design – French Ethereal

Happy Tuesday to you all! I know it’s late in the day and I had my Bible study earlier today so I’m just getting this posted, but I wanted to be sure and share more with you from the Fall In Love With Texas blog tour…

Both the lead photograph and this one were created by my very talented friend and fellow blogger Katie at Let’s Add Sprinkles. If you’re stopping by from Katie’s blog or from any of the bloggers on the tour, welcome!!! I’m glad you are here. Katie has worked hard on this tour and is creating a collage for each day. Don’t you just love these sweet graphics?

So that got me thinking, if you’ve never created a Pinterest collage on Canva or Pic Collage {like Katie did here}, especially in the beginning they can be a real challenge! I enjoy making them now and probably should do more as they are real eye-catchers. I did make this one for a past post on decorating with white:

I love decorating with white and am looking to do more here for the holidays.
This particular post can be found here.

Whichever company you decide to use to format your graphics

they all have pre-formatted templates to help you with your design.

I’m always making Pinterest graphics on Canva.com but there are a wide variety of things which can be made:

*presentation slides

*posters

*Instagram posts

*Facebook covers

*email banners

*cards

Since we are heading towards the holidays; you might like to make this…

How to create your graphic

Take one of your photographs and imported it into your graphic design site, then cropped it large.

Pick out what type of item you want to create, such as a Pinterest graphic.

From there play around with highlighting the different template’s words and entering your own.

Then play around with different fonts and colors ~ this is the hard stuff in the beginning but gets really fun as you start creating!

Save your graphic and “publish it.” You can send your graphic straight to Pinterest, Twitter and other places, or board you have on just download it to your computer to save and add to an upcoming post. This is what I tend to do most of the time. Your program should automatically save any work you create so you can use it again at a later date.

Well that’s basically it for creating a Pinterest graphic! I haven’t created too many other things yet but I once you start using a graphics program you’ll immediately see its future potential.

🙂

Coming tomorrow I’ll keep this post short and sweet as

I have a much longer post one coming out in the morning…

It’s Mr. Ethereal’s and my wedding anniversary!

Here are the links for Days 1 and 2 of the tour and each day goes

“live” that morning.

Stop back by tomorrow to catch the next day’s party-goers and please visit the previous day’s Texas bloggers if you haven’t already. Lots of wonderful fall decor and ideas being shared.

🙂

Monday

Let’s Add Sprinkles

My Thrift Store Addiction

Tuesday

Jusqu’à demain {until tomorrow},

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Small Space Living ~ Sharing Kindness through Organization

January 11, 2018June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

Sharing kindness and helping someone to

organize their home is something

I love to do!

Today’s post will be sharing the beginnings of this

new project I am helping a friend with and

that is organizing and redecorating
her small rv home.

🙂

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Today I am joining

a wonderful group of bloggers

who are sharing their stories of kindness

with you, our readers, and those links are included

in this post below.

Please enjoy your visit with a warm cinnamon scone

and a hot cup of tea…

:)’

These two new pillows my friend loves! Her favorite color is blue so that will be our main hue.

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I have a friend here where we live who has special needs and lives on her own however organizing her living spaces

is just not her forté.

She and I have been friends for a little over a year now and we walk together all the time and I help her with things

she may need from time to time.

I have helped by taking her to get groceries or driving her to the doctor, as a number of her other friends also do.

It is a privilege to be able to help in this way and it is really an honor to be able to use my organizing and decorating skills

to make her life more

functional and beautiful.

🙂

Begin by clearing out

My friend had already begun packing up things

she no longer needed and had outgrown in bags.

We continued some of this on our first day organizing.

Since she has lost a considerable amount of weight

she is excited to be receiving gently used clothing

from friends and finding new clothing at a few nicer local thriftshops.

We concurrently went through her kitchen pulling out

duplicate and unneeded items and talked about having everything you need to prepare meals and for baking everyday right where you cook and mix things.

We also discussed ways to organize the kitchen ~ by use and item.

You can see in the top photos we have begun putting all the

kitchen appliances in the cupboard above the tan chair.

Then we worked on putting paper goods and less needed

kitchen items together in that same area.

Reorganize and space planning

Since my friend has lost a considerable amount of weight she is excited to be receiving gently used clothing from friends and finding new clothing at a few of the nicer local thriftshops.

