Christmas Decorating tips with Duchess & Mimi. November 2025

I'm Duchess. I'm Mimi. And we're Duchess and Mimi. We are ready for the holidays. Oh yes we are. And we're going to give you three good tips because I know you're all starting to decorate and it's never too early. Get it up and get going and enjoy it. Enjoy it for the season. So Malie, what do you have? Well, I wanted to talk about I love to do mantles and this is a great garland for mantles. It's a real touch pine. It's just it hangs very well. It also is not lit. So it could go down a dining room table very easily over a bookshelf somewhere where you don't have light. It's great for that. We have picks that help make it fuller. We also have battery operated garlands like this and the real touch. And you can you can add lights to this also. You can overlay it over your traditional greenery garland that you've got on your mantle. And it gives it another texture and gives it a little thickness. That's right. Because sometimes the garlands are a little chintzy. And if you want a really designer look, adding layers makes your mantle better. That's how you get a Duchess and Mimi mantle is layer, layer, layer. There's never too many textures in there. That's right. And the other thing that's great for a mantle is ribbon. Now, this year, one of my trees. Well, my big tree. I changed the ribbon out on. I have beautiful traditional blown glass Santas and I had red and black and white ribbon. Well, all we did on my tree this year was change it. I have a dark blue room that it's in. So we brought in this plaid in the velvet. We gave it that almost a Ralph Lauren feel. That's what I wanted to change it to. So just changing the ribbon on my tree gave it an entirely different look, don't you think? Oh, yes. And we have great ribbon. We have different sizes, different textures. And that's the that's the ticket to beautiful bows, different sizes and different textures. Look on this tree here. Look at this tree. This has four different bow ribbons on it and they're all different sizes. So that makes it more interesting, more presence and changes the look of your your tree. Right. So that's that is the huge, huge tip. I said just maybe changing the bow on your your wreath on your front door or your mantle. So ribbon, a little touch of ribbon everywhere. And don't buy too little of ribbon. Always buy extra because you're going to need. That's right. You're going to need a little extra. Come here next year and it's not going to be here. It's going to be so you're going to not have enough ribbon. Always buy an extra roll of everything. But another tip, if you want this look, this fullness and the way this is, you need wired ribbon. Don't go to big box stores. Yes. And buy that real thin wired ribbon that's nice to wrap your packages with. This stiff, beautiful ribbon. What you may want to make a beautiful bow out of. And it lasts. I've had my other ribbon for probably seven years and it has held up. I've taken care of it still looks brand new. I'm going to keep it. But when you buy quality ribbon, it's going to hold up every year. Now, our third tip is lighting. And we all know in the evenings when you turn on your Christmas tree, that's the special time. So you can't get enough lights. You really can't. Especially when you add a lot of elements to your tree. You know, this has a lot of elements. If we wouldn't have added extra lights to it, it would have been dull. Right. You have a pre-lit tree. It has a great number of lights on it. But once you get all those layers in there, you're going to hide that. So we have different different types of lighting. We've got cluster lights that we like to put back in the tree. We have Santa whiskers that hang on the outside of the tree. This really, really adds. Everyone needs one of these on on each of their trees because it gives that light to the outside. Up on the top of your tree. That's another thing. Because you put a bunch of pine or whatever you you have for your topper, your ribbon, and it's dark. And then the rest of your tree is lit. So some lighting on the top of your tree always. And we have several different variations on that. We can kind of help you customize it to your tree. Yes, we sure can. And then what's your favorite lighting? Well, I love candlesticks. So that means candles. Right. And I love our flame illusions as well. And they just glow like candle, you know, like a flame. Yes. Like a flame. And I love those as well. So I have them all over my house. Yeah. So we've got, you know, the the candles that that look like they're a taper or a pillar. And then we have our flame illusions that you can set inside of a glass piece. And then it gives you that flicker and flame like a like a fireplace. So y'all come in. We've got the greatest things this year. We are so excited. We've got seven different sections, colors. It is. It's so fun in the store. All of our girls have have helped and get everything set up. And we've had a great time. So you've got to come experience our holiday madness. It'll give you great ideas and inspire you to go home and do your tree. Well, and we have outdone ourself this year, Roberta. So it's been a fun season. So y'all come and see us. Downtown Wichita Falls. I'm Duchess. I'm Mimi. And we're Duchess and Mimi. Made with heart and crown with love.