Adding oomph

All it took was 50 cents worth of red bows.

They added enough pizzazz to my bowl of blue ornaments to make the whole living room look much more like Christmas.

In my last post, I talked about the lack of oomph in my attempt at Christmas cheer. A friend said the bowl full of blue ornaments looked too minimalist, too much like what a fastidious designer might do. He was right.

My friend Walter quickly wrote a comment to my post: "Add a small red bow to one side and it will be stunning."

Okay, done.

And believing that nothing exceeds like excess, I added four little red bows.

Despite what the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said, sometimes less is not more.