A mutual friend takes her out shopping about once a month

or so and they make a day of it by going out to lunch, too.

As we worked on purging those no-longer-needed clothing pieces

I spent time teaching my friend about hanging long items

together and about taking unrelated items out of each closet.

Small space living is the same whether one lives in a trailer,

a small cottage home or in a studio apartment.

Really organizing one’s built-in cupboards and closets

is key to making our homes look and feel bigger!

😉

Our Yoda shows an interest in helping clean and organize.

Clean as you go

One of the biggest tips I can offer is to clean and wipe down

cupboards inside and out and the items going inside as you go through them.

Putting everything away all nice and clean makes a big difference in how we feel about ourselves and about our home!

Part of the fun for us was just looking at what

my friend had and seeing things with fresh eyes!

Since there are only three small storage drawers in the kitchen which were meant for the silverware, some utensils and a few linens for wiping and washing dishes,

I showed my friend how to display her silverware in large

water glasses up on her counter along with an unused crock

to hold her utensils.

Just doing this gave us a free drawer to have the

ever-needed “junk drawer.”

Repurpose closet spaces

Above her television is a perfect spot for my friend’s jeans

casual pants that can be folded and t-shirts.

Here we will put in some foldable shelving to give her

better stacking ability.

This closet will probably hold other things as well

but she really needs clothes closet storage ~

her chief complaint with not being able to put

things away as she would like.

Store away non-used items

Christmas is just over for the year so we worked on

giving her a bigger storage box for her needs.

In this new box we were able to put in all of her blank

Christmas cards, wrapping paper and decorations

and ornaments as it was just the perfect size!

This box fit perfectly in her really unused storage area

on the outside of her trailer.

We will be storing more items there as we get further

into our reorganizing adventure.

😉

Fixing up the bedroom will be here in the next few weeks.

To be continued…

I’ve been over one other day and we worked more on

putting things for donation out in my car

so…

The next time we get together we will probably tackle

the bedroom closets and storage needs in there.

Here are some items we might need in my friend’s home

that I began pricing when I picked up my own groceries

this past weekend.

Stay tuned!

Being kind and helping others is what I believe in.

I love my decorating and gardens but my heart is

firmly planted in helping others and especially friends

to achieve their dreams and goals, too.

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*An Update

My friend and I walk together and attend the same Bible

study, but we haven’t really got back to more organizing

in her little trailer home.

I did share some organizational skills with her and we

took a bunch of outgrown clothes and other clothes

which were donated to her to the Salvation Army.

People at her church and here where we live give her

bags of clothes to sort through all of the time ~ one of

the problems she has with organizing.

So… with that, we will get back finishing organizing as

the weather cools off, hopefully!

🙂

Also I’m resharing this post with

Spread the Kindness Link Up #80 ~ Shelby on the Edge

Thank you to – our hosts on today’s

PERK Project

{kindness the last in the series}

Jemma and Stacey

Here are all of the ladies sharing their

posts with you:

Jemma ~ At Home with Jemma

Discovering Kindness on a Yellow School Bus

Stacey ~ Poofing the Pillows

Throwing Kindness Like Confetti

Jeanie ~ The Marmalade Gypsy

When Kindness Brings Tears

Kris ~ Junk Chic Cottage
PERK Project and Kindness

Lavender Dreams
The Give Way of Life

Cindy ~ County Road 407
Serve and In Turn You Are Served

Tammy ~ Patina and Paint
The PERK Project

Terri ~ Our Good Life
One Word ~ Kind

Carol ~ Bluesky At Home
How to Write Your How for Your Why

Stay kind, always,

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Just a Quick Post…

August 9, 2017June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

Just a quick post…

Was really under the weather yesterday so I

got NOTHING done so doing double time

today! 🙂

I’ve been wanting to make some pretty

drop cloth slipcovers for these two

chairs here in our Prairie Home

for a little while now.

I saw a cute idea over at a favorite store

{I’ll share that place when I post the final post tomorrow or Friday}

and that gave me an idea!

Skirted dining room chair cover with tiebacks and rosette ~ front to be a little tank top!

So here’s the beginnings of a

flirty little dining room chair cover

I just designed…

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That’s all for now, folks!

