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Holiday
Decorating Tips: Christmas Candles
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by: Jeanette
Joy Fisher
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How
to Light Up Your Home for Joy
Do you love the winter holiday season or does this
time of year cause you stress? One way to lower
your holiday stress, using fewer decorations,
decreases your "just have to much to do"
list.
However, you still want to display Christmas
candles because these decorations bring smiles to
you and your loved ones. As days grow shorter and
cooler and the suns sets earlier, people naturally
crave the warmth and comfort of light, especially
natural sources such as a bonfire 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 sidewalk with luminaries. Get a
similar effect with four large candles in clear
glass containers near your front door. These
glowing candles will welcome your guests without
all the work of gathering bags, buying votive
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. Pamper 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 comforted 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 around your bathtub
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 simply enjoy the peace
and stillness. Ponder the joys in your life and
express gratitude. This quiet time may be your
most treasured gift to yourself.
Candlelight Carol-Sing
Recycle last year's greeting cards by cutting each
into a disk or rounding the edges, punch a hole in
the center, and slide a taper candle half-way
through the hole. Gather your friends and family
around 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 world 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
candlelight ritual. My daughter’s children walk
to bed, each carefully carrying a lighted candle
through a dark hallway, singing "Silent
Night."
Happy Holidays!
© Jeanette Fisher
About the author:
Free holiday decorating ideas teleclass,
"Interior Design Secrets to Glorious Holiday
Decorating" and more holiday decorating tips
Joy Holidays Decorating http://JoyHolidays.com
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