Holiday Decorating Tips: Christmas Candles
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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
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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,
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TODAY'S NEWS:
BETHEL, Conn., Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- By special invitation, Bite-Lite Candles will be heading to the preview party for the 2012 Grammy Awards on February 8 at the SLS Hotel in Hollywood, CA. An ...
One by one, paramedics, firefighters and members of the church faithful placed a lit candle by a name tag identifying each of the 11 dead and three survivors at the foot of the church altar Friday night.
Candles left burning unattended started a blaze that damaged a house Thursday on Fort Wayne's north side, the city's fire department said.
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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
Source:
Cyberxpress
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