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Wow, how did it get to be December 31 already? It seems like the year just flew by. Come to think if it, since I was 25, they all seem to have flown by. It was a good year on the blog. I’ve been doing this since April 2009 and I wrote (a few) more posts this year than any …
Hello again gang! I totally left you hanging on Christmas Eve and I haven’t been back since. Sorry about that, I was feeling a little lazy. I did take a bunch of photos of the mantel, but it seems ridiculous to show them now, when I’m chomping at the bit to clean it all up. I love Christmas decorations but …
Ever since our first dog was a puppy, we’ve done a personalized holiday card featuring the dogs. Sadly I can’t find that card anymore, but last year I showed you many of our previous cards (and this one). This was the first time in 11 years that we made a card without Hudson on it, which is sad, but we were …
Welcome to The Impatient Gardener blog, where Christmas happens in slow motion. I’ve been slow to get things finished this year, pared down the decorations and haven’t quite finished wrapping yet. That means that I’m just now getting around to showing you some of how Christmas is happening in my house. Today I’m showing you the tree, mostly because the …
Well, the Hampton Hostess might have been hanging with William and Kate last week, but remember how Kate practically welcomed me to England (I “ran into” her after I’d been there for all of 14 hours)? I love looking at other people’s houses all holiday’d up. Linda’s decorations are refined, unique and restrained. I bet everything she puts out has …
Behold! I bring you tidings of great news! I got my Christmas tree decorated this week. No pictures to share yet (and frankly, I do the same thing every year on my Christmas tree so it doesn’t look much different than in the past), but I will definitely share my pared-down holiday decor with you soon. Despite the fact that …
I didn’t bother to look up the history of the kissing ball, but I imagine it goes something like this: Mistletoe is ugly but people still need an excuse to kiss, so someone invented a ball covered in greens, called it a kissing ball and people started smooching under it. Works for me. Anyway, I recently took a class on …
This is actually getting out so late that Friday Finds has most likely turned into Saturday finds. Either way, here’s my (mostly) weekly roundup of cool stuff I found on the Interwebs this week. Don’t forget to enter to win a $50 gift certificate to Uncommon Goods. I’m closing the giveaway on Monday night so the winner has time to …
