Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Holiday House 2010

This past weekend was the annual Holiday House in Little Rock.  The Junior League puts it on every year and it is a fabulous Christmas shopping extravaganza.  My mom, sister and I planned to go, but my niece had a school program and then they had to go out of town, so mom and I went Saturday and had such a great time.  This place was FULL of holiday decorating inspiration and gift giving ideas. 

Mom and I parked and walked past the Capital Hotel.


I love the Capital Hotel.  There is something so elegant about it.

Then we entered the convention center to find this waiting for us:


Okay, this picture is actually from the website because I forgot to take my own.  OOPS!

Anyway, Holiday House was full of great decorating ideas that I would love to share with you, but I saw lots of these:



Okay, so the ones I saw were much cuter, but I couldn't take a picture of them for obvious reasons. 

There was one booth that I loved that did allow me to take pictures.  Okay, so in all honesty, I didn't ask, BUT I didn't see a sign so I snapped a few really quickly before I got busted and she showed me her sign.


Oh my gosh!  A sock monkey Christmas tree!  GRACIOUS!  LOVE!  LOVE!  LOVE!  I looked up her booth # and it was Myrna's Joy.  I think it's the Funky Monkey in Van Buren, AR, but I have no verification of that.  Look what else she had in her booth:



                                       

Sock Monkey EVERYTHING!  Even a Monkey in the Box!  Soo cute!  She also had some really cute sock monkey paintings.  I didn't get a picture of those. 

If I had lots of $$ sitting around waiting to be spent, I would've bought me a bunch of sock monkeys for a Christmas tree in the playroom.  Soooo cute!  Maybe I can do that by the time I have grandchildren. 

There was one other booth that I'll share with you later in the week.  Hope y'all have a great day!



Signature

9 comments:

  1. OMG, freaking out over the sock monkey tree! That's awesome! That place would have been heaven for me. They sell that monkey in the box at Target and I always play with it when I'm there : )

    ReplyDelete
  2. I have always loved sock monkeys. I've seen patterns for making, but don't know if I could tackle that one! Thanks for sharing, the tree is sooo cute.

    ReplyDelete
  3. I just ADORE this time of year! And the Holiday House sounds like FABULOUS fun! The sock monkey tree is to die for! I am so giddy that the Holiday season is upon us! Um, except the food part - that is going to be my undoing! Oh well!

    ReplyDelete
  4. I haven't been to a Holiday House kind of event in a long time. . . you've got me thinking I need to look in the paper and see when there might be such an event around here!

    Isn't it funny that there would be all those No Photo signs? I guess some people would just come and take lots of pictures of items and then try to make their own, without ever buying anything. But if I had a booth in a place like this, I think I'd be proud of people wanted to photograph my stuff!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Love those sock monkeys! :) They have some similar items in the Joseph Beth bookstore!

    ReplyDelete
  6. It sounds fun! My mother, sister, and I used to go to something called "Christmas Made in the South" which sounds a lot like this. It was always so fun. We haven't been in years.

    Those sock monkeys make me giggle.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Wow, LOVe those sock monkeys too...ah childhood memories:-)

    ReplyDelete
  8. what a fun day! LOL You crack me up! I love the sock monkey tree! How adorable!!! Thanks for sharing!

    ReplyDelete