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What’s Your Christmas Style?

November 20, 2013

When it comes to Christmas décor, I’m one of those people who likes to change it up every year and create a new look for my décor. I don’t go out and buy all new holiday decorations but I do buy (or diy) a few new ornaments, ribbon and gift wrap to fit the theme I want to create. I also try to use my existing ornaments in cycles so I’m not using the same pieces every year.

When it comes to Christmas décor there are many styles to love.

And the list goes on and on!

Typically in January of each year I begin thinking about what I want my Christmas décor to look like. Yes I know this sounds crazy but the timing also coincides with the January Gift and Home Furnishings market that takes place in Atlanta in January. During the market all the seasonal vendors showcase the new looks and trends for the coming Christmas season. Naturally seeing 100’s of beautifully decorated Christmas trees, beautiful ribbon and every ornament under the sun sparks my creativity.

My holiday decorating theme this year started with this wrapping paper…..

and next came this ribbon that I found at a wholesale shop here in Atlanta…..

Once I had these items, all the pieces of my décor fell into place.

Here’s a sneak peek at my décor for Christmas décor theme for 2013!

Colors: red, antique gold, shades of green and a touch of silver

Materials: Burlap, satin, colored glass and mercury glass

Style: Modern Classic

There will also be lots of texture and of beautiful gift wrap and package embellishments for the gifts.

{p.s. those Christmas tree chalkboard tags were made by me and are available in my Etsy Shop.}

Decorating a my house goes into full swing this weekend and I’ll be sure to share the completed look when we’re done.

Cheers!

My Christmas décor from 2011 and 2012!

My Visit to Antique Traditions

May 13, 2013

Before I headed off to the Kentucky Derby, I had the privilege of being the guest of honor for Ladies Night Out at a fabulous store north of Atlanta. Antiques Traditions is a cute home décor a gift store that is actually composed of 4 stores under one roof. The store sits on a quaint little street in downtown Norcross which exudes all the charm of a sweet southern town. The streets are tree-lined, the people are friendly and the ambience is unmistakable!

Lorraine who owns Antique Traditions started the business years ago with her mom, Hazel. After years of being in business alone she opened up her shop to three women, Carolee, Taylor and Mary, each of whom has their own unique shop under the Antiques Traditions roof.

I can’t fully express to you what a wonderful selection of vintage, handmade and new items Antique Traditions has to offer so I’ll let you enjoy my own personal photo album.

This iron star wall grill is one of the stores best-selling items. I think it would look pretty awesome as a ceiling medallion with a chandelier hanging from the center!

Antique Traditions carries one of my favorite personal care lines, Shelley Kyle! This line of products will really make you feel pampered!

Lovely accessories

and wonderful textiles!

I loved this table with the carved swan base!

The jewelry selection at Antique Traditions is fabulous and the prices are great.

Handmade soaps and pillows

Adorable baby items, perfect for gift giving! Carolee also offers custom monogramming for many of the items in her boutique.

A wonderful assortment of personal stationery

Vintage lighting, furniture and decorative accents.

Beautiful watercolor art

and whimsical linens.

I love, love, love this necklace!

Isn’t this chandelier fabulous. I can envision it hanging in a bathroom or bedroom.

There is a wonderful selection of artwork

and mirrors!

And lots of lovely trinkets!

A few of these metal tags came home with me

and you know I love this cloche!

I am so happy to have had the opportunity to meet the women of Antique Traditions. With so many specialty retailers closing their doors, it is great to know that a store like Antique Tradition is thriving and creating a special shopping destination for its customers. I’ll definitely be making lots of visits back to the store and look forward to checking out the rest of downtown Norcross. Thanks Lorraine for inviting me as the special guest at your event!

Antique Traditions

109 South Peachtree Street

Norcross, GA 30071 770-263-7761

http://theshopsofantiquetraditions.com/

And, like Antique Traditions on Facebook here!

5 Organizing Ideas I’m Loving

March 7, 2012

I’ve done a bit of organizing and de-cluttering around my place lately and am working to create storage that is pretty to look at and easy to manage.

I’m looking for ways to maximize every square inch of closet storage and bring some order to my kitchen cabinets. Of course I turned to Pinterest for some organizing inspiration and found 5 really easy and stylish ways to bring some order to the chaos.

