Here are some great home decorating ideas for bringing the freshness of spring into your home.
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Sponge paint your walls, or a key piece of furniture. Blues, greens, pinks, and yellows in pastel shades refresh a room, and the softness of sponging gives an impressionistic appeal.
Take clippings from outdoor ivy, and root in water for FREE houseplants. Buy inexpensive shade annuals and pot them up for indoors- fuchsias, impatiens, begonias, and primroses are wonderful for bringing in color, and deal well with the lower light indoors.
Dress up candles as natural works of art instead of putting them away for the warm months. Use a glue gun to attach organic materials such as dried twigs, flowers, cinnamon sticks, worn out potpourri, pressed leaves, coffee beans…use what you have! Or, tie on raffia or ribbon and group candles on a shelf, tabletop, or on a mirror.
Paint inexpensive houseplant pots to give your room designer touches. Sponge paint over clay pots, or use a stencil or simple pattern to give interest. This technique can also be used on your outdoor pots. Hint: for a more elegant look, try using the new metallic craft paints over clay pots. Simply sponging on some metallic paint (try combining them) can look extremely upscale.
Got an old wooden stepladder? Use it as a great plant stand to bring the green indoors. You can paint it or leave it rustic and weathered, depending on the style of your room. Full size wooden ladders can look great on the patio.
Add spring detail to your window treatments by using small grapevine wreaths as tiebacks or swag holders. You can add more interest by gluing on a small bunch of dried flowers. This is a great way to reuse flowers from a damaged arrangement, or leftovers from another project.
Buy artificial plant vines at the craft store, and drape them over the tops of your window treatments, or wrap them around a floor lamp. Watch the craft stores carefully, and you can usually catch them on sale for just a couple of bucks.
Cover cardboard boxes with fresh floral fabric, and stack on a table like hatboxes. If you utilize scraps from another project, you will have creative, decorative storage, virtually free!
Kathy Wilson
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March 3rd, 2010 at 10:23 pm
Season's Beatings?
There’s gotta be a better way to spend December.
Let’s face it: once you’re old enough to fall off of Santa’s "List", Christmas loses some of its magic. Actually, it loses all its magic and turns into a super-commercialized orgy of over-eating, binge drinking, and familial Hell. But there isn’t any "bah, humbug" here… no siree! We just think the venerable holiday could use some fresh changes, nothing big… just a couple of twists here and there. Like a new cover of "White Christmas" sung by Robert Downey Jr. perhaps, or maybe a Ninja Santa, or instead of giving presents, give advice. That way everyone gives and gets. So we kindly suggest that you enact some of these new traditions in your celebration of this holiday season.
* Decorate your fireplace, tree, and house with long fatty strips of Christmas Bacon.
* Fill a pair of galoshes with cottage cheese and leave them by the door Christmas Eve. Check back in the morning to look for Santa’s little curds-slathered footprints.
* Get rid of your Christmas Tree and invest in the new Yuletide rage… The Chia Christ!
* Decorate your nipples with frosting, sprinkles, and tinsel.
* Attend Midnight Mass and hoot "boo-yah" every time the priest mentions "the savior".
* Carve stars in pumpkins, and hide painted eggs in your yard while dressed up like Abraham Lincoln. When your neighbors ask you what you’re doing, respond, "I was going to ask you freaks the same thing."
* Dress up like an elf, go to a playground, and collect lunch money from kids to "pay for Santa’s chemotherapy". Buy a Christmas six pack with the proceeds.
* Find out exactly how many cups of spiked eggnog it takes to get sugarplums to dance in your head.
* Eat Christmas dinner at a soup kitchen in a suit and tie and complain loudly that the service is lousy, the creamed corn is lumpy, and someone smells like "ripe ass".
* Casually hang out at a mall dressed like Santa. When hurried parents ask you if you’re the on-duty Santa, smile and say "No. I’m John Wayne Gacy".
* Get the crap beaten out of you for showing the "Christmas Spirit" by hugging strangers on the street.
* Boil goat heads and festoon the outside of your house with them. Suggest to neighbors that they do the same because the skulls "spook flying reindeer".
* Tell your parents you’re bringing home someone special, and then arrive with a life-sized Gingerbread Man. If you’re a man, tell your folks you’re "gay for gingerbread". If you’re a woman, tell them you have something else "cooking in the oven".
* Make sure all your toy-sized nativity scenes come with spring-loaded attack sheep, kung-fu grip wise men, and shepherds that transform into robotic tarantulas.
* Christmas Morning Happy Hour at Hooters, 6am ’til Noon.
March 4th, 2010 at 3:25 am
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March 4th, 2010 at 3:27 am
Bah humbug!@
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March 4th, 2010 at 3:29 am
You’re sooooooooooo bad, but that was really funny :O)
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March 4th, 2010 at 3:31 am
I love your vivid imagination. We have very similar humoristic/slightly-sarcastic writing skills……doesn’t it feel good when you can unload a literary composition of this sort and know that people will laugh just as hard as you did while you wrote it?
More Power to Ya!
Best of Luck!
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March 4th, 2010 at 3:33 am
OK who got my family on cam and wheres my cut?can’t do the nipple thing,the sprinkles gave me a rash last time!!can’t wait til easter when jesus comes back and we party like it’s 1999! you know,he looks a lot like prince but he doesn’t do the tongue thing. that water to wine thing gets us all buzzing ,bad thing is all that bread and fish has the house stinking for weeks!!yeah jesus is my homeboy,but i hope he doesn’t bring lazarus back again,he smells rank!!
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March 4th, 2010 at 3:35 am
LOL how many cups of eggnog does it take? Hmmm that sounds good right now…..
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March 4th, 2010 at 3:37 am
I shall take the decorating my nipples
hahahahahahahahah
lol good one
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March 4th, 2010 at 3:39 am
Ha Ha Ha
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