holiday summary

This year’s holiday decorations, in total: The Outside Lights: ST:TCT: The Regency Mantle: The Side-by-Side: The Built-In: The Display Case: The Holiday Table: It was a simple and easy holiday, exactly what we needed. May everyone’s new year bring good things.

under the wire

This was a rough but good year. Big projects and heavy schedules sit on the horizon and I’m working to clear the tedium of life prior to the chaos. I thought that included holiday decorations, but as Christmas neared neither of us wanted to wake up without a tree on Christmas, so I got to […]

dressing up the wexford

The glassware cases have gotten some attention for the holidays. I have been branching out into color flash Wexford for the collection.

and peacock makes three

And next up, the peacock tree: An impromptu tree topper: I made a fan tail out of peacock tale feather and sequin sprays. This is my crazy tree. I look at and think what a mess it is, but I absolutely love it!

unicorn tree: 100% gayer

I am late to my holiday decorating but hoping to catch up over the long weekend. Second tree up, but first one finished is the Unicorn Tree, now on a glittery rainbow tree: It doesn’t show well in photos, but the “needles” are thirty percent tinsel, giving a great sparkle as the viewer moves about. […]

my new widget

We are ramping up efforts to shake off the remaining dregs of post-pandemic sequestering at our cattywampus cottage. Chaos and sloth crept into our anti-social phase, and we are climbing our way back into an organized, charming home. One of the tiniest efforts toward that is my new folding board: Sheldon Cooper and SNL’s GAP […]

a wee bit cordial

I don’t bring home much Wexford these days. I do always look for it, mostly since I have the experience of finding at least one piece at every thrift store I enter, but I leave it behind because (this is hard for me to say) I have enough. *gasp* Our last holiday open house (pre-pandemic) […]

spotlight on lighting

Thanks to my sister’s nudge, I realize that five years ago, my husband and I were into the push to clean up and out of new home and get moved into it. On this day back then, I was working on the light fixtures, many of them original to the 1927 bungalow that is now […]

reflecting the past

I used to thrift to find things that fit my style. On occasion, I fit my style to things I find thrifting. Yesterday was such a moment: I have a small variety of light covers and reflectors, but I don’t recall having seen any so large or so specifically not holiday themed as these. I […]

strutting like a peacock

The final tree is up. Number four in this year’s set: the peacock tree. The teal tree started its life with us two years ago as the first incarnation of what has become the unicorn tree. It sat out last year, the pandemic preempting any plans for a holiday open house, but knowing it would […]