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Event Decorating With Tea Lights

Event Decorating With Tea Lights

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I love using candles in my décor and with a lot of events and holidays coming up I will be doing some unique decorating with candles. Currently I am decorating my home for summer and I found a few amazing ideas that you can use as well to get yourself in the summer mood. American Summer Holiday Decorating With Tea Lights   I really love this look. The red and white ribbons add some style to the blue tea lights. I think I would rather enhance this look and do red, white and blue Continue reading

How to Decorate Your Home for Easter

How to Decorate Your Home for Easter

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Whether you celebrate Easter as a religious or a secular holiday, there is no doubt that there is a lot to be thankful for when it comes around. It means spring has sprung – or will soon. It means that life is beginning anew; there is rebirth, regrowth, and a new chance; the days are longer and a bit warmer. Decorating your home for Easter is a great way to bring a bit of the sun in and to honor the holiday. Here are some wonderful ideas to try: Easter Egg Tree (courtesy of MarthaStewart) Continue reading

How to Decorate your Home for Christmas

How to Decorate your Home for Christmas

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The following is a guest post It is that time of the year which we all look forward to. Yes, Christmas is round the corner with its multitude of colors, twinkling stars and sound of jingles. And it is the time to decorate our home to welcome Santa and the forth coming New Year. But are you having troubling deciding how and from where to start decorating? Don’t worry. Here are a few ideas to pep up your home for the forthcoming holiday season. Outdoor: Christmas decoration should start Continue reading

Holiday Decorating Ideas for Your Patio

Holiday Decorating Ideas for Your Patio

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There is no reason why you have to keep your holiday decorations in your house. Branch out onto your patio. Even if it is not warm enough for you to spend time outside enjoying them, looking at them from the window produces the same holiday cheer as looking at decorations inside your home. What is special about decorating a patio is that you can incorporate the natural elements into the design. Here are just a few of the ways you can make your patio festive. During the Christmas season, no Continue reading

Christmas Creativity using Crystal Water Marbles

Christmas Creativity using Crystal Water Marbles

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The following is a guest post Christmas is a time when most people get excited about filling their homes with a lot of holiday decorations. This year, try getting a bit creative by adding crystal water marbles to your decor. These colorful marbles add an elegant flare to almost anything you use them with and are sure to stand out and please anyone who enters your home. Having people over this holiday? Impress them by hanging clear crystal water marbles on the trees in front of your home. What Continue reading

Unusual Christmas Lights

Unusual Christmas Lights

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While the shops might start decorating for Christmas in September most of us will leave it till late November or December. However, sometimes people have an unfortunate surprise going through the decoration box when we're faced with the prospect of untangling dated Christmas lights that have lost their charm and have started to look a little dull. With the advances in technology there has never been a wider range of beautiful Christmas lights available at affordable prices. So this year why Continue reading

Making Your Own Tinsel Wreath Made Easy

Making Your Own Tinsel Wreath Made Easy

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While you can’t always count on snow at Christmas, there are a number of things you can come to rely on. Presents, cards, quality family time, a well decorated tree, and miles and miles of fairy lights and tinsel. And while all these features really make your home shine during the festive season, it can be expensive to buy everything you need. If you’re looking for ways to cut costs – without cutting corners – this Christmas, you’re in luck. Here is a really quick and effective DIY Continue reading

Be Thankful with Your Decor

Be Thankful with Your Decor

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Here in the United States we will soon be celebrating Thanksgiving. This is a time filled with warmth, love and great décor! I have been searching the internet for some amazing thanksgiving decorating ideas and have decided to share a few of them with you. Today is a general decorating post, but check back soon for post on table centerpieces and other more specific Thanksgiving decorating ideas. Create a warm glow with candles and fall accessories for your Thanksgiving table. Use pumpkins to Continue reading

The Scariest Decoration for your Home for Halloween

The Scariest Decoration for your Home for Halloween

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The following is a guest post November is virtually here and which suggests taking out spider webs, pumpkins, hags brushs along with other Halloween home decorations to make your home's entry into the most scary in your area. Of course, Halloween is probably one of the best times to have some seriously wacky fun with terrifying decorations folk will remember for years. This vacation is thought to be one of the most fun and casual laid back of all vacations. It's an occasion where folks of any Continue reading

Easter Decorating With Gifts!

Easter Decorating With Gifts!

