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{Home} Christmas Cozy

17 Wednesday Dec 2014

Posted by Karen B. in Christmas, House and Home

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Christmas Cozy

 

Garden, Home and Party: Christmas CozyChristmas / Cozy, these two words play well together…in our hemisphere Christmas usually means a cooling trend.  Even in the desert, December is cold at night.

What better way to enjoy the season then wrapped in the comfort of your own home, fire in the grate (if possible) and a throw at your feet.  To me these rooms are cozy and inviting by design and furnishings.

Garden, Home and Party: Christmas Cozy

Artist Carl Larsson

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…one of the coziest homes in blogland…Kelly, of talk of the house always gives us cozy with style.

Garden, Home and Party: Christmas Cozy

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My home version of cozy…this is before the tree went up.

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Here is our tree…

Garden, Home and Party: Happy Christmas 2014

Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see.

~the conductor; The Polar Express (2004)

I hope you are allowing yourself some time just to enjoy the season.  This final week will be hectic to be sure, be safe and have fun in all that you do.  

{Party} Ideas for setting the table for a holiday meal

10 Wednesday Dec 2014

Posted by Karen B. in Christmas, Entertaining, Holidays

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Table Settings

Garden, Home and Party: Table Settings for the season

*I know I posted images of table settings for Thanksgiving, but I really love the inspiration for something a bit different each time I get to set the table for a dinner or lunch.  I hope you’re able to retrieve some inspiration for your holiday entertaining.

One week down, already!  Let’s all take a collective deep breath and slow down.  We need to enjoy the beauty that the season has to offer.  Make time to sip hot cocoa or a cup of tea as you review your ‘to do’ list.

This week I’m sharing table settings dressed for the season.  I realized a long time ago that while I thoroughly enjoy setting a table, most guests are in your home to share some quality time with you, and while they may subconsciously enjoy the lovely setting, its not as important as you may think it is.  That doesn’t keep me from always trying to make it as special as possible, but it does mean we can all relax and keep it simple.  It’s all about enjoying the moment this year.

Garden, Home and Party: Table setting for the season

This is my table for most Christmas entertaining.  The center piece is made up of a bronze reindeer I purchased one winter while visiting a friend in Snowmass, CO.  I love him and I have a florist set him in a low container with florist foam and then it’s filled with various evergreen pine and pine cones and faux berries.  As long as it’s watered as needed, it lasts the entire month.  

{This is last year’s arrangement, this year I went with white berries, pheasant feathers and pinecones.  I’d love to say that it’s still at the florist, but it is in fact sitting on my dining room table.  It’s just been a crazy week and I did not get a picture of it!}  

Garden, Home and Party: Table Settings of the Season

Garden, Home and Party: Table Settings for the Season

This is such a lovely, simple place setting, don’t you agree? White twinkle lights and candlelight, what could be better?

Garden, Home and Party:  Table Settings for the Season

Candlelight, whether achieved with flameless candles or real, makes any tablescape magical.

Garden, Home and Party: Table Settings for the Season

Garden, Home and Party: Table settings of the season

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 You can never go wrong with plaid for Christmas!  Throw in a few nutcrackers and you have the perennial favorite for the season.

Garden, Home and Party: Table Settings for the Season

I like the rustic coasters and name card, paired with sheet music.  I wonder if this is for a caroling party? Wouldn’t that be a fun idea?

Garden, Home and Party: Table Settings for the Season

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This is really a great way to introduce some plaid to the table, a couple of plaid throws doing double duty as table toppers.  I do love an English styled room for the holidays. So inviting.

Garden, Home and Party: Table Setting for the Season

All white, even the Christmas trees are set with white lights and nothing else.  It’s simply elegant.

Garden, Home and Party: Table setting for the season

Delores over at Vignette Design always sets a pretty table.

Garden, Home and Party: Table setting for the season

Garden, Home and Party: Table setting for the season

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Rustic is a favorite look of mine, this setting makes me think it’s a house in a beautiful mountain town….hmm, I wonder.

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This is my table set for New Years Eve last year.

Garden, Home and Party: Table Setting for the Season

What do you like to set the table with this time of year?  

I hope you’ll tune in for next week’s installment—“Christmas Cozy”.  Rooms that are sure to invite you in and help you relax, all the while in a cozy setting.

