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My husband was mystified about the whole "printable tags" idea. He was having trouble visualizing them going from their virtual state to their real state, so I printed some out so he could see them go from monitor screen to hanging on the screen door. He even helped cut them out!
I like to print them and send them to friends as little "perk up" mail and as bookmarks. My house is quite bare, except for shelves of books. My house echoes. I have 2 computer chairs, one dragged home from behind an office. Only 2 chairs in the whole place. No couch, not much of anything in the way of furniture, except a huge 8-foot farm trestle table that we scrub with sand Colonial-style to really get clean, and some benches made from split tree trunks. We have some little tables made from cedar fences, too. And bedside fruit crates.
But books are stacked up, placed on shelves, on the small tables; books are here and there, but not crazily so. And tags are sticking out of some of the books. But just a few. Go to a few estate sales where someone who hoarded things lived, and you'll be quite cured of the desire to go overboard on anything.
But I have been using tags to decorate for Valentine's Day, too. I like seasonal decor - if it's kept light and simple. I really don't like putting away a lot of heavy, bulky stuff, or gathering up 10,000 knickknacks after a holiday is over. I like tags, because they are so easy. And it's kind of like that popular "almost from scratch" cooking - I like the EMBELLISHING part and the choosing of ribbons, not creating each and every tag from scratch. I just print them out and get to the fun part.
