Family Chic

I’m particular about the size, shape and color of the vases I use for my arrangements – this $2 Goodwill find ticked all the boxes for me. Very happy with how it looks on our mantel. It’s a low-value piece, but that doesn’t matter to me – I just like it. XO, Camilla

My mother loved to thrift. When I was young, she would often drag me along to flea markets, antique malls, estate sales, junk shops – my reward for joining her would be a piece of stick candy (it was the ’70s – every antique mall sold stick candy) or she would buy me something that caught my eye. She was kind – I remember being in 5th grade and I wanted an enamelware...

January – so obviously less exciting than December. I miss the lights and the evergreens I happily dotted all around the house and the Christmas carols playing on repeat. So here I am doing what I do each year at this time – filling the house with spring flowers and lighting candles (especially uplifting to have candlelight in the morning, I find). Just pick up a few...

When you remove the greenery from your store-bought wreath, you will see a perfectly good and reusable metal frame. Some of these frames have prongs that are folded down over the evergreen clippings while others are simple metal circles that the clippings are wired on to. Either way – it is super easy to strip these frames and use them to create your own design the following ...

I have a fondness for the simple, affordable wreaths that are sold at grocery stores this time of year, but I don’t love the bows that come with them — I always switch them out. Here is a way to repurpose those discarded bows – which are stiff and sturdy – perfect for this project…

With just a few simple folds and one staple, these little pockets can hold greene...