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Clean your windows! Let the sunshine in. Remove heavy curtains and hang something thin and fluttery.
Set out bowls of peaches and tangerines or baskets of shiny yellow lemons. Daisies in mason jars? Yes, please!
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Tuck a bouquet of dried flowers among the logs in your fireplace.
Go outside and play! Softball...croquet...catch fireflies!
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Go swimming at the lake or beach.
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Old flower creamers make nice vases for tiny bouquets. Find them at yard sale and flea markets.
Flag down the ice cream man! Buy something from his old-fashioned ice cream truck and reminisce about your childhood summers.
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Seashells and bird houses make wonderful summer decor!
Lighten colors in your rooms. Remove heavy quilts and spreads-use old fashioned white cotton bedspreads or light duvets. Replace couch pillows with lighter colors, take up rugs and replace them with sisal rugs or just let the floor be bare. Summerize!
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Eat a popsicle!
It doesn't take much to bring whimsy and delight to your Jewel Box® Home! Now go outside and play.
~Amber
I LOVE that curtain used on the porch.... sad to say, I don't have a porch on my current house.
ReplyDeleteBut thanks for the idea... I hope I can use in the future.
Beautiful summery images! I do take down curtains for the summer, replacing them with sheers or with nothing at all -- depending on the room and the tolerance of neighbors!
ReplyDeleteMy mother had pure white toweling slipcovers made for her upholstered furniture and in June, down would come the darker draperies, up would go crisp white, and the sofas and chairs would get their summer duds on; I can still remember how our little bare legs looked, pockmarked from the terrycloth fabric, after we sat on the sofas in our shorts!
This was in the 1960s ... she might have been ahead of her time!
Now I think I'll go pull down some more curtains, neighbors notwithstanding! :-)
Cass