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Love decorating for Easter and spring, but don’t have a lot of money to spend this year. Do something different by decorating with your gifts. Using things like Easter Gift Baskets to fill your home with that great feel of Easter and spring is a great way to “kill two birds with one stone” Just make sure that the candy in the decorative basket can be eaten or fill it with something else that you already have like fruit, or silk flowers. Of course if your not going to use Easter Continue reading

Lighting up our Neighborhood with our Christmas Decorations

Guest post written by Harry Smith I guess that our house is the one in the neighborhood that takes the cake when it comes to Christmas lights. We've always loved putting them up as part of our decorations. So I don't' think that we're going to stop doing it any time soon either. I do like a little bit of variety every now and then so we do something different with them every few years. Most of the time we have to buy new strings of light anyway every few years because they rarely last for more Continue reading

Decorating Themes for The Holidays

Decorating Themes for The Holidays

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  How do you decorate for the holidays? Do you decorate with red and green? Maybe you like blue and white, or you're someone who likes lots of colors and shiny things. Whichever you choose you want a theme, something that will tie everything together and make it one cohesive design. The following are a few ideas to help you keep your interior design and holiday decorating stylish and uniform. Snowmen Winter doesn't just mean Christmas, New Year's, Hanukkah and other holidays. Winter Continue reading

Decorate your Home for the Holidays: Christmas

Decorate your Home for the Holidays: Christmas

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Christmas is that time of year where everyone is decorating, everyone is shopping, and everyone is picking up the same decorations. Because we all tend to strap at the same stores, many homes tend to look alike. That is why it's always a great idea to try to be creative with what you buy, to find ways to buy different and interesting decorating items, and to create a space in your home that is unique and exclusive to your style. I do this in various ways, some work while while others not Continue reading

10 Items 10 Ways: Decorate for Thanksgiving

10 Items 10 Ways: Decorate for Thanksgiving

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I have a few items I keep to decorate with. I have added a few and taken away a few over the years, but I have found that there are many ways to arrange the same few items that create a great effect and you don’t have to spend a lot of money on decorations. I have taken these few items and arranged them in different ways to inspire you. Disclosure: Many of these items come from Celebrating Home. I am an independent consultant for Celebrating Home. 10 Great Ways to Decorate For Continue reading

Oneida Culinaria Dinnerware Review

Oneida Culinaria Dinnerware Review

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When it comes to a great holiday table you want dishes that will help you show off as well as last thought the dinner. Many times people pull out the fine china and find that a few of their plates are broken by the end of the meal. That is why I was excited to check out the Oneida Culinaria Dinnerware.  It not only comes in a variety of colors but is very durable and has a 3-year chip warranty.  The dishes are beautiful and would complement any holiday table. Another reason I would Continue reading

5 DIY Holiday Decoration Ideas

5 DIY Holiday Decoration Ideas

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A Guest Post By: Gunter Jameson One of the best ways to get into the holiday spirit is to decorate. It’s often tempting to be drawn towards the sales of the Christmas season, when really, all you need to create beautiful and fun holiday decorations is a little bit of creativity. There’s nothing more jolly than a pretty wreath or a simple jingle bell garland. Here are some do-it-yourself holiday decoration ideas to get your creative juices flowing and to get you excited for this holiday Continue reading

Design For Groups

Even if you only have a three people in your home, you are sure to sometimes have a large group that will show up, it may be planned, but it may be unexpected. This is why it's very important to plan your homes layout so that you can have a large group if needed. There are some very simple ways to do this: Buy a table that expands and make sure you have room for everyone to sit when it is expanded. Buy ottomans that can be used as both seating and storage Have a small collection of fold Continue reading

7 Tips To Help Set Your Holiday Table

I promised I would write up this post and though I am later then I planned I think you will find that my 7 tips helpful. 1. Classic is not boaring, it's classic. If you love the read and green colors of christmas use them. 2. Contrasting colors are a great way to add drama to a table. Use White and blue to make a cool statement 3. Plants are your friend, freash plants are great, but don't forget to keep them fresh so that you don't have a fire. 4. Use candels at each setting to make Continue reading

Holiday Decorating Made Easy Part I

Holiday Decorating Made Easy Part I

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Decorating for the holidays is a long hard task for many people, but there are some great ways to make holiday decorating very easy. The first is to decide your color scheme. Are you a traditional red and green decorator or do you love the idea of blue and silver? If your not sure, I have a small list of some great color combination's for christmas that go beyond these 2 popular themes. Maroon and silver White and purple Blue, teal and cream Black and white Almost anything works for Continue reading

Inspiration For Your Thanksgiving Table

Inspiration For Your Thanksgiving Table

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Thanksgiving is this Thursday as I'm sure most of you know. I hope you have an idea of what you are going to serve, but do you know what your table decor is going to look like? If you don't and you need some help I hope these items will give you some inspiration for your holiday table. You can buy all of these items on Amazon if you want to get them too. Continue reading

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