December Decor

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Tis The Season To Warm The Heart & Home

Photo by: Sixteen Miles Out @sixteenmilesout

The holiday season is an opportunity to change the feeling in a home through decor, textures, scents, food and elements found in nature. This time of year also allows for time and attention to be spent on preparation, planning, arranging, rearranging with plenty of forgetting and last minute-ing. There are some benefits to the pressures of the holiday season which are self-reflection, sharing and slowing down. Even the scrooggiest of scrooges can find something enjoyable about the holiday season.

Here are some ways to simplify the endless holiday season to-do list. Choose…

  1. Three Main Food Items

  2. Three Decorative Elements

  3. Three Seasonal Activities or Experiences

The goal of this list is to minimize the amount of chaos that clutters up already full schedules and to prioritize what is most important to you and your family. Spread these tasks throughout the month of December to relieve some of the time and financial pressures. As far as gifts go, that will be a topic covered later this week.

On a not-so-bright side, the holiday season comes with challenges for those who wear many hats in their lives. Scheduling conflicts, financial issues along with mental and emotional health, put enormous additional weight on a lot of people during this time of year. With all of the pretty distractions of the holidays, it can be quite lonely for some who are celebrating the first holiday after losing loved ones, a job loss or choosing to separate from emotionally abusive loved ones. Please go into this holiday season with patience and kindness for yourself and others and remember, everyone is going through something.

Back to the brighter side of the season…those twinkly, blinkly lights ain’t gonna put themselves up so hop to it!

Holiday Tablescape

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Setting the dinner table for holidays can be almost as daunting as planning, prepping and cooking the meal. This year, consider using items you already have around the house in new and innovative ways. Every concept starts with a vision/feel/vibe/theme and start visualizing your table. Make a list of the items you’d like to use such as a table runner, napkins, candlesticks, dishes, placemats, cutlery and a centerpiece. Next, walk around the house and pull items that look like they compliment the concept of your vision. This is a chance to reimagine and experiment with flipping flower pots of varying sizes upside down to create elevation for your centerpiece. Look for things with texture to ground the table and showcase the lighter items. If there are plants or flowers around the house consider if they will tie your tablescape together as a centerpiece or smaller accents. Keep an open mind and go outside for some natural elements to add such as branches, pine cones and evergreens. Lastly, if time permits, create custom place cards or a handwritten menu as a finishing touch. Enjoy creative tablescaping!

Photo by: Visual Stories II Micheile @micheile

Be Grateful!