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Vintage American Home was voted Among the Top Retailers to get a great deal on Home Goods!!
Yay! What a surprise to see that Rachel Seis of the vote Vintage American Home as one of the top ten retailers from which to get a good deal for home goods!! Thanks so much Rachel! Make, Do and Mend
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Decorating with Vintage Christmas Houses
This year my daughter, Emily and I experimented on a theme we started way back. We used the little cardboard frosted houses to decorate the family room for Christmas. We have been putting the larger houses on the shelves of the book case in the room for a number of years. This year we added…
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Christmas Decorating – Inside and Out!
Check out my different blog posts with decorating ideas for inside and outside. More Christmas Decorating Blog Posts under “Holiday” Section of the blog. See the pull down menu at top.
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Decorating the Outside of Your House for Christmas
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Time for Fall Holiday Decorating!
Here are a few pics of this years planter arrangements I made for my Front Porch. I am loving the white pumpkins the best. I also included kale, mondo grass, some kind of purple perrenial and yellow pansies. I dug up some liriope and stuck it in a pot for one of the planters…
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Summer Livin!
More pictures of my Ocean City house.
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Where can you get the Best Decorating ideas?
I used to be a decorating magazine hoarder. My husband would find Country Living Magazines and Better Homes and Gardens magazines squirreled away in all kinds of hiding places. I have had some magazines for many years. At one point my mom and I cut out all of the best pages and saved them…
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Where can you sell your own furniture?
January is a great time to clean out, reorganize and re decorate. I like to get going on indoor projects at this time of year because pretty soon it will be time for Mother’s Day, gardening, graduations and vacations! (I can’t wait). But now is the time to be inside and concentrate on those…
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Christmas House Tour
Well, I still am not done decorating but who ever is? Here are some photos of this year’s decorations. It’s good to get ideas from other people’s efforts. But always remember the real meaning of the Season. And also remember that many times the lights don’t work, the tree dries out, the presents don’t…
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Decorating My “Designer” Christmas Tree: Step-by-Step
I purchased this tree a number of years ago, and over the years it has been decorated in a number of “themes” and color schemes, but this one is by far my favorite! It looks a little like a Charlie Brown Christmas tree with its stick-like branches in the “before” pictures, the separation of the…
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