image courtesy of Virginia via  Mother Baby Earth

image courtesy of Camille via Mother Baby Earth

image courtesy of Apartment Therapy

image courtesy of Red Thread DIY

Tree branches. They gift a room with lightness, back-to-the roots simplicity, and endless possibility. The picture below has had me mezmerized for months and makes me happy every time I look at it. I keep turning it around in my head, loving the bright colors and floating branches.

image of Making Arrangements

Starting to dream of Christmas, of hot wine at the marketplace, of baking cookies with the boys, of decorating the apartment, and seeing bright, smiling eyes as the holidays take hold of the kid inside us.