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Holiday Decorating
Ideas and Party Planning
Organization and planning helps you keep on
top of your holiday parties. Enjoy your holiday
decorating this year with some new ideas.
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decorating ideas,party planning,Jeanette Fisher
Make decorating your home for holiday parties a pleasure
instead of a stressful nightmare. Organization and
planning helps you keep on top of your holiday parties.
Create a gorgeous party planning notebook with an
inexpensive plastic three-ring binder that has a space
to insert an inspirational picture. Keep cutouts from
magazines of ideas you love about decorating, themes,
menus, and recipes. Keep notes about your party
afterwards so you remember what worked well and what to
do differently next year. Your personal party journal
will be an invaluable assistant to help you avoid
holiday stress.
<b>Holiday Decorating</b>
Enjoy your home decorating for the holidays. Don't try
to do too much. Keep in mind that people love to come to
homes decked out in festive array but that it doesn't
take a lot of cluttering ornamentation to create a
holiday statement. Just a few large decorations can add
the desired impact without taking a lot of time to set
out. Plus, too many little decorations get lost when you
have many people standing around.
<b>Where to
decorate for impact</b>:
1. Your front walkway:
Greet guests at the entrance with lights surrounding
your front door and two large poinsettias or evergreen
trees.
2. Your front door: A large swag of
evergreen decorated with nuts, apples, raffia, and
ribbon spiced up with cinnamon sticks and cloves makes a
different statement than the usual wreath.
3.
Your dining table: If you plan a sit-down dinner, avoid
tall centerpieces that interfere with guests seeing
across the table. White table cloths reflect the light,
add a feeling of elegance, and don't interfere with
colored china. Bold colors add drama. Have fun with your
table decorations.
4. Look up: Because table
decorations get in the way, add garlands above archways
and doors.
5. Your powder room: Because guests
use this room privately, they take the time to look
around and notice decorations.
If your TV looks
like a black hole in your room when it's off, play an
old black and white classic movie with the sound turned
off.
Enjoy your holiday decorating this year. Try
some new ideas and keep a party planner for next year.
You'll be ready for new holiday decorating ideas!
Copyright © Jeanette J. Fisher
Holiday Decorating
Ideas And The Environment
Have you thought about how your holiday
decorating affects the environment? What can you do
about your holiday decorating to improve your happiness
and at the same time be kind to the environment?
The good news, taking action to decorate your home and
office for the holidays, while keeping respect for the
environment, makes your workload easier.
Conquer
holiday stress with simplicity. Keep your decorations to
a minimum. Simple holiday decorating makes your life
easier t...
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decorating,holiday stress,environment,environmental
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Have you thought about how your
holiday decorating affects the environment? What can you
do about your holiday decorating to improve your
happiness and at the same time be kind to the
environment?
The good news, taking action to
decorate your home and office for the holidays, while
keeping respect for the environment, makes your workload
easier.
Conquer holiday stress with simplicity.
Keep your decorations to a minimum. Simple holiday
decorating makes your life easier to manage.
Simple decorating doesn't mean no impact. You can use
Environmental Psychology strategies to achieve a
stunning display with less work. At the same time, you
can save money on new holiday decorations.
Eignt
Environmental Psychology Holiday Decorating Tips
1. Too many small items in a small space tire the eye
and overload the brain. Don't go over the top with
holiday decorations. Don't spend your money foolishly on
a lot of cluttering ornamentation.
2. Choose a
few large holiday decorations to make a bold statement.
Bright and deep colors take up more visual space.
3. Make a gorgeous framed note on parchment that
says: "We love the earth and choose to celebrate with
nature."
4. Work with the holiday decorations
you already have. Renew tired ornaments with non-toxic
craft paint.
5. Decorate with consumable food,
like nuts, fresh fruit, and cookies.
6. Decorate
with Mother Nature. Cuttings of evergreens bring respite
to tired eyes and fresh aroma to enclosed stale air.
7. Increase your office productivity and business
prosperity. When people feel happy, they accomplish
more. Take a tip from music therapy expert Enicia
Fisher: Play easily-recognized soft music without
voices. This encourages signing or humming to oneself to
fill in the lyrics.
8. Instead of hanging lights
all over your home, concentrate on the front entry to
attract the eye and make all feel welcome.
Defeat
holiday stress this year. Use holiday decorating ideas
that protect the environment and yourself.
Happy
Holidays!
© Jeanette Fisher
Holiday Decorating
Ahh… the holidays. You either love them or
you dread them. Some holidays, we could certainly live
without. No matter if you love them or hate them, there
is still the sense of spirit that goes along with them.
Almost everywhere you go, you’ll see holiday decorating
taking place no matter what season it happens to be. In
October, you’ll encounter the scariest of decorations in
existence. In December, you’ll see the dazzles of
twinkling lights and the air is filled with the scent of
pine. In the spring, you’ll see an Easter bunny hopping
around. No matter what time of the year, holiday
decorating is all around us.
Some people tend to
go a lot crazier than the next person when it comes to
holiday decorating. They decorate their trees, porches,
yards and inside of their homes with everything
imaginable. People walk or drive by their houses and
wonder what kind of crazy person lives there. And excess
holiday decorating doesn’t mean that people are crazy,
it could just mean that they enjoy the holidays as much
as possible.
The most decorated holiday is, of
course, Christmas. Pine trees are sold in parking lots,
twinkling lights appear on the outdoor shrubberies and
candles are placed in windows. Ornaments are cautiously
hung on tiny branches, stockings are hung and the mall
intercoms blurt out Christmas carols to the bustling
shoppers. There is no doubt about it, holiday decorating
peaks in December. You can walk through any department
store and find a million different types of decorations
to purchase. Some people will spend hundreds of dollars
every season to purchase new items for their holiday
decorating. Others will reuse the previous year’s
decorations. Then there are the people who will stroll
through those holiday aisles at their local department
stores and admire all of the glamorous decorations.
They’ll laugh at the prices and head to their local
thrift or art stores. They’ll buy the supplies, head
home and make their own holiday decorations. If you’re
not the least bit creative, this idea is definitely not
something that you will find appealing. But, if you like
the idea of creating something unique and priceless, it
just may be a great idea. It also, may be a great idea
for gift giving as well. Creating handmade ornaments
always make excellent gifts for family and friends. By
creating unique holiday decorating items, you just made
gift giving a whole lot easier. And, this doesn’t just
hold true for Christmas. This can be for any holiday.
There are always decorating ideas that can be created
for an occasion, as holiday decorating will always
exist. You know what they say – if you can’t beat them,
join them!