Category Archives: decorating

B is for bottle

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A wine bottle to be more specific.

Mr. Aitch and I drik wine…occasionally.  Most of our wine bottles are the typical green, brownish green, dark green, or very dark green.

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The little bottle on the far right contains a special olive oil now.

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We emptied these this morning. 

Just kidding.

A few years ago I saw a large wreath in one of our local restaurants with 2-3 beautiful red wine bottle, grape leaves and various hanging grapes on it.  I decided to make my own.

We bought the same wine and saved the empty bottle for my project.  I suppose I could have asked the restaurant to save some empties for me but what fun is that?

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My wreath isn’t nearly as large as the one in the restaurant and only one wine bottle fit on it.

But I like it. 

And so did one of the teenage trick-or-treaters we had the other night.  (I whispered to her that the bottle was empty.)

Any suggestions on what to do with all our empty wine bottles?  Please leave suggestions in the comments!

Autumn treat

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In our housing development we share the land with wild turkeys, rabbits, squirrels, various other small animals, deer, and perhaps a bear.

The “beautification” committee uses seasonal plants and other decorative items around the street signs and mail boxes,  A typical autumn sight is corn stalks wrapped in colorful ribbon.

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Evidently the corn stalks are a tasty treat for the deer that wander through here in the evening and early morning.  Mr. Aitch saw one nibbling on this group of stalks on his way home from band practice last night.

Spirit

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For some reason I am in the Christmas spirit.front-door-1.2011

You may think I’m nuts for saying that but the past 10-12-14 years, I have not had much of the Christmas spirit in me.  Last year I put a wreath on the door and hung out the garland on the front porch but no other decorating inside until I found out some friends were coming over.  I rushed to The Barn two days before Christmas and bought a 6 foot tall “primitive” tree at 40% off.  Used a few choice ornaments from my collection and called it Christmas.  Bah humbug.

While I’m in the Christmas decorating spirit, I better do something about it!

MBR makeover

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Last week Mr. Aitch and I went to our daughter’s new-to-her house to help do a makeover in her master bedroom as a surprise to her husband while he was out-of-town.  Was that a run-on sentence?

I don’t have any before pictures and only one after picture but I really like the transformation.

The bedroom was institutional-minty-green with a queen size bed from IKEA.  I’m not knocking IKEA (it is my favorite store) but it was time to grow up.

My daughter has bought old window frames in the past and used them in unique ways.  When she was visiting us in September, she found some great old windows.  We scrubbed them and made sure all the broken glass was removed.  She wanted to transform them into a headboard for a new king-size bed.

She and her husband repainted the minty-green bedroom a nice soft grey the weekend before the great transformation took place.

He went out-of-town for business on that Monday.  Mr. Aitch and I arrived at their house just after he left.  Mr. Aitch kept the twins occupied while we marked the horizontal lines for the feature wall.  The next day we painted three stripes in a lighter grey.

We covered cardboard (saved from moving boxes) that was cut to the window frame measurements with batting and a blue fabric that matched the new bedding (Martha Stewart Chantilly).  We then inserted the covered cardboard into the frames and secured the frames to one another.

Once the new mattress was delivered, we secured the window frames to the wall as the new headboard.

She wants different night stands but the old ones will do for now.

The finished room:

Her husband was very pleasantly surprised with the transformation.  Now he expects something new every time he goes out-of-town.