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While on the road last week I purchased a rug at the Crate and Barrel rug outlet in Kittery, Maine. There are only a few outlet locations and that’s a damn shame because there were some great finds.

It would match my CB2 acrylic console. I have figured out how to bring home a good number of things on the road, but I knew this was beyond my abilities to fit in a suitcase.

CB2 acrylic coffee table at outlet

This lampshade was huge and quite on sale.

lampshade at outlet

They had a lot of ornaments.

ornaments at outlet

I especially liked these ornaments.

pulp ball ornament at ornament

A grouping of them together would be a cool baby mobile. There is nothing to read into that except that we have a good number of friends that have babies or have one on the way.

bottom of pulp ball ornament at outlet

I found a 4′x6′ Zola rug and loved the colors. I purchased it and tried it out in the hotel room.

crate and barrel rug 2

I sent the above photo to The Mister and asked him to measure out a space on our leopard rug.

leopard rug 1

We tried it out and it was a disappointment.

zola on leopard rug

Good thing I have till early April to return it and will be back in the area in March.  It’s a great rug but I don’t have a place for it. If they had a smaller one I would use it in the kitchen.

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It’s exactly one month after Christmas. I find it hard to believe. This past year we used our white tree, opposed to the green tree for Christmas. Here is where we started.

We put a bunch of ornaments on it and it could have used more. My feeling towards Christmas trees is typically “More is better.” I can always add ornaments. You need a good mix of color and reflective. I like clear and/or mirrored ornaments shoved in first to create depth and a reflective surface. Then, I was able to find around seven boxes of Christopher Radko’s reissued Shiny Brite, plus The Mister’s mother found some older glass ornaments. 

Some of the Radko Shiny Brite I found

The box of ornaments from The Mister’s momma

Of course, we had my other Radko ornaments and family ornaments to add. Then, I found some glittered curly sticks, red bows and some clear ball picks. I decided “Why not?” and loaded it on.

Here are some up close photos:

This is probably my favorite photo.

Next year, I will be better about taking better count of what we put on it. I’ll go for a step-by-step run down.

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