Countdown to Christmas – Gift wrapping ideas

03 Wednesday Dec 2014

Posted by Karen B. in Christmas, Holidays

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Garden, Home and Party: Gift Wrap Ideas

As we frantically calmly move toward year’s end, and one of my favorite times of year {who doesn’t love Christmas or what ever Winter Holiday celebration you enjoy?}I thought it would be fun to share some ideas for wrapping presents, setting a pretty table, and sharing rooms that evoke a cozy atmosphere over the weeks ahead.  I’m starting this 3-week series with:

Gift Wrap Ideas.

Garden, Home and Party: Gift Wrap Ideas

If you’re like me you need to figure out not only ideas for wrapping presents for family and close friends, but you also probably need a few items for hostess gifts.  The cookie exchange, a ladies’ lunch, or a Christmas dinner party…these gift wrap ideas are especially fun for little gift items, like a special bar of soap, scented candle or pretty scented hand cream and lip balm for the purse, those little presents are especially fun to wrap.  Good things really do come in small packages!

Garden, Home and Party: Gift Wrap Ideas

Garden, Home and Party: Gift Wrap Ideas

The creative gift wrap ideas seem equally worthy for gifts that go under the tree, they are so pretty they would enhance that space under the branches of a decorated tree.

Garden, Home and Party: Gift Wrap Ideas

How to wrap a wine bottle from Ann on Sutton Place is a no-sew idea for a hostess gift.  You can always find great looking kitchen towels at TJ Maxx, Cost Plus or Marshall’s and Ann explains how to wrap a bottle of wine, no sewing required, in said towel.  Suddenly, a bottle of wine is a gift with a bonus!

Garden, Home and Party: Gift Wrap Ideas

So many gift wrap ideas involve butcher paper.  I love it’s simplicity and when paired with a sprig of holly or a red berry wreath it’s a win-win.

Garden, Home and Party: Gift Wrap Ideas

A little sparkle goes a long way.  I love the beautiful, large bows that so many packages are dressed with, but these simple touches share the wow factor too, don’t you think?

Garden, Home and Party: Gift Wrap Ideas

Bonus gift, like the kitchen towel-wrapped wine, this little package is fun since it comes with a candy cane!

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How pretty is this?

Garden, Home and Party: Gift Wrap Ideas

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Most of the above gift wrap ideas have been in my file for some time and I apologize for not having a link to all of them.  Hopefully, they will give you some ideas that are simple to implement.

Garden, Home and Party: Gift Wrap Ideas

Week 1:  I hope you’re better organized than me!  I really need to get going, I have the tree up and most of the decorations but gift buying is still in the planning stages.  Enjoy the week!

 

Merry Christmas

23 Monday Dec 2013

Posted by Karen B. in Christmas, Holidays

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Garden, Home and Party: Merry Christmas

I hope you are enjoying the pleasures of the season…

…hot cocoa by the fire,

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…all your presents are wrapped…

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…you’ve sent and received cards with words of good cheer…

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…you’ve delivered any packages that had to be sent…

Garden, Home and Party: Merry Christmas

…wreathes and garlands are hung, adding fragrance to your home…

Garden, Home and Party: Merry Christmas

because we know the time is near, when Santa will harness his reindeer and make his rounds.

Garden, Home and Party: Merry Christmas

Have a very happy holiday, my friends!  Another year draws to a close, it’s been wonderful.  I wonder what adventure 2014 will bring?

Garden, Home and Party: Merry Christmas

{Home} O Tannenbaum

18 Wednesday Dec 2013

Posted by Karen B. in Christmas, Holidays, Traditions

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Christmas tree

The countdown is on…only 1 week until Christmas.  I’m really getting excited.

O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum,
wie treu sind deine Blätter!

Garden, Home and Party: O Tannenbaum

I know most of you have your holiday decorations up, especially your tree.  Still, I’ve found so many pretty images of trees and I’m at a loss to think of any other topic besides trying to finish my list of presents to buy, things to do, rooms to clean, so here’s some online goodness of my favorite Christmas trees.

You’re green not only
in the summertime,

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Nein auch im Winter, wenn es schneit.

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O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree
How loyal are your leaves/needles!

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adventures in tartanscot

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Centsational Girl

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The Polohouse

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The Polohouse

Garden, Home and Party: O TannenbaumGarden, Home and Party: O TannenbaumGarden, Home and Party: O TannenbaumGarden, Home and Party: O TannenbaumNo matter what size tree you manage this year, I hope you are enjoying the season and are further along on all you need to do in preparation for the holiday than me.  Stop and smell the pine needles. 

