup. Either way, “24 Hour Design” makes me sick to my stomach.
