Pattern mixing: it’s a simple thing to do, especially for the holidays! You either have one pillow with a fantastic pattern or you don’t. If you do, keep that one and work from it. If you don’t, take the pillows you have and chuck them. You might find you’ll be able to go back and use those to augment what you have but don’t work from them initially. That’s not the way to go.

Here’s what you do: find a new pillow that is fantastic, gorgeous, absolutely perfectly what you want (if you don’t know what you want, send me some pictures and I’ll tell you which one you want!). It has to be a real eye catcher. Don’t worry about whether or not it matches your current room decor. What you do have to worry about is whether or not it has pizzazz!

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