Merry Christmas from The Living Room AND starting our year-end sale

The rainy, rainy day has settled into a clean-washed evening. The Christmas lights in the night air seem especially clear after such a splashy day. It's a lovely, quiet time to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a wonderfully happy and peaceful New Year in the love of our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.

We have some exciting news for 2011, but more about that later.

Meanwhile, the Living Room will be open on Christmas Eve from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with an early start to our year end 10%-Off-Everything-Sale through the end of 2010.

If you are still looking for gifts or stocking stuffers, you are sure to find a treasure at The Living Room, at 10% off the last marked price.

Herbal sachets...


Outrageously good shortbread in wonderfully creative combinations of flavors for the sweet or the savory palette...


Tea-lovers tea and accessories...


And something a little too large to stuff in a stocking, a vintage, stainless steel Sunbeam mixer:

A Precious Moments collection looking for new shelves to look cute on:



A strangely lovely...item...a silver-plated floral motif that seems to have been a cigarette caddy with individual ashtrays made like petals. What do you think?


This illuminated globe is a snap-shot of the earth from the early 1980's. Replogle manufactured it after Vietnam become a single nation (1976), after Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe (1979/80), but before Upper Volta became Burkina Faso. (Dating globes is a fascinating rabbit trail, helped by charts such as the one I found at http://www.longwood.edu/cleanva/datingglobes.htm.)


If you are getting ready to toast the New Year, take a look at some lovely cups and goblets that were consigned this week: from India brass to dainty crystal to gleaming pewter to hearty copper mugs for Moscow Mules:




And is this the last "ugly Christmas sweater" available in Seattle?

I think it is lovely!

Again, Merry Christmas!