Falling in Love With What is Left

In my world of personal design,

particularly at Christmas,

I can honestly say

I enjoy

 

falling in love with what’s LEFT.

 

That is what really makes my heart skip a beat…

For me it usually starts after Christmas, the previous year.

I gather treasures that survived the jostling

and the jamming on shelves and Christmas departments

all over town.

 

It is like a Christmas flea market.

 

Did I know ahead of time, for example, with all sorts of decorative planning, that I would love

these vintage-like, dull silvered, glittered floral picks ?

No,

but when they were 75% off at Thad’s in Spring last year,

I fell in love.

When I bought these mercury glass votives from

Laurie Anna’s in Canton this summer,

did I know how I would use them?

No,

but it sure was fun to pull them out.

The list goes on.

I fell in love with these glittered trees last year.

My daughter Lauren gave them to me for Christmas.

So this year was a great surprise when I pulled them out of the Christmas closet.

She also found the silver glittered birds and churches just last week.

There is beauty everywhere this Christmas season.

As I visit blogs,

look through magazines,

and

slowly but surely venture out into the world of shopping,

I am in awe.

Someone somewhere took a spark of an idea,

probably standing in the middle of her (my)

living room,

in her nightgown,

late at night,

using a God given talent,

and what they had ,

with a smile on her face,

she fell in love

with

what was

left.

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