This time of year, once the family has packed up themselves and their gifts and headed home, I am itching to pack up the holiday Foof that fills my home and get my halls undecked. I am ready to enjoy simple surroundings with items like this elegant bloom.
The opulence in the cottage makes me so happy, until it doesn’t and all of a sudden, it is clutter to me. Then I right then, right now, want it gone. Typically, Sugarwings wants me to leave it up til after New Years so I do. Right now, I’m busy with getting ready for the next Good Juju sale, so I am honoring the grand fairy’s request and keeping my priorities in line by making price tags instead of hauling tubs of glittering pretties to the closet.
A compromise in starting the undecking was to clear out the gingerbread houses. When the kids were little, we’d take them to the woods for the fairies to live in. Now, I had them over to the hens to peck at and enjoy.
I’m not sure how much they will eat, but they do enjoy the novelty.
And I enjoy having just a little less stuff on my dining table.