Posts Tagged ‘home decor’
A Place for Everything
Is your house full of things that you want to display, but you are not sure where to put them? We travel, we collect, and then we stash. We have many several small cabinets with doors on them. If you open those doors, you will see items we have bought and put away. Of course, we displayed them for a while, but now they have to wait their turn or wait until their season comes around.
People often have bookshelves or other cabinets that share places with books and knick knacks. A useful item for most any home is a curio cabine
t. It is a nice place to display items you have collected or have received as gifts. Enjoy your collectibles and your cabinets. They are often reminders of great places you have visited.
Somewhere Else
This time of year when we have a beautiful day now and then, even if we do not live in one of the warm states,we can dream of being in or taking a vacation to one of the warm spots on our planet. Maybe an item in your house, like a clock
or a figurine or a picture, will make you think of that warm place and make you dream of going there. We have lived in warm places, like Texas, and cold places, like Alaska. They both have their wonderful places and times. Each member of the family has their favorite spot in those places and sometimes we dream of taking a vacation there and sometimes we actually get to do it.
Anyway, right now we are where we are and have what we have. We may curl up on the couch with a nice cup of coffee or hot chocolate and look at that item we bought in the place we would like to be again. We can dream even when we can’t travel.
Think Spring
Today does not seem like spring. However, the calender says we are several days into the season. We just need to feel like it is spring and it will be. Well, lets decide how to do that magical feat. Maybe we can concentrate on something and it will help.
Lately I have been admiring a certain vase. 
It looks like all the colors of the rainbow wrapped around a form. It is beautiful even without flowers. With some beautiful artificial flowers, it might help make the feeling of spring just leap into our heads. Maybe we can create the feeling of the season in our own living rooms, then it will spread throughout the house. When we step outside spring will be inside of us, even if the season is not apparent in our yards.
Its Getting Closer
That time is getting closer and closer. It is a wonderful time for Christians. It is where our hope begins to be known. At church we will study and hear again the wonderful resurrection news. Easter time once more.
It is a happy time for children. The Easter bunny, the candy, the toys, and surprises that they had not even thought about. Easter!! Kind of like Christmas in the spring for the kids. What fun to color eggs! What fun to hunt eggs! For the grown-ups there is all the discussions about Easters in the past when the weather was nice and those when the weather was bad. The “do you remember” talks. Easter baskets, cookies shaped like rabbits, little toys and sometimes a beautiful, plush Easter Bunny! Get out the Easter decorations, get a new one, put them up and enjoy the time!
Beautiful Light
The sun has been there all along, but we keep just seeing clouds and haze. Winter is upon us and this year seems to be a time of dreaming about spring and the beautiful sunlight it brings. The wind is blowing and the plants are leaning toward the south because of the north wind. We love spring and we love to see a snow in winter, but this year the snow has been here deeply and long. People who live where there is no snow would love to enjoy some of this we have had. The people who have snow every year are all probably ready to see it leave as are we who usually have at least one big snow and then it melts and we have rain and a few flurries of snow.
When we can’t have much sunlight or we have it and it is still cold outside, we can come inside and enjoy our beautiful lamps. We like to light the candle lamps and enjoy the scent of the candles we have placed there. We enjoy now more than ever the beautiful lights we have placed around the house. We can’t change the weather, but we can turn on the light that we like inside the home. Just enjoy it and look forward to spring. What a happy thought!
Pretty Holidays
Some holidays are just other days that we celebrate something. Other holidays are really pretty. Valentine’s Day is a pretty holiday. It will be here in a couple of weeks. The flowers that we give are pretty. The boxes of candy are pretty. The hearts
in all shapes, sizes, and forms are pretty. Maybe it is because these things usually have red as their dominant color.
Also romance is the theme and that is a dreamy, happy thought. If you are looking for just the right person, it is a happy time. If you have found that person, it is a happy time. If you have lived with the right person for lots of years, it is a happy time. If you just enjoy the holiday and like to enjoy it with friends, it is a happy time. Remember the Valentine’s Day parties when you were in school. It was fun to make the boxes for the cards and then get to enjoy the party with games and delicious treats. Think of red, enjoy seeing the decorations around you, even if you have to go to a store to see them, and sit back and absorb the season.
Where to Put a Table
Did you ever wonder where to place a table? We seem to have too many small tables. They are not really very small - bigger than end tables, but smaller than a dining table
. They are nice and we don’t want to sell them or give them away. We have managed to find a use for all of them, but every now and then we change our minds and decide to put one in a different place.
When we are thinking of these things, we just wish the tables were small and we could put them by a chair or in a corner and they would look pretty and be a nice place to lay your book when you were finished reading. I can remember when we did not have enough tables. We just needed a nice small table to make things look pretty. When we finally could afford just the right table, we were so excited when we found it at a store. Now people can find almost anything at a store or on the web and see exactly how much they need to save before they will be able to buy it. Oh well, these are the good new days.
Cruising
Cruises are fun. At least the one I went on was! It just made me decide that all cruises must be fun because we have some friends that go on lots of them and they never come back saying it was a bore. Anyway, it is a little different than being out on a lake in a fishing boat which I have done many times.
All of this brings us back to the good old days and I mean old days. The days of the clipper ships. Those ships are the ones that we see in bottles and as figurines. Those are in the stories and movies of pirates. They are the stuff of Long John Silver and Robinson Crusoe. I probably would not have enjoyed a cruise on one of those ships. However, since I am not getting ready to go on a cruise, nor do I ever expect to go again, I must admit that sometimes I enjoy the movies of those old days and have even read a book or two about them. Now I will just stare at my figurines, etc. and remember - the real and the stories.
Do You Like to Read?
It seems there is always a book around with a marker in it. A person in the family is reading it. Someone may have recommended the book or it just may have had an interesting title or we may have seen it advertised on TV. Anyway, it makes us appreciate the teachers who had a hand in teaching us to read. Sometimes everyone is reading a different book and there those books are with their cute or funny or plain bookmarks just waiting until we have time to pick them up and curl up on the sofa or somewhere quiet for a while.
One of the other things that goes with reading the books are the bookend
s we have. After all these years, we have bookends that fit best in the living room, some that are in a bedroom and some that are in the family room. It is fun to see the different ones we have collected over the years. Sometimes we just can’t part with a pair of bookends when a new set arrives and we just put them away for a while. Maybe someday we will get them all out and put the unused ones in a display case that will be just as special as the shelves with the used bookends!
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!