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Incorporating Photos into Holiday Decor

While we like to display family photos year round in our home, we don't like to overload our home with them. However, during the holidays we tend to be a bit more sentimental as we keep looking for w...

Creative, Clutter-Free Ideas For Displaying Christmas Cards

It's begun! Our first Christmas card arrived in the mail yesterday and hence commenced the welcomed onslaught of mail-carried holiday cheer. We vowed last year— after seeing our entry table fal...

Holiday Traditions: When Do You Bring Home Your Christmas Tree?

We seem to have some especially spirited neighbors when it comes to Christmas decorating. As soon as the sun set on Thanksgiving, our festive neighbors flicked on their glittery myriad of flickering ...

Ten Easy, Not Cheesy, Ways to Enliven A Thanksgiving Table

Although turkey decor hit the retail world months ago, I've been holding out for the perfect — non-cheesy!— harvest pieces, only to find myself two days before the big feast with nothing ...

How Do You Celebrate When It's Just You … or Maybe Two?

I'm sure most of us have thought it at least once while the turkey was being carved. "Wouldn't it be great if I could spend one holiday without my crazy family?" But unless you've experienced flyi...

Ornament Centerpiece by Crate & Barrel

You may be planning your Thanksgiving decorations, but I'm already mapping out my Christmas glitz. Here's one of my 2009 must-haves: a mini-version of Crate & Barrel's window ornament display. I...

Roundup: Holiday Decor that Transcends the Season

We love this time of year for the wealth of decorative accessories that pop up in all our favorite stores. In recent years, we've tried to refocus our holiday decor away from Santas and snowmen to ...

Where to Wear Your Wreath

Wreaths can be hung in more places than just doors. This fall and holiday season, try a wreath on a window, over a mirror, in place of a print, or another one of these ten options......

Pouf! Cube! Stool! For Small-Space Seating
Roundup

Entertaining season means guests. And guests need somewhere to sit. But if you're space is small like ours, then maybe you're looking for stow-able folding chairs, or one or two stools or poufs. ...

Inspiration Gallery: Asparagus Centerpeices

With entertaining season on the horizon, we're looking for fun alternatives to the standard floral display centerpiece. Here are a few smile-worthy ideas straight made from one of our favorite produc...

Help Us Make the Ultimate Cocktail Party Playlist

Music is the most important part of entertaining, no? But it's hard to find the right music for entertaining: to keep the mood upbeat but not drown out conversation. Let's put our heads together for...

Holiday Weekends: Extra Time for R&R or DIY?

Photo courtesy of Raw Studio As we get ready for the official start of the summer season (at the pools and beaches at least), we're stuck by how different people view long weekends. Work colleagues...