Category: Decorating

Christmas Decorating

DIY Christmas Stockings: Simple Steps for a Personalized Touch

There is something particularly special about hanging handmade Christmas stockings each December. Unlike decorations chosen to match a temporary color scheme, stockings often become part of a family’s Christmas story—brought out year after year, filled on Christmas Eve and eventually associated with particular people and memories. They don’t have to be complicated, either. The colorful …

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The Symbolism of Christmas Flowers in Holiday Traditions

There is something especially meaningful about flowers at Christmas. Against the bare branches and muted landscapes of winter, brilliant red poinsettias, snowy white hellebores, elegant amaryllis blooms, and fragrant evergreen foliage bring color and life indoors at exactly the time of year when nature seems quietest. Yet many of the plants we associate with Christmas …

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Creating the Perfect Christmas Village

A tiny church glowing against freshly fallen snow. Children skating on a frozen pond. A bakery with warm light spilling through its windows. Carolers gathered beneath a lamppost while miniature evergreens line a winding village street. Few Christmas decorations create an entire world quite like a Christmas village. Whether your collection consists of three little …

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