{GHP} Wishing you the happiest of holidays

24 Monday Dec 2012

Posted by Karen B. in Christmas

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Greetings

PicMonkey Collage christmas

On this Christmas Eve, wherever you are, I hope you and yours are warm and comfortable and that you celebrate the season surrounded by those you love.

Garden, Home and Party 2012The cards and packages have been sent…

Mailbox 2012The tree is trimmed…

Christmas Tree 2012I hung holly, pine cones, fir and bulbs on any non-moving object…

{I saved Redfern, our pheasant, the indignity of a Santa hat that Mr. B wanted to put on him.}

Redfern, 12.2012The fire is laid, the mantle decorated…

Mantle 2012The table is set…

Dining Table 2011 …and I still hear the bell.

Polar Express, silver bellMerry Christmas, Dear Friends!

{GHP} Wrapped and ready…almost

18 Tuesday Dec 2012

Posted by Karen B. in Christmas, DIY (do it yourself), Holidays, Uncategorized

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gift wrap

1-carl larson image{Carl Larsson}

There are so many great options for gift wrap.  Every year I promise myself I’ll keep it simple and use butcher paper and twine with fresh greens and homemade tags.  I have yet to actually put that thought into action.  Some of the ideas provided below have been in my file for a couple of years now.

2-brownpaper2 oh my 9.16.10{Oh, My}

Many of you have undoubtedly already wrapped your presents and have them artfully arranged under the tree, I hate you…not really.  I usually would have mine wrapped as well, but that extra week really threw me off.  I know, it should have been to my advantage but it was the week of our son’s wedding and I think I abused the extra time.

Here are some inspirational images, if you haven’t wrapped already, and a couple of sites that give you some valuable information for this final push to the magic that is Christmas.

I love the idea (below) of wrapping presents in interesting papers other than standard wrap.  Little maps, foreign newsprint, art paper, let your imagination run wild.

3-martha stewart gift wrapping ideas 2012(Martha Stewart}

I’ve got to hand it to Martha, she/her talented team come up with some clever ways to wrap any present.

4-MS Gift wrap ideas 2012{Martha Stewart}

The packages below are from an older MS tutorial [the link will take you the tutorial] where you can print out some of the graphics shown below, print them on paper and wrap.  Very pretty, don’t you think?

5-MS modern gift wrap{Martha Stewart}

If you prefer the lush, large, beautiful bows on your packages visit my friend Victoria over at Victoria Elizabeth Barnes.  She gives you a tutorial on bow making that is not only informational but hilarious.  I guarantee you a laugh at her clever descriptions of each step, and who can’t delight in some comedy relief this time of year?!

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8-holiday_wrap Paper source

9-party resources 11.30.12Heather Bullard has some creative tips for holiday gift tags.  I imagine you would need to make the fresh tag later in the season so that it wouldn’t be dried out by the time you delivered it but for a hostess gift this would be a gift to add to the gift.

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{Heather Bullard ~ Lifestyle}

I like the idea of an ornament or some kind of tie-on present on top of the package.  One year Pottery Barn wrapped their gifts with an old fashioned key attached to the ribbon.  Williams Sonoma used a small copper pineapple mold to enhance each package.  There are cute things at Michael’s that will enhance a package and maybe hold inside meaning for the recipient.

11-from the right bank 11.29.12{From the Right Bank}

Then there are boxes that need no wrap.  Not that I’ve ever received a HERMÉS anything, but I have received Jo Malone gifts and they have a similar box.  They are beautiful in their own right and need no paper.

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13-wonderful palmetto life, tumblrOr, if all else fails, go green, give a puppy…no wrap necessary.  How cute is this little guy, although I confess, I’d definitely add a red bow around his neck.

14-The House Finch, tumblrAre you wrapped and ready.  Do you enjoy this part of the season or do you have your gifts wrapped, where possible, at the store?  I have always enjoyed this part of the process and used to be the go-to girl for my family where wrapping is concerned.  Do you use double sided tape?  I confess, I’ve not been using it but maybe I’ll get some this year.

{GHP} The plants of the season

11 Tuesday Dec 2012

Posted by Karen B. in Christmas, Flowers, Holidays

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As a former landscape designer (not a landscape architect, but someone who determined what and where to plant in our client’s gardens) I often focus on the natural plant materials we gravitate towards during each of the seasons and holidays.  Not just as living plant material, although some of these do make beautiful landscape plants in the right garden, but the greens that we tend to use in planters (outdoors and in) and table, door and mantle decorations.