😉

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Inspirational Furnishings ~ Cynthia Rowley’s Gorgeous Furniture Pieces

June 21, 2017June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

Riding the downward escalator inside

Dillard’s

at the

Shops at Willow Bend, Plano, Texas

a couple of weeks ago

I spied this gilded bedroom beauty and

an armchair that made my heart go

pitter-patter…

“Mimi” wing chair ~ available at Dillard’s online and in stores.

I tend to fall head over heels for rose strewn pieces

and having two upholstered couches decorated with roses

just waiting to come out to Texas…

this lovely armchair

would fit right into my home perfectly!

A year ago in the spring at the

Design Blogger’s Conference in Atlanta

Cynthia Rowley came and spoke during one of the

sessions about becoming a designer.

In her slides, she shared this table from her new line

which was then going to be coming out in the fall

and of course I remembered it

because of the roses!

The Antoinette gilded upholstered bed, king size along with other Cynthia Rowley designed furnishings

The gilded twig mirror in that first photograph

{sharing again!}

is also part of her collection for

Hooker Furniture.

I love the play on faux bois with the twigs

around this gorgeous mirror!

The tables, chairs and other items you see around the

Antionette bed and the rose armchair are also

part of the collection.

I am thinking my daughter would love

that mirrored dresser ~ it’s so glam and

Old Hollywood with its retro 1930’s/1940’s

vintage look.

One last quick photo ~ I only took a very

few photographs with my iPhone while I was

looking at these lovely pieces.

The part of me which loves anything and everything

in a vintage French style wanted to share this

amazing detail with you.

Loving the soft blue grey velvet

paired with the gold ormolu crest!

Trés bien, non?

Have a great Wednesday!

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Interior Decorating Goes Outdoors ~ Our Spring Garden Taking Shape

April 7, 2017June 7, 2023 French Ethereal

I’m liking the new arrangement! Was drying laundry while potting plants that day, as you can see. 🙂

Over the past few weeks

our little

Texas Garden

is beginning to take shape.

🙂

Really like the terra cotta pot I found at At Home… I put a few rocks in the bottom to help with
keeping dirt in and critters out.

Garden beginnings…

Before heading to California

After picking up the mail in Richardson,

I finally found out how on the freeways here

in North Texas to get to

At Home

which is down in lower

Lewisville

on the border with Plano, Texas.

At Home is a really nice decorating store

filled with current holiday decorations

to spruce up your home,

all kinds of garden pots and urns in many colors,

indoor and outdoor furniture including

slightly damaged pieces

{which I looked at since we need a small table in our bedroom}

for the adventurous person to take home and

repair and save

a little money at the same time!

The first time I stepped into At Home

I picked up a couple of kitchen and bath

storage pieces.

I’ll probably share those in the future

some time. Anyway…

I am in~love with this store!

If I had the funds, I could buy like

10 pots and urns and go crazy with plants!

But so far on the couple of shopping trips

I’ve taken, I purchased three.

Love this sweet Scripture pot! I saw it and knew it needed to come home with me!

Garden Structure

One of the things about living here

at Wagon Master

{and really any campground}

is there are always rules about

whether one can put out a carpet

build a deck and

whether you can decorate out of doors.

{and with good reason ~ nobody wants a trashy neighbor! 🙂 }

Even people coming in who aren’t staying

for an extended stay bring their plants

with them, surprisingly.

Kinda like bringing your cat or dog

we garden people have to have our gardens

in some form or another.

😉

I just got a very few plants to see how they will do here in Sanger. Found the lantana and this mini striped petunia
along with the blue flowers in the Scripture pot. I want to plant the two pink flowers in with the rose bush I have coming.
Plants overhanging from pots and flower boxes are sooo pretty!

Every spring I get this urge to be outside

and garden… It’s pretty hard to not garden.

So I asked if I could put out our garden carpet

like we had at Lake Skinner

when we were camp hosts.

The new terra cotta pot reminds me of these that I left
at our Big House ~ including the angel one below. My friend
Sandy has a good majority of my old plants and pots now. Photo
right and below right show our Lake Skinner yard and the outdoor carpeting.

We can’t. It’s not that the owners

Ken and Janet

don’t want carpets ~ it’s that it’s too hard

for mowing around.

So… I noodled the idea around for a bit

and came up with a “visual carpet”

using regular decorating techniques!

