Showing posts with label paper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paper. Show all posts

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Alternative Christmas Trees

Well as the holidays are rapidly approaching, it is time to prepare yourself and your home for the festivities.  Every year, my husband and I head to our friends tree farm and pick out our beautiful tree for the year.  He cuts it down, we load it up in the back of the truck and drive it home, and I am up into the wee hours of the night decorating.  We usually do this on Black Friday because everyone else is out shopping, so the tree farm is usually not that busy.  I then spend the rest of the weekend hanging wreaths and decorating tables while my husband puts out the christmas lights.  That is all accompanied with wine and christmas carols:)  Well this year, things will be a little different as my husband and I just recently moved back to where we grew up.  The town is ironically named Santa Claus:)  We are living in my Mom's basement, not the ideal situtation, but it will do for now until our house sells.  So being that we are in the basement I do not feel that our traditional Christmas Tree is really necessary, however I LOVE CHRISTMAS and want to have some type of tree and decorations.  So I am on the hunt for an alternative tree.  Here are some ideas.......




Happy Holidays!


Friday, September 10, 2010

Niche

Do you have one of those homes where the builder decides to put niches in?  Or perhaps you wanted the niches.  Sometimes you have a beautiful peice to display so a niche is perfect, but other times you do not and you are constantly on the hunt on finding the perfect item for your niche.  Usually has to be skinny and tall and beautiful enough to be displayed on its own.  Here are some common displays of that.

I do not know about you, but these niches just are not doing it for me.  Are these peices really worth of their own spotlight?  Then you have the painted niche.

And the niche in a staircase.

To me, these are the worst, honestly...what are you supposed to do with this?
Well my best friend Lindsey has one of these, poor thing.  Lucky for her, hers is in her living room and makes for the perfect spot to put her TV.  Hmmmmm, who wants a TV that looks like it is stuck in a hole.  This "hole"  needed some sprucing up and Lindsey did that and then some.  Need not feel sorry for her any longer, feel JEALOUS!



With some wallpaper, will-power, adhesive and major measuring, Lindsey has made her niche LALALALALOVELY!!!