{"id":25374,"date":"2014-12-07T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=25374"},"modified":"2014-12-07T19:57:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T00:57:32","slug":"christmas-foyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=25374","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Foyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings, everyone.\u00a0 I am keeping our Christmas decorations low-key this year.\u00a0 Here’s the deal: \u00a0 Jordan and Yankee and Mr. Right and I are going to be off of the grid for Christmas this year.\u00a0 We have planned a big trip together, and we are focusing more on it than on decorating..\u00a0 Plus, Mr. Right is spending this week in another country and isn’t here to enjoy them.\u00a0 Since I am not one to put up Christmas decorations until Thanksgiving has been put away, that really only leaves one week to enjoy a decorated house.\u00a0 In the keeping it real category, that’s what’s going down around here.\u00a0 I really didn’t want to go to a lot of work just to decorate the house to get some blog posts out of it.<\/h3>\n

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That being said, I did buy the most beautiful poinsettia for the foyer table.\u00a0 The county has an agriculture program for high school students, and in the fall they grow poinsettias to sell at Christmas.\u00a0 During the spring semester, they grow the most beautiful ferns.<\/h3>\n

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The plants go on sale the Monday after Thanksgiving and are as fresh as you can get.\u00a0 Plus, they are a super bargain at only $12.00 each for the large ones.\u00a0 I put it in this container<\/a> that I tweaked last year.<\/h3>\n

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Since I replaced the former bench in the foyer with this marble-topped dresser<\/a>, I finally have a place for vignettes, and this is a nice one that we walk past many, many times a day.<\/h3>\n

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The red in the flowers really brings out the red and green in the plates hanging on the wall<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

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To go along with the poinsettia, I brought out three of the vintage post cards that I framed and matted in polka dots two years ago.\u00a0 Plus, I added a more neutral lamp.<\/h3>\n

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In case you haven’t thought about it, vintage post cards make great little works of art.\u00a0 We have them for all seasons.<\/h3>\n

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I also bought and hung our fresh wreath this week-end.\u00a0 It get direct sun, and so it’s important to not hang it too early.\u00a0 That door really isn’t as dirty as it looks in the photo.\u00a0 I don’t know what that glare is all about, but it’s the first day we have had real sunshine in a while, and I wanted to take advantage of it.<\/h3>\n

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I have really be enjoying the Christmas decorations in blogland this year.\u00a0 You all have such energy and creativity.\u00a0 I’ll let you do the work this year, and I’m just going to sit back and enjoy it.\u00a0 Thanks for stopping in.<\/h3>\n

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Take care.<\/h3>\n

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Linking to Between Naps on the Porch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greetings, everyone.\u00a0 I am keeping our Christmas decorations low-key this year.\u00a0 Here’s the deal: \u00a0 Jordan and Yankee and Mr. Right and I are going to be off of the grid for Christmas this year.\u00a0 We have planned a big trip together, and we are focusing more on it than on decorating..\u00a0 Plus, Mr. Right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25374"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25374"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25390,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25374\/revisions\/25390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}