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……………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!