Obviously there are going to be different flowers available and growing in different countries of the world. I grew up in England so I know what it is like to have a Christmas in Winter and there are not many flowers. You could decorate your house with many other things, like:

Sprig of Rosemary
Pine needles or cones
Oranges studded with cloves
or a bunch of Cinnamon sticks
They not only look great they smell great too.

As it is Summer here in Australia, we still have flowers blooming, my garden is full of Hydrangeas and Agapanthas, so I have decorated my house with these flowers. They are such pretty flowers, it is just a shame that they don’t smell.

Outside in the garden

Inside the house

They have just great flowers, I had to take a couple of close ups.

Do you decorate with flowers?, if so which ones?, if you don’t what do you use?.

Christmas:
Gingerbread Tree
Christmas Card Tree

Have you ever found yourself at the end of the day, when the children have all gone to bed, look around your house and think, oh my what happened to this house, it looks like a bomb has hit it. There are only two of them, surely they can’t make that much mess.

I have this feeling most days, I just take a deep breath and start at one end of the house and work my way through to the other end, toys from one end to the other. It is pointless cleaning them all up during the day, as they just get them all back out again 10 mins later. I try to tidy up as we go, but sometimes it just gets a bit much, certainly when you are trying to cook dinner.

At least most of the time it is clean mess, and can be resolved by putting the toys in the boxes or bedrooms and all done.

I got these great storage cupboards from Ikea, all I do is throw all the toys in the boxes at the end of the day, all sorted. I know that they are all going to be emptied again the next day so I don’t sort them or anything, I did try sorting them all out once, I sorted into size toys, blocks, trains, trucks etc, but it drove me crazy so now they all go in together.  These ones are in the kitchen/dining room.

Of course the day that I write this the house doesn’t look to bad. Picture for you of the storage boxes in the Living Room, very tidy really, I should have done better than this, I will update if room messy tomorrow.

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