Yearly Archives: 2024

………………For my Christmas decorations I have created many new CENTER PIECES through out the house…..Starting from left to right….The red vase on the gold charger is the centerpiece on my kitchen table….It’s a combination of different greens, a variety of berries, and gold pods which I had and sprayed. I also added an hydrangea bloom that I also sprayed gold…..At the base are pine cones I sprayed gold too…..The center blue vases are in my dining room on the table. Again, I use a variety of greens and berries…….The gold vase at the right is in my gathering room. Again, I used assorted greens, berries and gold pods…….EVERYTHING is FAUX…….I didn’t want to have to WATER ANYTHING!

…………….All of the above pictures are in my dining room……The two different silver vases on my dining table, one at each side, again have an assortment of greens and different berries….I added RED CARDINALS, which were my mother in laws favorite birds…..The top center photo is an arrangement I put on an end table in the dining room……The theme in the dining room is SILVER, and BLUE, with GREEN & RED accents.

………………Went to se the new movie…..”GLADIATOR”…..with a friend…..We went to the 4:45pm show….The later shows were sold out!…….Ridley Scott is the director, and one thing he knows how to do is a….SPECTACLE!!!!!. The opening battle scene was incredible…..and the recreation of ROME was magnificent. You really felt you were there, and that’s the way it must have been…..The scenes in the recreated Colosseum were unbelievable!…especially when it was flooded with water and there was a  battle ship scene. He captured it exactly as I have always heard it was…….For the spectacle alone it’s worth seeing. I went to an IMAX theater, and it was explosive……Out of 5 stars I would give it 4 1/2….I thought the cast was great, but being honest….I wasn’t loving Denzel Washington. He always gives a good performance, but for me there was just something off, and he had a pivotal role…..so 1/2 less………..Still I recommend it for the spectacle alone, and Ridley Scott!

……………The Christmas Holiday has always been Jac and my favorite time of the year!…….We always went all out decorating every room of the house including the bedrooms and bathrooms!……Over the years we have collected and MADE so many decorations, that whenever we brought them out it was like having old friends over………The three photos at the left are of a large oblong wooden bowl that we brought over from our first house in Darien….so it’s been with me for a long time. I change the decorations of the bowl with each season….It sits on our farm house kitchen table…..For Christmas we always filled it with natural pine cones, birds that we purchased many many years ago, and red tiny bows….This year I decided to change it up a little…..I sprayed some of the pine cones GOLD…..added some red berries, and changed the red bows to TARTAN bows, which has become a theme….The same birds are nestled in…….One of the major things I have added through out the house are my GOLD SPRAY PAINTED HYDREAGEAS which I added sprigs of red berries to…….They are in a variety of vases….some clear glass, and some in gold vases. In the bottoms I have piles of glass ball beads just to give it a nice finish, but crinkled up saran wrap in green or red would look beautiful too! The photos across the top are vases of hydrangeas in my gathering room…….The three photos at the bottom right are in my green library…..The gold hydrangeas are in a gold distressed vase……Spraying the hydrangeas is an easy and inexpensive way to add impressive touches. You can spray them any color that works with your decore……In my dining room I have SILVER hydrangeas…..However, they are VERY brittle and fragile….so the less you play with them the better!……Now to finish decorating the rest of the house!