Modernize Your Home Holiday Decorating

Isn’t that wreath spectacular? Danielle from 100 Layer Cake made it using a wreath frame and found branches from her neighborhood magnolia trees. She spray painted the green side of each leaf with gold and then assembled it using wire. And she claims it’s really not as complicated as it looks. Amazing!

Jillian created the garland for the mantel using styrofoam balls she spray painted with copper, gold, and silver. She strung them using a needle and heavy string and then hung them from teeny nails hidden behind the drop of her mantel.

Cute party shoes, no? Clearly the fashion at a holiday party in a home with modern decorations like this would be bold and sparkly.

Love the illustrated ornaments for an easy little project to dress up any part of your house this time of year. Jillian drew them and guess what? You totally can too!

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Fire, Fire, Everywhere

(Expresione fireplace, courtesy of Planika Fires)The calendar may have read only October, but the first snowstorm of the season already swiped the Eastern seaboard, from Maine to Maryland, catching many people unprepared.  And it’s not even officially winter yet!

As thoughts scurried to winter coats, blankets, and the like, I started to dream about fireplaces…the warmth from the flames, the romantic glow of the dancing amber and red colors.  Then I woke up to chilly reality….I live in an apartment that never had fireplaces and never will.  But of course, some imaginative minds thought – let’s solve that!

Enter the “faux” fireplace.  They don’t require a chimney flue, gas, or electricity –

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