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@Citrine1

My favorite is The Swing, but I love most of them!

[stevieb]

I don't use the traditional 'end tables' but yes, the tables in my rooms have various decorative objects on them.

[ScrapHappy]

 I have 3 fireplaces in my house (family room, basement & master bedroom).  All functioning and gas.  I don't put anything inside them.  I only put lamps on end tables.  We moved 2 years ago into my dream home and I always thought I'd have it decorated end to end.  But I'm finding I don't like all the clutter.

[Fressa]

We use our fireplaces often but in the warm months I either put flameless candles inside it on a variety of candle pedestals or a large basket with jumbo pinecones. In the living room I have a large gold log holder and I put gold pine cones in it for that fireplace. I have raised hearths so my fireplace inserts are not super large.  

[Katcat1]

@crazered    I have seen it with 2 different size candles.  Large tall and some a little shorter in off white.  You could also use some thin branches and add a few items to it of your liking.  

[BirkiLady]

@Mominohio @Citrine1  Makes that three of us with "A Child's Garden of Verses" in our homes! Although mine is on a library table in the family room with my grandmother's round, navy leather container which holds a collapsible sterling silver drinking cup. (She had the leather container/top and cup as a child in Durante, Texas before moving to Springfield, MO then Omaha.) Alongside those pieces are my grandfather's set of shaving items with ivory handles in a black leather case. He grew up in Augusta, Maine; worked in finance for Ford Motor Co. in Detroit before moving to Omaha and working in finance in the First National Bank Bldg. That shaving set was used throughout most of his life.

Mom read "A Child's Garden of Verses" to my sister and me, then we read the poems and memorized our favorites. The book (new copies) became one of many poetry books read to our son and my grandson! (Shel Silverstein was another favorite with our son.)

[Mominohio]

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@BirkiLady wrote:

@Mominohio @Citrine1  Makes that three of us with "A Child's Garden of Verses" in our homes! Although mine is on a library table in the family room with my grandmother's round, navy leather container which holds a collapsible sterling silver drinking cup. (She had the leather container/top and cup as a child in Durante, Texas before moving to Springfield, MO then Omaha.) Alongside those pieces are my grandfather's set of shaving items with ivory handles in a black leather case. He grew up in Augusta, Maine; worked in finance for Ford Motor Co. in Detroit before moving to Omaha and working in finance in the First National Bank Bldg. That shaving set was used throughout most of his life.

Mom read "A Child's Garden of Verses" to my sister and me, then we read the poems and memorized our favorites. The book (new copies) became one of many poetry books read to our son and my grandson! (Shel Silverstein was another favorite with our son.)

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@BirkiLady

I love that you treasure your family heirlooms too! Things like that used to be put away in a box somewhere, but I decided they needed to be used/out and appreciated. It has helped so my son knows the history of the things in our home, should he have an interest in keeping any of it when we are gone. It won't be a mystery which things were from the family's past. 

I love Where the Sidewalk Ends too! I read that book to my son many times, and honestly I still get it out once in awhile and revisit the poems. 

[mousiegirl]

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@Mominohio wrote:

@Citrine1

My favorite is The Swing, but I love most of them!

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@Mominohio  I have the book also, MIL gave it to DD.  When I was a child, I was obsessed about swinging, my very favorite activity, so much so that after a day of working,  my Mother picked me up from school at 5:30, and she would stop at a park before the long ride home just to let me swing, and every Sunday after Sunday school take me to another park, loved going so high my feet seemed to touch the treetops, wonderful memories.   

[SilleeMee]

I have a nice wood-burning fireplace in my living room but I don't use it because it's too much work. It has a nice raised hearth that's fairly long so I decided that when I got my new big screen TV, that's where it was going to be placed. It fits perfectly on the hearth and it blocks the ugly black fireplace behind it. I've even downloaded a video of a crackling fire with sound and all that I play at the push of a button on the TV remote.

[panda1234]

I have a log rack/holder with logs in it. Then I have put very small white lights around the logs randomly. The lights came from the Q and they are on timers.