post Christmas decor

Indeed the cleansing has begun.

Nope, not making one of those weird resolutions that includes a "cleanse".

 ewwww.

BUT of course the stuff must come down

and go OUT

and as much as I love all the decorations & merry-ment. 

TRULY, I do. 

Getting it all out is just...cleansing! 

However, the cards are up??!

YES, please. 

I love love love my christmas cards and they will stay for a while past the Holidays...

 They circle my dining room 

(this is the "hub" of our little cottage) 

and are clipped up but no tape, no pokes, no piles.

Because I like to see each and every one smiling at us & don't want them with holes or stickyness because they all get put into a book each year. 

I've strung up natural twine, with little swag here & there

using clear push pins into my molding.

I know, shame. Oh well.

And then get a bunch of those smaller (not teeny) clothespins

and spray with adhesive & then glitter away! 

I do this into a box outside. 

It SMELLS. And I'm pretty sure

using logic of what I hear bout fumes

Its not so good for you. 

But it works. 

I love this brown/copper color...not at all red/green so I don't get sick of is so quick! 

AND

it is sparkly & cheerful 

instead of simply holiday 

but that's just me. 

 The other part I re did was the mantle. 

It kinda made me sad taking it all down...

and I figured, 

why should I have to? 

After all it is still winter, right?

So. 

I left up and redid it for winter...

I had made those pompoms from the ever darling book

Farm Chicks Christmas

Moved over the JOY ornament

erased the Merry Christmas 

and voila! 

 Winter it is!

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