Re: CIJ PURCHASES

Zita · ‎05-24-2011

@Ane1Care wrote:
@sweetee2

They're adding things to this as we get closer. Several items are new from just this morning.

http://www.qvc.com/ChristmasInJulyPreview.content.html?refine=0&pageSize=96

Thanks! for posting this link. so many gorgeous new things, but alas, I am downsizing further to an apartment so must be very choosy. I have so many great pieces from past shows, but i will allow myself ONE new item!

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

I gotta admit, I keep looking at the TSV candle holders.

I so don't 'need' them, but I did put together a really simple vignette last year with some super elegant stackable gift boxes done with gold foil 'wrap' and I tied them up with wide gold ribbons. They sit as a grouping on the high flat top of my curio cabinet (it is a beveled solid oak with lots of Victorian trim and gorgeous claw feet). Anyway, a candle on one of these gold pedestals tucked in among the boxes would be a stunning way to complete the look.

I have the square ones in gold, but I keep telling myself this round versions is so much more elegant than the square ones.

I guess my next questions would be, what does this gold look like.

VPH has a host of shades of gold in her lines, and the MG has been no different. Some of it is rather brassy and some is lighter. Almost none of it matches and I learned from listening here (as well as experience buying things I thought would match because it said 'gold') that her various golds don't always look good together.

I also find it odd there was no champagne. That color in a lot of her items was really a hit the last couple of years.

The longer I type this, the more I think, and I'm thinking that I have two sets of those champagne acrylic finials that I dearly love, and could use one or two of those up on top of that curio just as easily. Might actually make a bigger impact.

Well, how was that for talking myself out of a purchase......well......maybe......for now anyway.

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

@Mominohio wrote:
I gotta admit, I keep looking at the TSV candle holders.

I so don't 'need' them, but I did put together a really simple vignette last year with some super elegant stackable gift boxes done with gold foil 'wrap' and I tied them up with wide gold ribbons. They sit as a grouping on the high flat top of my curio cabinet (it is a beveled solid oak with lots of Victorian trim and gorgeous claw feet). Anyway, a candle on one of these gold pedestals tucked in among the boxes would be a stunning way to complete the look.

I have the square ones in gold, but I keep telling myself this round versions is so much more elegant than the square ones.

I guess my next questions would be, what does this gold look like.

VPH has a host of shades of gold in her lines, and the MG has been no different. Some of it is rather brassy and some is lighter. Almost none of it matches and I learned from listening here (as well as experience buying things I thought would match because it said 'gold') that her various golds don't always look good together.

I also find it odd there was no champagne. That color in a lot of her items was really a hit the last couple of years.

The longer I type this, the more I think, and I'm thinking that I have two sets of those champagne acrylic finials that I dearly love, and could use one or two of those up on top of that curio just as easily. Might actually make a bigger impact.

Well, how was that for talking myself out of a purchase......well......maybe......for now anyway.

@Mominohio I am going to be doing a lot of talking myself out of buying things. The last two years have been a whirwind of buying Christmas decor, and the insanity must stop, lol.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@mousiegirl wrote:
@Mominohio wrote:
I gotta admit, I keep looking at the TSV candle holders.

I so don't 'need' them, but I did put together a really simple vignette last year with some super elegant stackable gift boxes done with gold foil 'wrap' and I tied them up with wide gold ribbons. They sit as a grouping on the high flat top of my curio cabinet (it is a beveled solid oak with lots of Victorian trim and gorgeous claw feet). Anyway, a candle on one of these gold pedestals tucked in among the boxes would be a stunning way to complete the look.

I have the square ones in gold, but I keep telling myself this round versions is so much more elegant than the square ones.

I guess my next questions would be, what does this gold look like.

VPH has a host of shades of gold in her lines, and the MG has been no different. Some of it is rather brassy and some is lighter. Almost none of it matches and I learned from listening here (as well as experience buying things I thought would match because it said 'gold') that her various golds don't always look good together.

I also find it odd there was no champagne. That color in a lot of her items was really a hit the last couple of years.

The longer I type this, the more I think, and I'm thinking that I have two sets of those champagne acrylic finials that I dearly love, and could use one or two of those up on top of that curio just as easily. Might actually make a bigger impact.

Well, how was that for talking myself out of a purchase......well......maybe......for now anyway.

@Mominohio I am going to be doing a lot of talking myself out of buying things. The last two years have been a whirwind of buying Christmas decor, and the insanity must stop, lol.

I hear ya! I have gone way overboard the last two or three years, from Q, but more so from Hobby Lobby.

I had more Christmas decor than I needed before I started my binge, but most of it was from decades of collecting, much of it very expensive, and added to in piecemeal fashion over the years. Nothing really 'matched' or coordinated, much was very country or santa/snowman centered, and just wasn't the more sophistocated and coordinated look I was seeing others do, and wanting now for myself.

So I jumped in with both feet (and borrowed a couple more pair!!LOL) and really went to town, buying complete vignettes of items all to achieve the new look.

Now I'm sitting on the old stuff (too sentimental to give away) and the new stuff I love using now (but fear I may tire of, therefore keep the old stuff to revisit some Christmas future) and ask myself why the heck would I be thinking about one single more piece.

But hey, we only live once. So let's watch and enjoy and if we buy, well....I'll forgive your transgressions if you forgive mine!

@mousiegirl

ILUVChristmas · ‎12-01-2010

Purchased H208719 set of 4 8" swirl trees and H208791 finials in multi Can not wait ti get these!

missxmas · ‎09-06-2010

I ordered the set of 2 Luminara candles in silver with some glitter. I also found on line the 48 inch nutcracker that has some lights on it and am hoping to place outside on my front steps or maybe on a balcony outside of my living room. I am tempted to order the 11 inch Luminara lanterns in Alberti's show as gifts for my team at work! Need to sleep in it!

lucymo · ‎12-13-2010

I have been good, only ordered the set of Hemlock candle rings and they shipped yesterday. I am not tempted by anything so far.

I thought I would like the TSV pedestals but when I saw them presented I am not that impressed. I have the square ones from a couple of years ago and am convinced that I have enough pedestals. I have so many finials, pedestals and trees that it's embarrassing. I'll wait for the CIJ weekend and maybe there will be something that I can't live without.

SHOPR · ‎04-17-2013

I got the hemlock candle rings, and the multi choice in the sequined berry picks.

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

@lucymo wrote:
I have been good, only ordered the set of Hemlock candle rings and they shipped yesterday. I am not tempted by anything so far.

I thought I would like the TSV pedestals but when I saw them presented I am not that impressed. I have the square ones from a couple of years ago and am convinced that I have enough pedestals. I have so many finials, pedestals and trees that it's embarrassing. I'll wait for the CIJ weekend and maybe there will be something that I can't live without.

@lucymo I caved and bought one red and one green.

lucymo · ‎12-13-2010

@mousiegirl wrote:
@lucymo wrote:
I have been good, only ordered the set of Hemlock candle rings and they shipped yesterday. I am not tempted by anything so far.

I thought I would like the TSV pedestals but when I saw them presented I am not that impressed. I have the square ones from a couple of years ago and am convinced that I have enough pedestals. I have so many finials, pedestals and trees that it's embarrassing. I'll wait for the CIJ weekend and maybe there will be something that I can't live without.

@lucymo I caved and bought one red and one green.

@mousiegirl You little stinker, does this mean the daylilies will have to wait. LOL