{Can you see the rectangle ~ with the big square planter as the lower right corner ??}

With our big 9′ x 12′ hand-made wool Afghani rug, it was easy to put all of our dining room furniture “on the carpet,” as you can see here. I’ll probably use this beautiful rug in a family room when we get another house. It is the largest of the three rugs and carpets we have. My hubby brought it and three others home from the Persian Gulf after returning from Desert Storm in 1991. We gave three to family members as presents but two returned home to us.

When you decorate and lay out your furniture

inside your house

the rule of thumb is to either

put all of the furniture on the carpet {the rectangle}

when you use a rug in your living space

keep all of it off the carpet

putting the sofa, easy chairs,

lamps and end tables surrounding the rug.

So I made mine “on the carpet.”

Of grass, that is!

😉

Yoda likes the new arrangement ~ he’s happy in the shade under the table.

The furniture layout outside had really been bothering me

for about a month or more and I hadn’t really

sat down and figured out what exactly was it

that I didn’t like.

I had created a triangle with the picnic table

and the bench and The Girls

and it wasn’t working…

It was a hot mess!

The Solution

When I did figure it out, it was a simple fix:

add more pieces {hence the pots, which I wanted anyway}

and create a visual rectangle.

That did the trick!

😀

I knew I was looking for a few pots to put up

some plants and I already had the Garden Girls.

I’d also bought the bench a couple of months ago from

Wayfair online when there was a sale

so it was fairly easy to lay everything out

like putting all of the furniture in an empty room.

This is an easy trick to do and is

really simple:

Just remove everything from

your decorating area then put pieces back

thinking about decorating

as if you were putting it on a rug.

Works every time!

😉

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A Little Spring Breakfast Tea and a Scone Recipe

April 2, 2017June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

Our new Little Home receives

the most beautiful light

in the morning and now that it is springtime

“taking breakfast in the breakfast room”

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is de rigueur.

This week a friend stopped by for

an impromptu breakfast tea.

We sat in the mid-morning light and

enjoyed a light breakfast of

fruit and nut scones

served with English Breakfast tea.

Simple creamy white plates

lace-edged napkins

sweet bunnies surrounding a

soft pink carnation bloom

and

delicate pink transferware

with silvery accents

set a serene breakfast table.

We talked about the paint colors she’d like

in her place and also about

making a bar height table and

adding two small stools.

Storage is a big need so

she’d like a shelving unit to hold many

of her things.

Next week we will get back to

painting and see if we can get that done.

After a nice visit my friend went

off to run errands and so did I.

Always sooo nice to

take time and sit and visit with friends.

And now we can in our

“breakfast room.”

🙂

Here is the recipe for the scones I made

in our new convection microwave.

Fruit and Nut Scones

2 cups flour

1/4 tsp. salt

2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

3 oz. cold butter, cut into pieces

{use a pastry blender, a food processor or 2 knives to cut the butter}

1 egg

1/4 c. maple syrup (or Lyle’s Golden)

1/4 cup buttermilk

{can make with regular or even 1% milk ~ add 1 or 2 Tbsp. white vinegar

to measuring cup then fill remainder with milk to make “buttermilk”/curdled milk}

1/2 cup diced dried fruit bits

{I used Craisins and golden raisins}

1/4 cup chopped nuts

{this time I used only pecans}

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper

{or use butter-sprayed cake pans}

Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl.

Add butter and cut into mixture with pastry blender, knives or food processor

until mixture resembles fine meal.

Add egg, syrup and buttermilk ~ stir until combined.

Mix in dried fruit bits and nuts.

Place dough onto parchement-lined sheet and pat into 10″ circle.

{I split my dough into two circles about 8″ around.}

Cut circle into 16 wedges with a sharp knife.

{or however many to feed your hungry crowd! ;)}

Bake 15 min. until golden brown. These scones freeze well.

***This recipe is adapted from an older

Victorian Homes magazine, December 2005 issue

Hope you enjoyed this “tea”

and enjoy this recipe!

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Places to Stay ~ The Beverly Hilton

March 17, 2017June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

Beverly Hills… a land of enchanted

movies, movie stars and more

and a
most luxurious hotel…

I loved that Esteem Media
chose the

Beverly Hilton
as their venue to hold the

Design Bloggers Conference.

Every morning we were treated to

gleaming silver urns filled with

coffee and hot water for our

morning cuppa.

