Yes, my friends, it’s that time of year. Time to skip right past Thanksgiving and go straight to Christmas.
Shopping at Hobby Lobby last night, I bought some deco junk and then raided the home stash to try to get something done before our town’s Holiday Happening’s festivities kick off this weekend (with a lighted parade this evening, that will probably be in the rain. Oh joy.)
So, for the last 5 hours I’ve been (a) helping customers or (b) fiddling with crap. I warpped the pole with greenery and lights but after I hung the quilt up, it looked like crap. The dark greenery looked awful with the acid green. So the light and greenery (that was a pain in the tush to put UP, came back down.) And now I have this:
I found the stacking boxes at Sam’s Club, and don’t they look AMAZING with the quilt and the pole and the red and white checkerboard???
What I think I need (in addition to wiping the sand and crud off the front of the shop) is MORE of those boxes. Like, I don’t know: 3 or 4 stacks of those boxes!!!
And so now, even though it took me 5 hours to just get this much done, all of a sudden, while looking at this picture, the BAH and the HUMBUG have apparently disappeared. Too bad I can’t just run to Sam’s Club right now.
I have to figure out what the heck I’m going to do with the pumpkins that I pulled out of the window, though. Maybe my Mom wants them to make pumpkin-y things like bread. Mom?
Wow, Suzanne! Your town has a lot of celebration type thingies! Love the window and yes! the boxes are terrific!
Love the boxes. The pole might do with some wide red ribbon around it, too. Sort of like a candy cane? Maybe not, though. How about some icicle lights hanging from the ceiling?
I have so many Christmas decorations at home, it’s a shame you don’t live closer. I could donate them to the shop! LOL!
She could make pumpkin bread to give out to customers during the festival!
Your shop looks so good. I am glad your town still has festivals and parades for the holidays, many don’t. Yes add more boxes and you could always add tinsel for glitz. (We always added tinsel to scraggy Christmas trees made them look much better!)
The window is looking terrific! Yep, more of those boxes…and some lights
Your shop window looks great. It would definitely draw me in! Good job Suzanne!
Something along the bottom? The space between the bottom of the quilt and the floor of the display window is sooo negative, it just drew my eye immediately. Do the boxes HAVE to stack? Can you just add more onto the floor of the window nestled in wide ribbon and maybe some tulle?
Do you or someone you know have an old sleigh? That would look cool underneath the quilt. You could stack some boxes on the sleigh.
Hmm, I just happened to bookmark a pumpkin gingerbread recipe from Judy Laquidera’s blog just yesterday.
The window looks great, will check it out in person in the morning.
uh oh, I misspelled Laquidara
I love the scene in your window! Those boxes look like you wrapped them to match the quilt! Love it! Go out and get more boxes NOW!! I would put white batting on the floor of the window and nestle the boxes in it…
Maybe some of those jumbo sized ornaments “tossed” onto batting with 1 box tipped over like the ornaments spilled out? I love that quilt! It’s just adorable in person!
Great display, Suzanne!