“So, I hear you’re having a little trouble with the old garden, there.” With a little wink and a smile.

(Look at the socks :)).We thought we would make the fake tree in the dining room a red tree too to match.

Kennedy did it in her own way.That tree doesn’t even have a skirt on it and I probably won’t get around to finding one for it this year.Less mess though for sure!.

This is super shameful.Baby Jack doesn’t even have a stocking out yet because I wanted to use these ones but I only have three.

Oh well, I’ll put out a non-matching one for him on Christmas Eve and he won’t care.

I would have put some fresh cedar into these for now if I had wanted to walk the 20 feet from my back deck to cut some.These are so important for a pretty room but such huge dust collectors!

If you really stop to look at how much dust your window coverings collect, you’d realize that taking them down and cleaning them enough to actually keep them clean would be a full time job!Why not just give them a quick swipe with the vacuum and rest assured that they can still go awhile longer without needing to go through the whole washing and ironing routine?.

I know I said that these ideas would be “besides the obvious” and using a vacuum on your floors definitely counts as obvious, but I really do have to tell you how much cleaner my floors are now.I vacuum all the time!