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piThis post was written for Houseblogs.net as part of a sweepstakes sponsored by SC Johnson's a href="http://www.rightathome.com"Right@Home/a./i/p pIt's hard to believe that this will be our sixth Christmas here since a href="http://www.houseinprogr [Read More]

They are already playing Christmas songs on the radio...the trees and other Christmas things have been in the stores since before Halloween.  Usually this bothers me and I just ignore it until the day after Thanksgiving but for some reason this yea [Read More]

This is my box of Christmas memories- past, present, and future. A satin Hallmark ornament from a first Christmas at 2 months old. A three year old's thumbprint mouse on a canning lid. A painstakingly painted ceramic donkey, with brushstrokes as s [Read More]

It seems wrong to be thinking about Christmas before Thanksgiving, but since this contest wants to know what we do in our homes for the holidays, and we visit my mother-in-law (in warm, sunny delightful south Florida) for Thanksgiving, I have to thin [Read More]

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How are we getting ready for the holidays? We're planning to have a quiet, travel-free, chaos-free holiday season, involving time off (for a change), some relaxing (new to us), and sitting by the new pellet stove. Oh, of course we'll be doing some wo [Read More]

Over at Houseblogs.net (in conjunction with SC Johnson's www.rightathome.com contest) they've asked how you prepare for the holidays.  This year is a bit different at casacaudill as we'll be taking a break from our regular tradition of spending the [Read More]

(Yes, housebloggers, it’s yet-another-last-minute-blog-post on this topic. Sorry!) If you thought  Halloween was elaborate, wait until Christmas at our house. Christmas decorating is extremely important, so much so that one year where Thanksgi [Read More]

I always wait until the day after Thanksgiving (just like everyone else) to do the decorating, but this year it may just have to start earlier. One of my friends already has her tree up in order to enjoy it the normal length of time, since this ye [Read More]

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Holiday Peace Light Prior to moving to Brooklyn, I lived in a western Massachusetts college town for a fairly long time.  It was a small house on a street that had been built and developed mostly in the 1970’s.  On that street I met a neig [Read More]

This is my first holiday season in my first home and I am so excited. I tend to go a little overboard when it comes to Christmas (imagine 4 Christmas trees in a 500 sq ft apartment), but I can't help it, it's my favorite time of year.br /br /div sty [Read More]

This post was written for Houseblogs.net as part of a sweepstakes sponsored by SC Johnson’s Right@Home.Decorating for Christmas this year will be a lot different from previous years. We lived in our last house for 11 years, and have only lived in t [Read More]

SC Johnson has teamed up with HouseBlogs.net for an essay contest about holiday decorating. Those that know me, know that I enjoy creating a comfy warm holiday feeling to my home, fortunate to have many family heirlooms to mix with my own collections [Read More]

This year, I am having my first-ever holiday party. That means I have been working hard to get the house in decent shape by Thanksgiving weekend.So far, we have installed some new coat hooks from Rejuvenation in the hallway, installed new lights in [Read More]

I don’t know why I started in the north corner of the attic when I began cleaning it out in December of 2004, shortly after Helen’s death. Perhaps it seemed the least daunting. There were a set of wooden shelves built into the eaves, and one of t [Read More]