It isn’t just about the trees…

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although that is the scene stealer in most homes this time of year…

Garden, Home and Party 12.11.12There’s some great inspiration out there in blogland right now but the site that got the ball rolling for this post was a visit to one of my favorite sites, Debra at 5th and State.  She posted a tutorial on how to plant outdoor urns and planter boxes.  Debra is a talented landscape designer and I believe she owns 2 or 3 shops.  I first found her site during this time about 2 years ago and her topic inspired me to work on my entry urn and planter box.

I’ve worked on our urn since this early attempt (below) at copying the examples provided via 5th and State.  Even this early, unrefined display was a vast improvement from the boring plant I used to have in this spot. (It’s the old “cobbler’s children have no shoes” around here).  The Ilex berries are fake but they offer a spot of color at the front door.

Garden, Home and Party 12.11.12{Garden, Home and Party, 2010}

That same year I planted my metal planter box with red ivy geranium, I should have known better, they complete their blooming cycle just before Christmas!

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{5th and State}

Garden, Home and Party 12.11.12{5th and State}

Here is my urn for this season…

2012, urn, December{The Mother Fern is so happy I didn’t have the heart to change it out for a plant that might be more seasonal.  I added the Ilex berries and pine cones to create a holiday feel to it.}

2012, puti, lantern{I also gave our concrete puti a hat for the season.  The Ikea lantern got a couple of candles, some faux snow and an antique elk}

Close up of lantern, 2012{notice the antique elk is missing most of a leg, I rescued him from an antique store}

Mailbox 2012{Even the mailbox is dressed for the season}

Our entry during the day…

Entry, 2012, daylight…and at night

Entry, 2012, night

Other greens and plants that are popular this time of year are boxwood.  I love them year round, but I was happy to see that Trader Joe’s offered a 22″ boxwood wreath this month for only $9.95 (thanks for the heads up, Glenys).

Garden, Home and Party 12.11.12{Home Bunch}

Even the use of hydrangea, as we see below when mixed with maiden hair fern takes on a holiday flair.  It’s wonderful to see plants other than the traditional poinsettia being used for the holidays.  I still love poinsettia, especially when I can find the white ones, but there are some fabulous options.

Garden, Home and Party 12.11.12{The Polohouse}

The use of birch logs in these urns really give it a wintery look that could easily be on display through the winter months, not too Christmasy, but festive.

Garden, Home and Party 12.11.12{The Polohouse}

Fruit is something that really lends itself to this time of year.  Citrus of any kind, apples and pears…Garden, Home and Party 12.11.12{The Enchanted Home}

{Haus Design}

This months cover of Veranda featured greens that I can’t really identify.  They resemble eucalyptus, but the apples, greens mix beautifully with the rustic wood walls and beams juxtaposed against the French mirror, screen and portrait.  This is one of my all time favorite magazine covers.

Garden, Home and Party 12.11.12{Veranda ~ December 2012}

These ivy topiary and foxglove on the hearth look seasonal due to the roaring fire in the fireplace, but the plants could be representative of spring just as easily.

Garden, Home and Party 12.11.12{Inspired Design}

This boxwood garland is so pretty, I love the deep green color and if it’s the kind that has been treated, it will last forever.

Garden, Home and Party 12.11.12{Style at Home.com}

Forced paper whites, white cyclamen and little juniper bushes, surrounded by cedar branches make such a pretty indoor vignette.Garden, Home and Party 12.11.12{The Enchanted Home}

Garden, Home and Party 12.11.12{Ralph Lauren, Paris store}

Do you have a favorite where winter greens are concerned? 

I’m over at Savvy Southern Style, linking to her Wow Us Wednesdays, join in the fun if you have time.

{GHP} Holiday preparation around the house

04 Tuesday Dec 2012

Posted by Karen B. in Christmas, Collections & Accessories, Decorating, Entertaining, Holidays, House and Home

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Oh my word, is it December 4th already?  Time has evaporated for me but I’m excited for the upcoming season, just give me a minute, I’ll be ready, I promise.

Garden, Home and Party 12.4.12{tumblr ~ That Inspirational Girl}

I would have thought that by cutting my posting by half I would have hours of free time.  Well, somehow the clocks started decreasing the amount of hours in a day and I got behind…Thanksgiving, wedding…those events will do that to a person, no matter how organized they normally are, right?

Meanwhile, Christmas has been on my mind and these images from various sources prove it…

The nutcrackers are out, work is still in progress on our mantle and fresh greens are ordered.

