Day: January 6, 2011

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2010 Books

My goal for 2010 was 50 books.  I didn’t make that.  But I am proud that I read 40+ and that I really enjoyed most of them.  There were a few books this year that I started but didn’t finish.  I did not include those on this list.

You Don’t Look like Anyone I Know by Heather Sellers
Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
My Fair Lazy by Jen Lancaster
The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain
South of Broad by Pat Conroy
Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Promises to Keep by Jane Green
The Shack by William Paul Young
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Dewey by Vicki Myron
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
When a Man Loves a Weapon by Toni McGee Causey
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
House Rules by Jodi Picoult
Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinsky
Such A Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster
The Killer’s Wife by Bill Floyd
An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish
Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

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Everything Else

Christmas Decorations

I just realized I didn’t post the photos I’d taken of our other Christmas decorations.  I also took a few photos with my new camera of my parents decorations & tree I thought I’d share.  After these I promise to move on to 2011!

B aka Annie gave me this ornament for my birthday! Love it!  Thanks B!

Below are the two end tables on our den. I usually spread some of these decorations out in different places in the house so they aren’t as cluttered, but that didn’t happen with all the traveling this December.  The one of the left is more funky/pink & the right is more classic (I think they’re all hand-me-downs from my mom!)

I’ve done this for the past couple of years: place plain, brightly colored ornaments in a pretty crystal bowl.  I first put in large ones, then midsized & finally top it with tiny balls {yes, I did type tiny balls! ha I’m 12!}

This year I added red Pottery Barn small laterns to the mantel & I can’t remember putting that silver ornament shaped dish or the silver ornaments in the greenery before.  I really like the way it turned out.  My favorite: waking up after Jason on a weekend morning & coming into the den all lite up!

Here’s a few of my parents house & their tree.  I took some of the tree pictures using the candlelight scene setting & some on auto. I love the romanticness {yes I’m making that a word}of the candlelight setting.

I love Mom’s Santas on the old-school cabinet TV & end table in the den.  The Pottery Barn deer are a mix of gifts from friends & after-Christmas sale last year. Also check out that *vintage* {aka old} Christmas card holding stocking.  Our stockings are hung in the basement with the same prelit greenery I have as well as the Pottery Barn holder spelling out PEACE & JOY.

I’ve loved getting ideas from all your decorations post. Guess mines better late than never right?!