I hate fall but I begrudgingly admit to enjoying decorating for Halloween. If you have a giant ivy pit in your front yard, put some foam graves there! And a skeleton. This year the graveyard expanded past the walkway. Don't forget the friendly ghosts. (we trim the ivy down from the wall after Halloween every year) And a not-very-friendly bat. Let's toss some plastic skills into the potted plants while we're at it. We also have a string of Mickey Mouse pumpkin lights in ...
Skelly Saturday
Our Halloween decorations include a plastic skeleton head and hands that we jam into the overgrown ivy in our front yard. The trick-or-treaters love it. WM loves it too and this year asked if we could leave it out and he'd put a Santa hat on it for Christmas. With the fall being as it's been, I really don't care about the small things so I said sure. This is what I found this morning. The newspaper is usually left at the end of the driveway, meaning either the delivery person made a trip up ...
Candle centerpieces
Two years ago, a friend of mine shared a Christmas centerpiece on Facebook. It was comprised of a battery-operated pillar candle in a glass jar surrounded by peppermint candies. I pinned it here. While I couldn't find green peppermints, I recreated the pin and it was really sharp. Usually Pinterest ideas fall flat, but this one is solid gold. And when Christmas ended I wondered what else I could do with it? So I started shoving various candies into the jar. For Valentines Day, I did ...
Christmas in the cube city
My desk at TNP faces an aisle, so I get a little bit of eye-level flat area to decorate. I think I have 80% of of it covered. My shopping is done with the exception of the most difficult parents to buy for, Mr. Quiet and Ms. I Only Want a Card. (note to self: buy card.) I did the majority of it online this year, a first for someone who loves going out to shop. It was partially because the Cyber Monday deals were pretty good and partly because regular department stores don't carry cool niche ...
