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Deck The Halls...and Walls
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Enjoy the holidays with these fast, easy
and inexpensive decorating ideas for indoors and out.
By: Christie Bohm Chase, Staff Writer
Once again it is time to haul out the holly
and string up the lights. Whether you choose to
turn your home into a full-blown winter
wonderland or merely opt for a festive table top
decoration and door wreath, there are many
creative ways to bring the holidays into your
home without a lot of time, expense or
headache. The following ideas will help you
enjoy decorating and allow you to take some
time to relax and enjoy some hot chocolate.
Welcoming Wreaths
Wreaths have been used as holiday symbols
for ages and are an easy decoration to put
together. You can purchase live or artificial
wreaths from most craft stores, garden centers
or grocery stores. Whether you opt to leave it
plain, tie ribbons on it, attach ornaments, pine
cones, or small flowers and berries, wreaths
can stand alone as holiday decorations or be
hung in every room - such as over the mantel,
from windows, in doorways, and on exterior
doors. For another alternative, use a wreath as
a table centerpiece and place a holiday candle
in the center.
Ten Minute Decorating
If time is short this month and you only have
a few minutes for decorating, opt for a few of
these quick festive ideas.
• Put a Christmas message on your
answering machine.
• For a festive and inexpensive table
decoration, fill a glass vase with
colorful glass-ball ornaments in
assorted sizes.
• Dust off your favorite holiday stories
and display your book collection on a
table or in a basket.
• String a colorful cord across the mantel
or a window and clip or hang your
favorite holiday cards on it.
• Help Santa find your house by hanging
jingle bells on ribbons from your
doorknobs.
• Bring the smell of Christmas into your
home by tying holiday ribbon around
cinnamon sticks and placing them
around the house or hanging them on
the tree.
• Accent lamps by tying a bow or colorful
cord around the base.
Wonderful Wintertime
When purchasing and making holiday
decorations, save time and money by finding
things that you can leave out and enjoy all
winter long. Snowflakes, holly and scented
candles are a few of many items that last well
beyond the holiday season. A gathering of
stuffed animals tied with bows and dressed in
scarves and hats make another great winter
decoration. A bulletin board covered in velvet
makes a nice showcase for special cards and
can remain hanging through Valentine's Day.
Embellish your dining area by looping tassels
over the backs of dining room chairs and
scattering star confetti on tables and
tablecloths. Decorate your indoor plants by
wrapping unusual paper, fabric, ribbon or raffia
festively around the pots.
Make a simple, fun gingerbread house using
graham crackers, a small box, frosting, candy
canes, gum drops, chocolates and hot glue.
Although the house will not be edible, it will be
very easy to put together. Hot glue the graham
crackers on to the box, then glue crackers or
cookies on creating windows. Hide excess glue
around the edges with frosting. Use frosting or
hot glue to adorn the house with gum drops
and other candy.
Outdoor Decorating
In general, people use lights to outline the
architectural shape of their house, to decorate
shrubs and bushes and to decorate wreaths
and Christmas trees. Floodlights are often used
to draw attention to a special feature like a
large yard decoration or a wreath hanging on
the front door. It has become popular to choose
a theme for yard decorations. For example,
deck your yard for a Cajun Christmas, Cowboy
Christmas or Victorian holiday. You may opt for
a rustic look casually draping lights over fences
and doorways, or a formal look by featuring
symmetrical lighted trees and a perfectly
outlined roofline.
If you enjoy yard ornaments like wooden
placard cutouts or plastic, lighted statuettes,
place them in the focal point of the front yard.
To do this, position the ornament so it can be
seen best from the street, which might mean
experimenting before you set it in place. Use a
floodlight that is rated for outdoor use to focus
attention on it.
To determine the number of Christmas light
sets needed to string lights across the roof line
or around the front door, check the dimensions
of your roof line with those on the package. To
figure out how many feet of exterior miniature
lights it takes to decorate a bush or tree,
multiply its height by its width in feet and then
multiply this number by six. If you're using full
size lights, cut the number in half.
When choosing light sets, only buy sets that
have been rated "outdoor" which means they
are fused to allow additional strings of lights to
be connected end to end. However, check the
package to find out how many light sets can be
connected to each other so you don't overload
them and blow the strand. Some lights feature
replaceable bulbs which means that if one
burns out you can replace it. With other
strands, if one light burns out, the entire strand
goes out. Invest in heavy duty outdoor
extension cords and try to hide cords by
running them behind bushes or plantings. To
prevent accidents, do not string cords across
walkways or door openings.
If you are taking a break from outdoor lights
this year, place luminaries along your sidewalk
or driveway to adorn your exterior. You can
make tin can luminaries using soup cans with
one end cut out and a candle inside of them, or
you can purchase luminary bags which you fill
partially with sand to keep the candle standing
straight. It's easy to embellish tin can
luminaries by punching holes in the side of the
can to let the candlelight through. To do this,
freeze water in the tin cans and take a hammer
and nail to pound the holes through the can
and into the ice. The ice keeps the can from
bending while you hammer out trees,
snowflakes, or any other festive pattern.
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