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An Easy and Inexpensive Valentines Day Fondue Party
Oh how Valentine’s Day changes when you become a parent LOL. Instead the quiet dinners out of years past, me and my husband started a new tradition a few years ago where we stay home with our boys and stuff ourselves full of cheese and chocolate fondue! This year I thought it’d be fun to crank up the volume of our little family dinner and turn it into a fun party full of lots of really simple DIYS – and TONS of sugar! Coming off of the crazy spending frenzy that comes with the holiday’s I really challenged myself to be super thrifty this time around. In…
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Christmas Home Tour 2018
It’s officially one week to Christmas and to celebrate I’m sharing with you my final blog of the season (and the year!) and taking you on an extended tour of Holiday Hilltown House. I already shared the small touches I made to the boys bedroom and the guest room in my last few posts but today I want to share the common areas of our home that got the full Deck the Halls treatment. I fully intended to not worry about the living room since I decorated it last year, but I found that just by making a few small changes I became so much happier with the…
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My simple formula for a Festive Fireplace
So yesterday morning I woke up to the most amazing early Christmas present – one of my all time favorite blogger/designer/just awesomely good people Emily Henderson shared my front room fireplace on her blog in a Holiday decor round-up. To say I am still in disbelief in being included in such a beautiful group of inspiration photos is an understatement and I am amazingly thrilled! To celebrate, I decided to push this blog up a day early because it couldn’t be any more timely. I joke that the reason I keep building fireplaces is so I can decorate them for Christmas (I have 1 real and 2 faux…
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Quick and easy ideas to decorate a kid’s room for the Holidays
One of my fondest memories of from my childhood Christmases was unpacking the box of decorations my mom kept for me to decorate my own room – small ceramic angels, snowglobes, music boxes, and of course my little tree that I would decorate with extremely meaningful ornaments (many of which are on our living room tree at this very moment). This is a tradition that I very much want to pass along to my boys, but beyond putting a little tree in their room last year I have sadly never gotten around to decorating anything else for them. This year, though, I quite unintentionally found myself adding small touches as…
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Keeping things simpler this Christmas, without losing the holiday magic!
Let’s rewind things to last December shall we? I had just purged most of my old holiday decor and wanted to expand my decorating skills by coming up with a really great design for my living room – but I was also incredibly sick and running on fumes so things didn’t turn out as good as I was hoping. Luckily the nice thing about Christmas is that it comes around every year, which means a new opportunity to keep what works and get rid of what doesn’t! Flash forward to 2019 and feeling 100% better! In fact I was feeling so good that my holiday cheer spilled into…
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November Round Up
I’m pretty sure we just skipped November this year….Honestly, anyone else feel like it was just a blur? I’m determined no tpt let December pass me by too so we are now fully immersed in the holiday spirit here at Hiltown House! I’ll be sharing all of the Christmas goodness very soon, but if you missed any of my Thanksgiving posts be sure to check them out: A Warm and Colorful Thanksgiving Table My Thanksgiving Menu Acts of Kindness Advent Calendar I am so excited to finally share a project I’ve been working on for a long time with all of you! Since last Christmas I’ve been putting…
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A Warm and Colorful Thanksgiving Table
It’s almost time for my absolute favorite holiday! Don’t give me wrong, I love Christmas and all the merriment that it entails, but as I’ve gotten older Thanksgiving has become number one in my book. I was talking to my Mother in Law just today about why that is, and I think it’s because each day of the long Thanksgiving weekend brings along a different kind of celebration from the feast on Thursday, to the yearly shopping on Friday, to the breaking out of the Christmas decorations on Saturday and Sunday. For the last 3 years we’ve hosted Thanksgiving dinner at our house for mine and my husband’s…
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A Halloween Table Fit For a (Evil) Queen
Every year before we venture out Trick or Treating, I invite some family members over for a quick dinner of Braised Short Ribs and Pasta to fuel up for our marathon candy seeking session (you can find that recipe as well as some of our favorite Halloween goodies here). To make things a little more fun (and a little more spooky) I took my oldest sons “advice” and decided this was the perfect opportunity to use our new dining room for the first time ever! The beautiful gray velvet chairs and my handmade white table made the perfect backdrop to continue the Evil Queen/Fairy-tale vibe I already…
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Halloween Home Tour
The weather has finally changed, the trees are turning, and it is time to embrace all things Halloween! My boys just love this holiday – last year they kept the faux outdoor skulls and played with them in the backyard all summer (a little macabre I know) – so I had fun this year turning up the spooky factor in our house. I try to embrace the creepy more than the scary and I really wanted my Haloween touches to blend in with our style, so to do that I imagined I was decorating an Evil Magic or Curisosity shop (think Borgin and Burkes from Harry Potter…
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Fall Decor Living Room Tour
I wish I could say I’m writing this on a cool, crisp Autumn morning with the waft of pumpkin candle floating through the house – but the truth is the weather out her has been CRAZY and we have had more hot and humid days than I’d like to admit. Regardless, that didn’t stop me from channeling my inner Sweater Weather and decking out the living room for fall. I grew up in a house that changed with the seasons so changing out my decor regularly is something that I really like to do. Last year I made myself go through all my seasonal decor and get rid of anything…
