Holiday Decorating Tips: Christmas Candles
Jeanette Joy Fisher
How to Light Up Your Home for Joy by Decorating with
Christmas Candles
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 Decorating 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
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