Archive for December, 2009
Decorative Vases
There are several ways to beautify one’s home without hiring an interior designer. You can repaint your walls, rearrange your furniture, change your room lights, or increase your adornments. If you want to add decor to your living room or patio, an excellent and classy piece would be a vase.
Decorative vases are beautiful upright containers that come in varied designs, shapes and colors. They bring character and appeal to a room and can be big and stout, light and dainty, or medium-sized with or without handles. Designs on vases can be common or exotic such as the ones that originate from Asia and Africa. The majority of decorative vases are made of porcelain, crystal or glass, but there are also terracotta vases that are great outdoors.
Help!
What do you do when you have a need that you simply can’t meet. Just crying out, “Help!” won’t fix it. You need a tool kit. In our house there are about five tool kits and multiple tools to fix any kind of need a tool will fix. That is good when the people who know what to do with the tools are around. That set me to thinking. We would have been in a bad way several times had we not had the proper tool to fix something. But what about other kinds of needs? For the needs of a wound like a scraped knee, you need bandages and ointment. For food that doesn’t taste right, you might just need salt in a shaker. When you spill a terrible mess on the floor, you need a mop and a mop bucket. When your needs are spiritual, you need a Bible and prayer. The answer to my question is be prepared. Make a list. What need might you have that you are not prepared to meet? You may not be able to take care of every need that will arise, but you will be closer than if you had not planned.
Lighting up a Room
Happy people light up a room. Beautiful furniture lights up a room. Beautiful lamps light up a room - literally. Today I am thinking of my granddaughter. She likes dolphins and has some pretty and some interesting items in her room. I found a beautiful dolphin table that would go so well with her decorations, but it takes up more space. It is a dolphin accent table. Maybe when she has her own house, she will still like dolphins and there will be room for that table. Anyway, I will keep it in mind. We have a nice accent table that we bought on a trip to Branson, Missouri. It has been moved around quite a bit and still looks new. It is a wooden table with geese hand painted on it. It will always be one of my favorite items and is easy to fit in most any room. The drop-leaf sides makes it fit easily wherever we need to put it. That is enough dreaming about pretty tables. Enjoy the holidays!
Sailing the Rolling Sea
Everyone dreams of something. Maybe of when they lived somewhere else that they loved. Maybe of their childhood days and the carefree life of childhood. Maybe of a job where everything goes right. Maybe of sailing on the open sea. That must have been where a ship in a bottle was invented. When you read books about long ago and the dangers and wonders of sailing the “bounding main,” you see sailors with time on their hands between voyages. Wouldn’t between voyages have been the perfect time for someone to come up with the idea of building a boat in a bottle? How intricate the pieces would have to be. And so much time would be involved in putting it all together. If you know the story of how this all started, you might want to share it. Maybe everyone except me does know. Oh well, I can contemplate the ship in the bottle and wonder. That is fun, too.
Falling Asleep
Does a waterfall put you to sleep? In our camping days we were always glad to be where we could hear a waterfall. It really can put you to sleep. Our grandson has a tabletop water fountain in his room that makes a splashing sound. He goes to sleep by that sound. Right now, however, he is at college without the water fountain. I guess he gets so tired he just falls asleep. Anyway, a water fountain can make an enjoyable sound that many people like to hear.
Water fountains are also an enjoyable item to use to decorate indoors or out. If you have an indoor fountain, you can turn it on when you want and enjoy the sight and sound. Outdoor fountains can also be on or off. If you have one, enjoy it. If not, maybe you will want to consider it. Just put in the water, plug it in, turn it on and lay back. Just be sure to refrain from doing this just before it is time to go to work!
Clocks with Style
Modern clocks are undeserving of our time. They lack the rounded comfortable feeling that you get when you have a craftsman style clock in your home. A clock is such an important piece in a home precisely because it is such a looked for item.
The convenience of modern clocks can be an asset in the living room or dining room, but that convenience does not have to come by diminishing style. Modern clocks, especially digital clocks, cheapen a room to the point of ugliness. Get a decorative wall clock that expresses classic beauty in your home.