Furious Shirley » inspiration http://furiousshirley.com/blog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:39:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Christmas Tree Inspiration http://furiousshirley.com/blog/2009/12/05/christmas-tree-inspiration/ http://furiousshirley.com/blog/2009/12/05/christmas-tree-inspiration/#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:16:46 +0000 Shannon Shirley http://furiousshirley.com/blog/?p=1428 read more »]]> I am so excited about Christmas I can hardly stand it!  Last year we just had a mini [fake] pine tree, daintily decorated and placed on a side table … our place was tiny and we couldn’t accommodate a full sized tree.

2008 tree

Ava was only a little over a month old and spent most of the day sleeping, completely oblivious to the mound of presents waiting to be opened.IMG_1927

This year she is running all over the place and into everything, so I am chomping at the bit to get our tree and finish putting up all of our holiday decorations.  Despite the fact that I am trying to be more eco-conscious this year, we are going to pick out our [real] evergreen today.  I want the house to be filled with the scent of pine and a big full tree and memories of Christmas’ of my youth.  My dad was a big pine tree fanatic – he planted them all over our property and I’m all for planting trees too – at sites like goevergreen.org you can ‘plant’ a pine for $35.00 – good stuff!

Now we have tons more space and I am going to take advantage of it!  I’m still deciding how I want to trim our tree and spent some time looking at other people’s decorations on Flikr for some inspiration.  Here’s what I found …

via boopsie.daisy – so bright and colorful!  and love the sweet stuffs on that sofa, turning formal into fun!

christmasboopsie

via craftybeaver – the tinsel tree looks great w/ those walls – so retro!

holidaze

via floodinpdx – great alternative tree … such a natural look … and i’ve gotta have those lights!

branchtree

via ATLITW – i would keep this up all year round … genius!

atlitwtree

via dottie angel – very crafty, very inventive, very awesome

whatnottree

via Super*Junk – so adorable for a kids’ room … and i just love that rug.

pipecleanertree

via Simple Tess – so simple and some would say bare, but i really like it.  sometimes less is more.

simpletess

via matt-pearson – another simple, yet very elegant look.

whitelights

]]> http://furiousshirley.com/blog/2009/12/05/christmas-tree-inspiration/feed/ 0 For The Love of the Blog http://furiousshirley.com/blog/2009/06/01/for-the-love-of-the-blog/ http://furiousshirley.com/blog/2009/06/01/for-the-love-of-the-blog/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:50:00 +0000 Shannon Shirley http://furiousshirley.com/blog/?p=322 read more »]]> I have that ‘need a vacation from my vacation’ feeling only it’s ‘need a weekend from my weekend’.  What happened to those days I used to wallow around complaining, “There’s nothing to do” in an overly dramatic tone?  Oh right – baby.  Wouldn’t trade the chaos of motherly love for anything, but everyone needs a little R&R and throughout the week, I find mine in cute, fanciful, darling little blogs like these ….

cherryblossom1

shoes accessories

The Cherry Blossom Girl is Alix – a young, French fashion designer with a love of all things pretty.

artandghosts

artandghosts1

artandghosts2

Join Louise in her whimsical world of Art and Ghosts … beautiful works [there's also and Etsy store!] and plenty of imagination.

madebygirl

madebygirl12

Made by Girl is made by Jennifer Ramos [she makes the colorful cards and prints in the pic above] and her blog is all about inspiration, color, and design.

hiddenworldeloise

The Hidden World of Eloise … speaks for itself.  Happy Monday … XO

pocketmirrorpostcard

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