I love the idea of hanging bars on the inside of a closet door, creating more storage for rarely used items or in my case for my ever-expanding handbag “collection”.

I use a variety of storage containers in my bathroom linen closets, but love the idea of making them a bit more decorative with ribbons and tags. Tags are very practical for storage in a guest bathroom, letting your guest know where needed toiletries are kept.

Not only do I love this idea for storing measuring cups, making them readily accessible, but the conversion chart is brilliant. No more flipping through cookbooks trying to find out how many ounces are in a pint.

Lid organization is one of my biggest kitchen storage issues. Currently they are all stacked on top of each other, but this idea of bars on the door gives me hope.

As a self-proclaimed gift wrap hoarder, I’ve tried plastic garbage bins and those under-the-bed plastic storage bins and nothing has really worked well. I’m really liking this idea of a metal container on wheels. Not only can you see the paper easily, but moving the bin around would be a breeze.

Aren’t these ideas great? They are all pretty easy to implement and really elevate everyday organizing to a new level.

Since I’m in the middle of my organizing binge, I can’t show you the finished results of the spaces I’ve been working on, but I will show you a few highlights.

My dollar store shoe bins are getting prettied with decorative photo tags.

I’m putting Command Hooks to work on the inside of closet doors to hold handbags.

And, I’m adding decorative storage bins to my closet and laundry area.

I’ll show you the finished areas once they are all done. Stay tuned!

Do you have any good organizing tips? Please do share.

Ribbon Love: My Go To Source

January 19, 2012

One of the things I told in my 2012 blog goals post was that I wanted to share with you my love of ribbon and creative and unique ways to gift wrap. We’ll today is the first installment of Ribbon Love and I’m not only sharing with you fun Valentines gift wrap ideas, but also my favorite source for beautiful ribbons, May Arts Ribbon Company.

May Arts is a US based company offering a vast array (thousands) of ribbons in every material, color and style you can imagine. Up until now, May Arts has been available to the trade only, but I’m excited to announce that all of May Arts ribbons are now available to the public on their exclusive May Arts Amazon shop.

Yeah! That means that now you too can buy beautiful ribbon from my favorite ribbon source and share in my ribbon love!

Here’s just a sampling of what they have to offer:

Red Twill Chevron Stripe–available in other colors too!

3″ Satin Ribbon–available in a range of colors and widths!

Grosgrain Leopard Print–What fun!

Fuzzy Pom Pom Ribbon–available in a range of colors

Net Ribbon–such fun to wrap with.

Reversible Satin Ribbon–available in a range of colors and widths! This is one of my favorite ribbons to wrap with.

May Arts doesn’t just inspire you through their enormous offering of ribbons, they also have a newly updated blog full of craft, card and wrapping projects to thrill you as well. And, to celebrate the blog redesign, May Arts is having a fantastic giveaway! Head on over the May Arts blog, check out all the great stuff and enter to win ribbons and much more!

(p.s. I’m a member of the May Arts design team so be sure to follow their blog and check out my ribbon projects).

Now on to the wrapping inspiration.

Presentation is everything and beautiful wrapping makes a gift even more special.

I folded and pleated the paper for this gift and then tied on a beautiful satin ribbon in a red and white diamond print. A red glittered clothes pin holds a white die-cut tag I glued red dots to.

After wrapping my box in red paper, I placed a die cut note card on each end of the box and laced the two together with red and white cotton ribbon. (side view of the notecard above).

To create this look, I layered pink and red paint chip cards on top of each other and wrapped them around the box. I used a white lace ribbon, paper mache heart and pink floral tag to finish the look.

Wrapping gifts is so much fun. I hope you’re inspired and ready to be creative with your gift wrapping and May Arts Ribbon!

Material Source:

All ribbon from May Arts

Red Gift Wrap from Ikea–You may only find it available during certain times of the year but they carry a good selection of solid colored gift wrap.

Die Cut notecards, paper mache heart, pink floral tags and red glitter clothespins from Micheals (all in the $1.00 or 2/$3.00 section–whoopee!)

Paint chips–Home Depot (free)