Garden, Home and Party 12.4.12{GHP}

I’ve got some help in the kitchen with my chef nutcracker…I don’t think he’s interested in cracking any nuts but he doesn’t question any of my cooking decisions, so he stays.Garden, Home and Party 12.4.12{GHP}

Charles Faudree inspired me to wrap garlands in unexpected places.  I love this porch in his country home, with the garland-wrapped French poster. Garden, Home and Party{Charles Faudree ~ Pinterest}

Garden, Home and Party 12.4.12{Southern Accents}

I’ve seen several tiered displays online this year, I like the idea, I wonder where I could put one?

Garden, Home and Party 12.4.12{BHG}

Garden, Home and Party 12.4.12{BHG}

The simplicity of this dining table is stunning, I might try it for New Year’s Eve.  {would I have to serve white food?}

GHP 12.4.12{Party Resources}

I didn’t manage to get paper whites started, oh well, there’s always next year.  I do love this display from And George.

Garden, Home and Party 12.4.12{And George}

So, cue Bambi, let the caroling begin, make a batch of egg nog, Christmas is on the way.

Garden, Home and Party 12.4.12{tumblr ~ That Inspirational Girl}

Am I alone, are all of you already decorated, wrapped and ready?  I need a challenge, let me know, it will help me get my act in gear.

Happy December!

{Home} How to make pomanders for the holidays

27 Tuesday Nov 2012

Posted by Karen B. in Christmas, DIY (do it yourself), Holidays, House and Home

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3 days and counting until the wedding of our youngest son.  As a result, I’m re-posting a two-year old post on how to make pomanders for Christmas.  I think I may prepare some of these for our home this year.  I hope you will excuse me for taking an easy way out but I know you’ll understand. 

Originally published November 26, 2010 :: I know this must seem like I’m a little over-eager for Christmas and I am!  This is a post on how to make pomanders and they are best made a couple of weeks before you are using them.  Besides, it’s great to get the jump on the Christmas rush, right?

Garden, Home and Party 12.4.12

Holiday decorations around our home took a major detour once we no longer had young children racing around.  I was free to hang only the ornaments I wanted to hang on the tree (glass blown and a collection of commemorative (metal) White House ornaments).  Years ago a December issue of Southern Accents featured a tree with nothing but glass bulbs and I was SOLD!

This isn’t the exact tree that inspired me but it’s pretty close.

Now that we will be grandparents, any day now, I know that there will come a day when my tree and home will reflect Christmas for children once again, complete with the train that circles the tree, and I look forward to it.  But meanwhile, most of our decorations are what I consider to be natural items, paper whites, amaryllis, white and red cyclamen, bowls of pine cones and greens, evergreen wreaths, garlands AND pomanders (clove studded fruit).

image via Country Living

I learned how to make this simple decoration shortly after I was first married and a friend brought me a clove-studded pear that I was able to use for many years.  I use citrus (oranges, lemons or tangerines) as the base for my Pomanders due to the naturally fresh scent, and when studded with cloves and rolled in a mixture of cinnamon and nutmeg they provide one more Christmas fragrance for our home.

image via Country Living

I thought I’d give you the steps to this simple seasonal decoration.  You will need the following:

  • Citrus fruit of your choice, unblemished
  • 1 bamboo skewer (for poking holes in the fruit where  you want to plant the clove.
  • Whole cloves
  • 1 tablespoon each:  cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves
  • Sandalwood oil (optional, see note*)
  • Ribbon and straight pins if you choose to hang the fruit

I use a citrus zester tool to remove small strips of the upper most layer of skin from the fruit, usually in a pattern of sorts.  (It may be symmetrical lines down the sides or random swirls).

Once I have a pattern figured out, I poke holes with the bamboo skewer (about 5 at a time) and insert the clove in each hole.

You can cover as much of the fruit as you like—the pear I was given so many years ago was completely covered.

Once the piece of fruit is finished roll it in the spices.  I usually store these on a rack in the garage until I decorate for Christmas, the weekend following Thanksgiving.

Pomanderimage via Country Living

Pomanders are as pleasing to the eye as it is to the nose.

*NOTE:  Sandalwood oil is a natural preservative that can be mixed with the spices (4 drops per 2 tbsp of spices).  I haven’t used it in years and find the fruit holds just fine for the season.  I haven’t been saving the fruit from year to year because of where we store our decorations.  I’m concerned that the excess summer heat would rot the fruit no matter what.

Have you ever made pomanders? 

I’m over at Savvy Southern Style at her Wow Us Wednesdays, stop by for some great holiday inspiration.

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