Christmas Decorations

Christmas is the best time of the year. It’s the time to bring out all the decorations from Christmas Storage that you’ve accumulated over the years and a great excuse to go out and add some new ones too. I’ve found that each person is different in their decorating technique, some like to start outside and move in, while others like to start with the inside and move out. Myself, I’m the inside to the outside person and I like to start with the Christmas Tree. I love lights on the tree, but I hate putting them on the tree so I have an Imperial Fir Pre Lit Artificial Tree, the optimum word here is pre lit with about 800 lights on it so it looks really nice. Next I like to put some Pre Lit Northern Pine Garland on the mantle going behind the Chubby Nutcracker Stocking Holders which have to set at the front edge to hold the Stockings for Santa.

For the rest of the house I like to put Nutcrackers around the living and dining rooms and accented with some Battery Operated Candles which seem to fit in most candle stick holders. I like these candles because to turn them on you just push down on the top rather than pick them up and turn the switch on the bottom and being LED they last a very long time. Also on the dining room table I like to put some Battery Operated Lights in and around the centerpiece. Now for the front door, I like to use a Battery Operated Wreath so I don’t have to worry about cords getting smashed in the door or cords moving where someone might trip over them. In the entry way I have found that a small grouping of a two, three and four foot Pre Lit Alpine Display Trees adds a wonderful touch.

Now on to the outside, where Christmas Lights seem to be the first thing to go up around the house and trees. You have to decide if you want to Save some Green in the long run by going with LED Lights and lower that December electric bill now or go with the traditional Lights Strings. There is also the Nativity Scene to set up, with Nativity Figures and the Wooden Nativity Stable. Or you could go with some Large Decorations like the Illuminated Gift Boxes or the Gingerbread Boy or even the Illuminated Candy Cane.

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Christmas Ornaments

I love Christmas. Today with the world getting ever smaller, we have access to Christmas Ornaments and ideas from all over the world. As well as sending our own ideas for decorations to the rest of the world. So its time to pull those ornaments out of their Ornament Storage Boxes and use them!

One of my many favorite ornaments is the Glass Pickle. This ornament has a wonderful story about it, from a small region in Germany. The idea was that the Glass Pickle is to be hidden on the Christmas Tree last and the first child to find it on Christmas Eve receives an extra gift. Other favorites are Nutcracker Ornament Sets, these usually come four to six in a set. They can be hung on the tree or placed around a center piece or really anywhere around the house to add that extra festive mood. Theres even Wooden Namecard Holder Nutcrackers for the dinner table.

Shatterproof ornaments have also come along ways in just the last couple of years. They are made of a durable plastic, and Shatterproof ornaments can look as well as a hand-blown glass ornament, with the added bonus of not shattering and sending glass shards throughout the room. They also come in as many different styles as the glass ones, from Santa, Snowmen and Nutcrackers to Trains, Airplanes and Lava Balls.

But the one sure thing to always bring out the Christmas spirit is Christmas Lights. Wither you use the energy saving  LED Lights, or the long lasting LED minis or LED C7’s or the more traditional Candle Tip Clear or the regular C7, they all light up a child’s face. There are also Battery Operated Candles which can be used to decorate the house or used with Large Decoration, where you could place the candle in the hands of Nativity Figures or around a Nativity Scene. I still drive thru neighborhoods where most of the houses are decorated with lights, where each street has a theme and you cant help but feel the peace of the season.
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Shatterproof Ornaments

Over the years ornaments have really grown into their own art like the Glass Pickle Ornament, there are beautiful hand crafted ornaments, glass that is hand painted or hand blown glass shaped into a variety of ornaments. While all of these can look exquisite, they all have one thing in common, they break! And not only do they break, they can explode, sending shards of glass into every corner of a room. With most adults it’s not a problem, but for anyone with young children you only have 2 options. Option 1, put a fence around the Christmas tree, while this does keep the children away from the tree it also has the effect of losing you the parent of the year award. Option 2 means leaving the nice, breakable ornaments in their protective boxes until the children are old enough to pay for broken items or have moved out of the house.

But now there is a third option. Shatterproof Ornaments have come a long ways. No longer are they merely a dull plastic bulb, now they come in hundreds of shapes and sizes and looks.  There are ones with glitter and classic glossy and snowmen and nutcrackers and even trains! Now you can show off the beautiful, the cute, and the exquisite ornaments for all to see and enjoy.

Now while Shatterproof means what it says in that the ornament won’t shatter or explode into a thousand pieces across your room, it does not mean unbreakable! Shatterproof ornaments are made of durable plastic. While some of the shatterproof ornaments might bounce and not break, this is more of an exception than the rule. As even if it didn’t break once time, it might break the next time it’s dropped. But if or when it does break, that’s all it does, it simply breaks and the pieces stay close at hand. Then the real family fun begins, seeing who can glue the pieces back together again with the least amount of line and glue showing.
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