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Halfway to Halloween: What Is It and Idea's to Celebrate This Fun Holiday!What is Halfway to Halloween?It's the 6 month or halfway point in the year before Halloween. It's kind of like "Christmas in July" for Christmas. When is Halfway to Halloween?Halfway to Halloween is usually April 30th or May 1st.Some Fun Ideas on How to Celebrate Halfway to Halloween:1. DecoratePut out a few Halloween decorations. Your neighbors might think you've lost your marbles, but remind them it's halfway t …

Department 56 Harry Potter Village This magical story started on Number 4, Privett Drive. At the Dursley residence in the cupboard under the stairs. Since the first book debut in 1997 and the first movie premiering in 2001, the story of The Boy Who Lived has become a beloved and classic tale to all ages! Young Harry Potter finds out he’s a wizard on his 11th birthday, getting his acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! He is then thrown into the adventurous (a …

Christmas Decoration Ideas For 2019Tips & tricks to make this Christmas your most decorative yet!  Idea #1: Mantle Decor-Swagging a garland across your mantle adds length and gives it some dimension for the holidays! Add light by twisting and securing a string of lights in the garland! Give your mantle top life by making your own little village on top!Click HERE to shop Garlands!Click HERE to shop Figures!Click HERE to shop Tree Garland!Click HERE to shop Lights!Idea #2: Buckets-Us …

Say bye-bye to Christmas tree skirts that get bunched up or wrinkled and having to constantly straighten them out! Bye-bye to buying adorable skirts with lovely designs that you end up not even seeing! Time to cover up that tree stand that’s just NOT cute! Hop on the Christmas Tree Collar train!So what exactly is a Christmas Tree Collar?A Christmas Tree Collar is a stand up tree skirt made of stiffened fabric or metal that goes completely around the base of your Christmas tree to hide all the ug …

Stuck on how to decorate with Halloween decorations?? We’ve got you covered!INDOOR Decorating Ideas:Entryway, Shelving, Table Set Ups:Use figures to spice up your entryway table! You can even roll out a strip of burlap down the length of your dining table and bunch together a few pumpkins! Use them as risers such as cake stands, books, or crates for larger areas to break up your figures!Books are a great way to add customizable height or color to your mantle, a shelf, or any table! Stack …

Top 9 2019 Christmas Decorating TrendsWanna know what's hot for this Holiday season?? Check out our 9 Trends we know are going to be show stoppers for Christmas Decorating this year!Christmas Tree Decorating Trend #1: GingerbreadGingerbread houses are a fun family tradition to have, so it only makes sense for Gingerbread decorations to be totally trendy! Each one is unique from the next- in the way it’s decorated, its size, and shape! Whether you’re a pro baker or a cookie novice in the kitc …

Christmas Tree Ideas for 2019We have been working hard to curate the most trendy and beautiful Christmas Tree ideas with the most unique touches to inspire you and for you to be able to decorate like a designer! We have  put together 10 Christmas tree ideas for 2019. These ideas hit every corner of decorating- from traditional, to vintage, fun and playful, to elegant and natural, and everything in between! Every Christmas tree idea has a specific color palette and we're sure you'll find som …

As soon as the 2017 Christmas season was over, we went right to work with a mission of getting the most beautiful, trendy, unique tree themes we could find for 2018 Christmas! & what we have come up with is sure to blow you away! We have a total of 10 trees ranging from traditional, to vintage, to modern, to elegant, to fun! Each one has a specific color palette to match any personality!Arctic Woodland Step into the magic of an outdoor winter wonderland with this Arctic Woodland Chri …

Are you ready to get your scare on?! Perhaps you’re not the scary type, either way we’ve got all your Halloween needs! If you love decorating the outside of your home, we have a few metal silhouettes that are perfect to put in your yard! We have a spooky witch standing over her bubbling cauldron, or a pair of limping zombies coming your way! Picture them underneath the cover a large tree with fog slowly rolliin……it’s giving me chills just thinking about it! If you decorate outside but …

Tired of displaying your Department 56 village pieces on a table or mantel? Well check out a few of our display ideas we used in our store, The Jolly Christmas Shop.National Lampoons Christmas Vacation Village DisplayTo start we found an old wooden ladder at a garage sale. This ladder actually only cost us $10! Next we went to the hardware store and purchased shelf boards around 3/4" thick. Before we purchased these boards, we measured the width of the rungs of the ladder and made sure we purcha …