Style at Home - Christmas Decorating Tips

My sideboard gets out more than I do.  She's showing up again on the Style at Home website, but this time decked out in her Christmas finery.  She's hanging out with some mighty fine company too.  Hop on over to read the great tips from the other bloggers.  


My sideboard and I want to extend a heartfelt thanks to Elaine Song, Web Editor, for the invite.  We are pleased and honoured to have been included.

(with apologies for the wonky collage)

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Also I want to welcome all the new followers that have shown up recently from the various Christmas parties.  I hope you make yourself at home here - pull up a chair and grab a cup of hot chocolate.   In case you missed some of my Christmas posts, I wanted to recap some things that might inspire you:


~ twine and cardboard can be turned into rustic letters like the ones that spell 'JOY' above our sideboard

~ red Sharpie, some dollar store plates, and a little doodle art can made some festive wall art like the Christmas plates over our sideboard

~ have a look at five different Christmas cookie recipes and ways to wrap them so they can be given as gifts

~ to read one of my most Googled posts about the 12 days of Christmas gift box

Thanks Style at Home

I never thought I would see Sense and Simplicity on the website of one of my favourite design magazines, Style at Home, but that is just what has happened.  You can see why I'm so excited in the screen shot below (which, by the way, involved me downloading and learning how to use Snagit in order to get a screen shot of the whole page so I could show you the awesomeness). 


My appearance on the Style at Home website is thanks to a very sweet (and completely thrilling) invitation from Elaine Song, the web-editor, to join in a round-up of bloggers weighing in on which fall design trend they like the most.  Style at Home identified three fall trends - wood, new neutrals, and modern global - which I used as inspiration to decorate my sideboard and blogged about here.  I then revamped my sideboard using the same fall trends as inspiration and blogged some more about about it here.  By now you are probably tired of seeing my sideboard, but just one more time - okay?

The only other blog I recognized in the list is the lovely Bright, Bold, and Beautiful, which means there are ten new blogs for me to discover.  I'm working my way down the list and finding a whole bunch more must-reads.  Hop on over and have a look at the inspiration.


Thanks Style at Home!