Cyber Monday: Online Holiday Decorating Specials

Irwin Weiner ASID - It's the season to shop online, and Nov. 28 is designated as Cyber Monday (the virtual shopping equivalent of today's brick-and-mortar store Black Friday). We scoured the Web, and here are some of our favorite holiday specials. Home goods shoppers, rev up your engines and get out your credit cards!

Sale Price: CB2 Watu Kwa Amani Peace Dove 20" Pillow

Sale Price + Free Shipping: West Elm Egg Press Holiday Dessert Plates

Sale Price: CB2 Elf Candleholders

Free Shipping: Land of Nod You-Name-It Personalized Hanukkah Placemat

Sale Price + Free Shipping: Pottery Barn Velvet Monogrammed Stockings

Sale Price: CB2 Recycled Flowerball Ornaments

Sale Price + Free Shipping: West Elm 12 Days of Christmas Canape Plates

Sale Price: CB2 Red Mars Party Tub

Free Shipping: Land of Nod Personalized You-Name-It Ornaments

Sale Price: Crate & Barrel Red Ceramic Soap Dish with 4 Snowflake SoapsSale Price + Free Shipping: West Elm Hanukkah Canape Plates

Sale Price: CB2 Glass Toothpick Ball Ornaments 

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Holiday Shopping Begins for Home Goods

Irwin Weiner ASID - It's time to start spending money on presents. Traditionally, we've squirreled away gifts for family and loved ones, but these economic times have created some new trends. I'm seeing a lot of paring down on gift giving ... more caps on spending amounts, one gift only, and so on. And there's the big trend of spending money - splurging - on gifts that you buy for yourself. 

Skitsch Home Kit Large Bookshelf

Design2Share wants to inspire you with some of our home goods favorites this year, and we're kicking off our Wish List series with home goods from Skitsch. (Click on the photos for more product information.)

Skitsch Fire Kit Table Lamp

Skitsch Cinderella Broke a Leg Bed

MORE FAVORITES: Click here for more of our favorites from this design-worthy purveyor. 

Skitsch Villa Julia kids cardboard playhouse 

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Grandin Road's Delightful Obsession with Halloween Decor

Irwin Weiner ASID - I'm told that Halloween is now second only to Christmas as the holiday that homeowners use to redecorate their homes in a holiday theme. And it's fairly evident when you go down the streets of most any town. Front yards are turned into graveyards, wispy ghosts hang from trees, and everything's coming up pumpkins and mums. 

I've made myself perfectly clear about avoiding going overboard with decorating for any holiday. I'm not a big fan of turning your home into a holiday theme park, for heaven's sake - and think of the expense! - but I'm not about to bah-humbug anyone's Halloween and begrudge you the fun of decorating. So, have your splurge, and perhaps go to an online store like Grandin Road, where their Halloween Haven has an amazingly large collection of Halloween decor, collectibles, costumes and accessories, and more. This video will preview some of their many imaginative holiday pieces, like spider web chair wrap (top photo), yard fog machines (second photo, above), and the Martha Stewart Glass Eyeball serving tray (below).

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Avoid Halloween Decoration Overkill

Irwin Weiner ASID - Tis the season to be kitschy ... and I can say that about any holiday that demands redecorating your home to fit the season. For Halloween and any other season, I abhor the compulsion some homeowners have to create a holiday vignette everywhere you look. Jack-o-lanterns at the front door, witch cutouts on the windows, Halloween lights strung up on the eaves, ghost tea towels in the guest bath - you get the idea. 

Totally overboard.

Here and there, it's alright to add a holiday-themed accent, like the Woman's Day Felted Mummy Doll craft (top photo) added to the throw pillows on your sofa, a few Halloween silhouettes clustered together on a wall (below, top photo), or a Candy Corn inspired centerpiece - simple to make, yet imaginative - on your dining room table (bottom photo). These ideas prove

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