Decorating

Has anyone started decorating for Christmas already?! I just joined a couple of Facebook pages for decorating your home and holy cow, everyone on there is already putting their trees and decor up! I gotta do Thanksgiving first. But come 8am Friday morning after Turkey Day, it's on! People have some beautiful arrangements and decor/displays and I'm thinking where do they find all this stuff? I'll get an idea for a display but then I can find like one piece in my idea, LOL. I guess I just don't have the ability (or close access) to be out shopping/looking for stuff all the time.

A lot of the members post pictures/questions on what they should do with a certain area/room. Of course they will get hundreds of replies. Before I read them I will think what answer I would give and often times it ends up being what is the most liked, too, haha. I guess I must have some skills, though often when it comes to some of my own areas to decorate, I can't figure it out either. 

Part of my problem is dh butting his nose in. I'll have an idea and he has to question everything, no matter what. My best bet is to not even ask him anything or say "what do you think of this idea?", because it wouldn't matter what I said - he'd disagree. I can't even tell him where I want a picture hung - he'll say it has to adjust 1/2 an inch, LOL. We have this little wood shelf, with pegs and a heart in the middle - it was something I got for DD's room (over 20 years ago!) when I re decorated it from baby/crib to "big girl" room. When she moved out/we moved she didn't want it. I didn't want it either, but dh took it out of the goodwill box and it moved to our new home. When I was decorating there I told him, no I don't want it put up anywhere. It doesn't go with my rustic/western/farmhouse decor style. Then we started decorating in this new house and I told him same thing. Well, he came across the damn thing again the other day and says don't you want to put it somewhere? No....not really. Finally, I just said put it up in the laundry room, over the dog shower. Somewhere to set the dog shampoo and hang their drying towels. We used old ratty towels to dry them, which of course look like crap hanging there, LOL. I told him when we get his new shop blinds in and he can take down those dark brown towels hanging over the windows in the shop and we can use for drying towels to hang there.  Of course now it needs some things in those little boxes (dd had knicknacks) and I have no idea what to put there.

I should have just took that shelf to goodwill one one of my trips into the city. Just forgot about it :( 

The wall above our tv (fireplace below) NEEDS something there. Of course, the thing that would look the best there is a deer head mounted, which dh agrees. But, he's not going to hunt and he won't just buy one off someone who wants to get rid of one, so the wall sits empty. So, I guess I just need to figure out something to go there. It's such a huge focal point of the inside of the downstairs. It has to be something good  which is going to cost $$. I'm thinking maybe some metal art. I just saw a post of a guy who does some and it's awesome, but it's $450 plus shipping. There's this artist lady I follow on instagram, who does these amazing buffalo oil paintings that are a bit abstract, but I'm sure her stuff is in the thousands of dollars, so that's not happening.

The loveseat I ordered is supposed to be here sometime before Christmas. The coffee table is coming later this week. I will probably get a similar side table for the chair and a floor lamp to go next/behind the chair. Oh, and I guess some pillow covers and a small throw blanket to drape on the chair. The loveseat comes with 2 throw pillows, but I am wanting some cowhide pillows on it. I can probably just buy the cover to go over the pillows it comes with, I hope. There is also this super cute little "baby firepit" I'd like to get for the coffee table. You can view them here: Baby fire pit. It does look like their prices went up since I originally saw them and saved the link.