I like to keep my seasonal decorations up for a while: I put sparkly winter garland up in early December, and don't take it down until February. This is part laziness, part thriftiness, and partly a love of looking at pretty things. If I'm going to the trouble to make or buy decorations, I want to live with them! This pretty, pretty pumpkin could keep me company all autumn long...
Handcut by the talented Esther Ramirez of Essimar, the Blue Pumpkin is an ethereal beauty. I love autumn decorations that have just a hint of spookiness or otherness, without being in-your-face spooky. This piece feels like autumn and, yes, Halloween: morning fog, changing light, skeleton leaves, shadows and glows. I would hang it on the wall at the beginning of September, and gaze at it everyday until after Thanksgiving. Relaxing and efficient holiday decor!
Images: Essimar
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i love this!
I totally agree with you! I have two little trees for my mantle that I put up for Christmas and leave up through January, because they just remind me of winter. And even though it's in the 90s where I live right now, I have some fall decorations out to celebrate the new season.
Bah humbug. For the life of me, I cannot get into seasonal decor save white lights for winter and a tree for Christmas because I am < gloat >lucky enough to have a drop-dead amazing collection of handblown glass ornaments. < / gloat > But Easter rabbits, pumpkins, flags, turkeys, lephrachauns and the like just leave me flat.
Ok, yes, I can get excited about fresh seasonal flowers.
I guess I just don't have the right gene or something. It just seems like a odd thing to put money into, like commemorative plates.
What's the difference between an oddball collection of, say, porcelain frogs, and seasonal tchotchkes? I can support the frogs, too, but not the ghouls.