Below each urn, sweet square silver catchers

collected drips and solid hotel silverware and

cream colored china

were provided for an elegant breakfast

reminiscent of a time gone by.

The conference finished late Tuesday afternoon

and last year I had hurriedly

flown out as the conference finished.

This year I decided to

stay one more day…

early shots before dawn

Wednesday morning dawned bright and sunny.

In just a few hours it would be

time to check out so

thoughts of capping off this

hotel adventure by having a little

breakfast in bed

swirled through my head!

A young woman brought my bagel and hot tea

from the hotel’s kitchen and she giggled at

my delight in “ordering in.”

Of course I had to take some photographs

to remember the day!

Just a few quick pics then
hopping up in bed

breakfast was enjoyed.

More lustrous silverware was placed

“just so” on a large tray

alongside a

chocolate orchid set inside a

grooved cylindrical vase

and tiny

salt and pepper shakers ~

a bit of

royal treatment
from a romantic hotel

where hallways are hung with portraits of

Cary Grant, Judy Garland and

Katharine Hepburn.

A lovely way to cap off a

working holiday in the land of

magic and movie stars!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, btw…

xoxo Barb

🙂

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3 New Products and Lines for Your Home

March 8, 2017June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

Today I want to share some of the

gorgeous products

coming to market seen at the

Design Bloggers Conference

which caught my eye…

Crystal embedded faucet handles, or taps, for your bath and kitchen. The lovely ladies
who work for THG ~ sorry, bad iPhone photo shots!

Kitchen and Bath

1. THG a French company which I am just learning about, has some really exciting bath products for the lavatory. Their lead designer has used tiny Swarovski crystals in several of their taps {aka “handles”} giving those pieces such a textural and tactile experience! For this girl who just came out of 14 years working with autistic children, you’ve got to get these for your kids!

They will LOVE the feel of these!

THG also asked Lalique, the company famous for their incredible crystal vases and perfume bottles, to fashion their crystal into the prettiest rose and apple taps and fixtures you’ve ever seen {the pomme collection}. I’m sorry I didn’t take a closer picture for you, but please check out their company website online HERE. Seriously in love with all of their line! Their idea is that these pieces should be “jewelry for your home.”

2. Miele {pronounced Mee-Lay} is a German company which makes a full range of kitchen and bathroom appliances, vacuum cleaners and hardware for the kitchen and bath. These aren’t technically an individual “new product” per se; however, they are new products in an established line and they are new to me so I’m sharing them here with you. 😉

These ranges have closed burners which are particularly nice to keep food from falling down below the cooktop, and I also really like the burners as they are large enough but move easily, good for people with grip issues.

Love these double ovens! Couldn’t you see yourself cooking a Thanksgiving turkey in one and your pie and other goodies in the other all at the same time??!

I’m hungry already!

Miele’s hardware comes in a wide range of colors

{some shown on this display board} and styles to fit yours or your client’s home and aesthetics. Please hop on over to Miele to see their full product line.

Home Decor

3. Universal came out with these really cute chrome and cararra marble hexagonal-shaped tables. I was in love the minute I saw them since I live in my “Small Cottage” and we need our tables to be small. These cuties can be grouped and moved around super easily as each only weighs about 10 lbs. or so. Universal had a contest to see who could style their tables the best and the winner would win a table. Obviously, I didn’t win one. Sad face…. 🙁 I’m still thinking I might call them up and see about buying one {or two or three} as they are super cute and portable! Universal is only available to the trades; however, you can look them up online at: www.universaltothetrade.com.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this quick

tour of some of the newest home appliances,

fixtures and housewares for you home!

I’ve enjoyed

bringing them to you.

Check back later this week as I’ll be sharing

Inspirational Designers ~ Styling Your Photoshoots Like a Pro

March 7, 2017June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

Jickie Torres ~ editor of Country Cottages and Bungalows

Hello from Beverly Hills and the

Design Bloggers Conference!

Today I thought I’d share a little about styling your own

photoshoots like a professional.

This was the talk Jickie Torres and Courtney Allison

two of my favorite photo stylists and designers

gave on Sunday afternoon.

Jickie is the editor of Cottages and Bungalows magazine

and

Courtney is the photographer and blog-author of

French Country Cottage

one of my favorite blogs out there

in Blog Land.

Together they spoke about creating

good quality photos and the differences between

creating photos for your blog -vs-

creating photos aimed towards

magazine publication.

