a pastel dream ◊ Untitled ◊ kitty in distress ◊ Thoughts of Paris
- Cute trays: Brunch, Drinks, Served
- Pretty Instagram feed: Cabin and Cottage I love the soothing palette (and you know I'm all about the linens)
- As we eeeeease into Christmas decorating (ahem) this candle truly smells like fresh cut Christmas trees. I do feature candles a lot in this series, don't I? It's a fairly inexpensive way to set a mood. We haven't done a fresh cut tree in a couple of years because of the cats and this candle makes it at least smell like we have one
- Wait, what? Howard's End has been redone as a series? I'm not sure how I feel about this because I loved the Merchant Ivory adaptation so much but I'm willing to give it a watch
Happy day after Thanksgiving (for those who celebrate). I do like it when Thanksgiving falls earlier in November. Less of a panic about getting ready for Christmas.
We received a letter from our city that our house is on the Holiday Lights Tour route. We have four trolleys that are normally used for wine tasting tours but in December they use them to take people on a tour of the all the holiday decorations. The city asks politely if we wouldn't mind participating by doing a light display on our house. So the pressure is on. To be honest our efforts in years past have been kind of feeble. It's time to step up our game.
The question is all white or colorful? Decisions decisions…
I just ordered white icicle lights that are snowflakes. Icicle lights never hang straight enough for me, but if they are snowflakes, the random aspect won’t bother me. Wayfair has them on sale right now and free shipping. We will hang them on our back porch railing, which can be seen from the street behind us.
We need to figure out something. We have a ton of outdoor lights but our house is so long that we dont have enough of any one kind to do it properly.
What if you made a three ply twirl of green garland and two strands of lights, off-setting the types of lights? The mixture would be like yarn with each ply a different color, phasing in and out on different points in their individual color schemes. I think it could be very pretty.
Im even seeing lights now that can switch from all white to colored with a remote. Maybe thats the way to go!