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Festive GREENery

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"Christmas with a conscience



reduce


reuse


recycle


rejoice!"



Be green, buy green . . . abode!

Live Green!

These days green means so many things.  You hear of the family in New York who attempt to live a fully sustainable life for a year, the elementary school class in Vermont that meet and beat their monthly recycling goals and the brave biologists who risk life and limb to save endangered species to benefit future generations.

At abode we try to live our seasonal mantra:
"Christmas with a conscience
reduce
reuse
recycle
rejoice!"

Be green, buy green . . . abode!

iT's So eASy bUyinG GreeN!!

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Vintage Christmas Monday

As a child at Christmas time I was happiest while lying on the floor, listening toRobert Shaw and His Orchestra or the MoTabs on the stereo, and gazing up at the shiny glass ornaments on the tree. I had my favorites, like the dainty little teapots, one red and one blue. The bells, of course. The pine cones,

because they had glitter. And the big silver balls with the red and blue stripes. They weren't all that pretty but I guess I liked them because they were bigger than my hand. I would lie there on the itchy carpet for hours, dreaming about what was in the boxes, what Santa would bring, and about life.



I thought I'd share a few ways I'm decorating with my vintage glass ornaments this year, since I doubt they will make their way onto the tree. My kids are pretty picky about keeping the same ornaments on the tree year after year - must be a tradition or something - and my "new/old" baubles just don't fit the bill. . . gee, Mom, how dense ARE you??? That big glass "bowl" is actually a huge vintage light fixture. . . .


And, as promised, here are the Beer Bottle Wise Men! Hmmm, must be "no deposit no return" with those sequins glued to their tummies and feet.