Two slightly different ways of photo shooting

that I think most bloggers wouldn’t just

intuitively realize.

Courtney of French Country Cottage

In this slide, Courtney compared two

of her photographs and talked about how

the one on the left is more of what the industry

calls “a vignette scene.”

See how it’s more of a “close-up?”

It shares more details like the pompom ruffle

around the chair pillow,

the thick plush down seat cushion

and of course

the ever sweet doggie!

These kinds of photographs work great

on your blog, but for editorial print work

there needs to be more of a “room shot.”

Editors also need your photos to

“tell a story.”

Jickie mentioned to make your photos

realistic ~ have a cup on the table,

drape a blanket over the chair’s arm.

You want those things in your scenes to draw a

reader in and make him or her

want to jump right into the picture and just

plop right down making oneself

right at home.

🙂

Well, those are just two of the big takeaways

from Jickie and Courtney’s talk late

Sunday afternoon!

There’s sooo much more to share from conference and I’ll be sharing more in tomorrow’s post.

As always, feel free to share this post and any others and please sign up if on my sidebar and follow along on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook as I’m posting video and other photos there.

Thank you!

5 Favorite Gifts to Give this Holiday Season

November 26, 2016June 21, 2019 French Ethereal

Happy Cyber Monday, Everybody!
I hope your Thanksgiving weekend with
family & friends was wonderful!
Today I’m joining a wonderful group of bloggers
in bringing my
Favorite Holiday Gifts
to give to family and friends
and you’ll find them all
at the click of your {Christ}mouse!

1. Wedding Cake Serving Sets

A wonderful present for
the lucky couple
with a wedding in the coming year
or here at year’s end!

I gave this gorgeous
Wedding Cake Serving Set
from David’s Bridal
to my son and daughter~in~law
this summer and they loved it!

This serving set must be based off real vintage pieces!
I love the stamped “I Do” and the
Art~Deco retro styling!
Seriously pretty with its swirls and graceful lines
reminiscent of that lovely era ~
a lovely, thoughtful gift
any bride and groom would surely appreciate.

2. Warm & Cozy Winter Scarves

I have become a scarf~oholic the past few years.

I have had a few scarves since my early 20’s

but now there are soooo many choices!

I just don’t think anyone can have too many scarves.

😉

I found these at a sweet little shop called

Mia’s Mirror

and this shop was actually inside another store

H.E.B.

which is a grocery chain here in Texas.

Some of the scarves were only $5.00.

Seriously!!!

Mia’s Mirror can be found at:

https://www.heb.com/static-page/Mias-Mirror

3. Christmas Ornaments

Christmas ornaments are the perfect gift to give

your coworkers, bosses, your children’s teachers,

really anyone!

Every year after Christmas I like to go out and buy up

left over ornaments to stash away

for next year’s quick go~to present.

Ornaments make lovely add~ons to tie into a package.

It is fun to give your children an ornament for their first year of life,

then a new one every year after to go along with

whatever they are into right now.

These were also found at H.E.B. in their houseware section.

https://www.heb.com

4. Meaningful Signs

Sooo many beautiful signs out there with

wonderful sayings on them!

Some are so elegant with gilded frames

or the writing is scrawled

across a mirror.

Others are more rustic and have been made with

recycled wooden boards.

Others still are cut out of sheet metal.

There’s a meaningful sign out there for all tastes.

🙂

These framed signs I found at

Hobby Lobby

and there were many different ones

from which to choose!

Hobby Lobby can be found online at:

http://www.hobbylobby.com

5. Home Cooked Meal

It’s what most of us dream of having ~

someone else to cook for us!

{at least I do!}

😉

Why not give your loved ones a little “coupon book”

homemade by you for homemade meals

that you’ll make for them?

or…

So many restaurants deliver so perhaps a gift certificate

or prepaid card with an amount that would cover

the cost of a nice meal.

Everyone appreciates a good homestyle meal so that

they can take a break from cooking ~

especially with today’s busy lives

after work.

Thanks for stopping by!
I hope your holiday season
is a wonderful one.
I’ll be sharing more holiday decorating
and gift giving ideas over
the coming weeks.

Blessings to you,
Barb 🙂

Please stop by and visit some of the other participants in today’s
Gift Giving Guide blog party, thank you!

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