Christmas dinner part I: decor
This week: food. And decor that goes with food. Because I have been eating quite a lot of quite delicious food lately and have been feeling only slightly guilty about it because after all it is Christmas and my birthday and Tuesday and I’m only 20 pounds over my goal weight and mmm…cheese (burp). So…I’ll … Read more
Store your ornaments
Save the plastic container that packages apples (especially from Costco), to store Christmas ornaments. Everything remains visible, easy to shelve and protected.
Decorate your houseplants
If you have houseplants, you have instant Christmas decor. Put your presents beneath one, and forgo the tree entirely. It’s an easy way to give your house (and plants) a bit of cheer. The vintage-looking ornaments are from TJ Maxx.
Wall plates
Beige craplastic switch plates, the universal standard in suburbs everywhere, should and can be replaced cheap. It’s a subtle switchover that makes a big difference, and ties in or highlights certain features of your decor, like the metallic in the room, or the color of wood. All of the below wall plates cost from FREE … Read more
Cheep relaunch
Welcome back to a new Cheep. I decided to start fresh, for a few reasons. First, the short and realistic one: This blog is now on WordPress, because my former Cheep site, hosted by Typepad, was beginning to show some fugly cracks. I will migrate the best posts over from the old hag, but this … Read more
Cheep backgrounder
Starting a public-facing blog begs self-examination. I think things like, “Seriously, who do you think you are? What do you know about any of this stuff? You think you’re a simulacrum of Tim Gunn and Padma Lakshmi and Anthony Bourdain and those Brits from Changing Rooms (the much better BBC precursor to Trading Spaces. And … Read more
