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This Is Why I Avoid This Store

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A work project caused me to go into Hobby Lobby yesterday. My love-hate (mostly hate) relationship with this place usually keeps me away but I went and now I’m dissatisfied with things here at home.

A burning desire to start changing my home is currently simmering in my mind and soul. It’s funny because I ordinarily think my home is decorated nicely with the mixed bag of things I’ve collected over the years. Now it just seems disjointed and overwhelming. Funny how that happens!

To add insult to injury, I found this image in a magazine last night and now am jonesing for this chair. Doesn’t that leather look yummy?

Actually, I like everything about this room. Who would have thought to use a vintage cooler as an ottoman? Those stacked crates make a nice side table but also double as storage.

Perhaps I’ll move some things around this long weekend and try reinventing some of what I own. It’s a fun way to pass the time!

Christmas Bells

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow did the world a great service by publishing his poem “Christmas Bells” which you likely know as “I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day.”

Merry Christmas, my friends.

Christmas Bells
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Till ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime,
A chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound
The carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And in despair I bowed my head;
“There is no peace on earth,” I said;
“For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men.”