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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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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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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!