Sometimes I watch just to be disgusted by the excess. And yet it's got a certain appeal. Kinda like the train wreck that you can't help but look at .

I've been watching this show again on DABL, but it is now called "Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb." I also sometimes watch it on YouTube. They are still doing feature walls with bad wallpaper, and often the clients/sellers will refuse to use the paper that Amanda picks out (she has particularly bad taste) and pick a better wallpaper themselves or just paint. I do not like Amanda at all because she can be overbearing and arrogant, but I do like the sellers and buyers. The buyers still often pick none of the three options they are given - much like "Escape to the Country" (which has much better realtors), but there is a prize (I think) for the seller that the buyer likes best, even if they do not buy. Amanda Lamb is 5'-11½" (1.81 meters) tall and often towers over others in the show, especially if she wears heels, but she often wears flats. A show I like better is The Unsellables, with Sofie Allsopp, who is much better put together than Amanda Lamb. I believe it started in Toronto and then moved to England. Sofie is 5'-8", and so she is rather tall also, and she almost always wears extremely high heel - which I like. I always notice her shoes in the shoes, and they are always very nice. Sofie gets a lot of criticism on YouTube, but I mostly disagree with it.

About 8 years ago my mom bought me a tabletop book, 'Christmas with the First Ladies'. I bring it out every year and flip through it; I'm amazed at the amount of work the volunteers do to bring Christmas alive at the White House. I recently learned you can buy White House ornaments back to the first ones of 1984. And there's so many other ornaments, as well.

Loved the birch lined hallway with twinkling lights and snowballs. And although rather incongruous it was interesting to see Independence Hall annexed onto the White House. This is a link to an NPR article with more photos. https://www.npr.org/2022/11/28/1139417380/white-house-christmas-holiday-decor-theme