apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Um, I don't think any of these should be considered guilty pleasures aside from karate chopping pillows. It is all about context. In fact, I might even like a karate chopped pillow in a martial arts studio. That would make me smile.

Haha... I thought this post was about my mom with that Department 56 house photo before the cut. Apparently, I'm inheriting all 200 homes from the Dickens Village, The North Pole Series and Christmas in the City. No lie, she has too many to put out every Christmas.

i have a stuffed animal manatee. it's my fav animal & it's super soft. i hide it when people come over, but i use it as a bolster pillow sometimes. haha

@ tarynevelyn--that is so funny. I actually phoned my mom this morning to ask her the name brand of her christmas houses so I could find a photo for this post. She replied with "Department 56"

hahahahahahahaha Department 56....in HS I used to work at a garden center that sold those, people went NUTS over them, and they are so expensive!

Beth - Our mothers must be kindred spirits!

OK, I totally have that Scrooge house, no lie. I ONCE mentioned to my mom that they were kind of cute and POOF now I have a whole freaking "village" of them!
But seriously that list is ridiculous.

My Grandma works at a Hallmark Gold Crown store. Her classic Department 56 village comes out every Christmas. My mom loves them so much she actually requested to start collecting them. She is so proud of them that she leaves them out all year. I hope one of my siblings wants to inherit them, because I would put them all on eBay...

My mother (whom I love very much and has great taste) went through a phase of spray painting everything gold. Pinecones, leaves, branches, etc. We used to joke that one day she would spray paint my sister and I so we would match the decor.

I've always felt like a little girl when I browse the christmas village decor - imagination starts twinklin and everything. lol

I don't understand why most of these would make one feel guilty. Other than the shell-shaped shoap, er, soap.

@quietcal-
My mom still decorates her Christmas tree every year with the same spray-painted gold pinecones and gold beads!

I still have a teddy bear on my bed. Totally not "decor" - but he was the last toy my parents bought me and has gone everywhere I've gone ever since: summer camp, college, overseas and back. My mom and I used to have a whole fantasy game we played with him in which he liked twinkies and "P" words. Too many treasured memories there to get rid of him regardless of what his presence does to my decorating style!