I’m going to run with the ‘half full’ mentality this advent. I need it.
The problem is that I am a sucker for those magazines that show homes decorated for the holidays with a warm, cozy and clean (clean is a must) style. Where every room has red ribbon, Christmas quilts, pine boughs, festive pillows, candles, cheery fire light, well wrapped gifts and where even the white fabric is ‘white’. I love those rooms, except I do wonder who dusts them. We’re not there yet, we may be some day in about 10 years or perhaps never.
Today, I’m not even sure where all the Christmas boxes are, what we threw out before we moved, where it all goes or how we get the lights on the house. I sure don’t know how to decorate a barn… but I’d love to. Our home might be half restored and half remodeled, but our “glass” is certainly ‘half full‘ not half empty. I’m going to embrace the advent season with whatever little I can do and do my best to stay in the ‘half full’ mentality. In my attitude, I’m ready advent, I’m ready snow. In my yard… time to remove pumpkins.
So, here’s my contribution to helping you decorate if you can’t find your Christmas stuff….spray paint. Gather up interesting dry weeds, holly, dead branches (which I know you have) and spray paint them white or silver or gold or whatever. You can even sprinkle glitter on while the paint is still wet. You can make a wreath with old branches pretty easily, and paint it. Go wild….pine cones, pumpkins…well, maybe not pumpkins. The beauty of it is, when Christmas is over, it just all goes in the burn pile! I did this the year we were getting ready to remodel, and it made life so much easier!
I think snow is the best decoration!