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All Just about Interior DesignHoliday Decorating Tips: Christmas Candles
by:
Jeanette Joy Fisher
How to Light Up Your House for Joy
Do you love the winter holiday season or makes this time of year cause you stress? One way to lower your holiday stress, exploitation fewer decorations, decreases your "just have to more to do" list.
However, you still want to display Christmas candles because these decorations bring smiles to you and your admired ones. As days grow shorter and cooler and the suns sets earlier, folk naturally crave the warmth and comfort of light, especially natural sources such as a balefire or the flame of a Christmas candle.
Christmas Candle Tips
Luminaries
Save your energy and your money. You don't need to line your entire pavement with luminaries. Get a similar effect with four large candles in clean glass containers near your front door. These glowing candles wish welcome your guests without all the activity of gathering bags, purchasing consecrated candles that just burn up fast, and shoveling all that sand.
Window Candles
Many cultural holiday traditions include placing a lighted candle in front windows to be seen from the outside. Featherbed yourself. Place a candle in any dark window at night. Rather than peering into a dark void, you'll focus on the cheerful flame and feel comfortable
and uplifted.
Gift Yourself
Create a nightly quiet ritual for yourself in a quiet place away from distractions and the hustle of the holidays. Place candles about your bathing tub and unwind, or by your favorite reading chair and instead of reading sit in the quiet and reflect upon the brightness of a single candlelight. Listen to quiet music or just enjoy the peace and stillness. Chew over the joys in your life and express gratitude. This quiet time may be your most cherished gift to yourself.
Candlelight Carol-Sing
Recycle last year's salutation cards by cutting each into a disk or rounding error the edges, punch a hole in the center, and slide a taper candle half-way through the hole. Gather your friends and family about the piano or hearth and sing familiar Christmas carols as each person holds their own candlelight. Pause to reflect upon the fact that each individual brings their own special light to the earth and recognize the common spiritual light in each of us.
Candle Night-Night
When it's time to settle the children down to bed on Christmas Eve, calm them with a soothing candle flame ritual. My daughter’s children walk to bed, each cautiously carrying a lighted candle through a dark hallway, singing "Silent Night."
Happy Holidays!
© Jeanette Fisher
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