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September 2nd, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Country Living Merry & Bright: 301 Festive Ideas for Celebrating Christmas (Country Living)

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Finding that Unique Christmas Decoration

Shopping for unique Christmas decorations doesn’t have to be so stressful. If you are looking for the right Xmas decoration for sale you’ll probably have to do the rounds of a number of stores. A lot of interesting classic pieces seem to show up in different stores and craft sales throughout the year when the price is ‘out-of-season’. In fact, you can find the odd Christmas decoration for sale at the oddest places where you’re least expecting them.

1. The Flea Market

It is always the holiday season at the flea market. There are tons of unique holiday decorative items for sale at these kinds of gatherings. I have stumbled across beautiful pieces that cost next to nothing but also boast excellent quality as well. You can find a Xmas decoration for sale in mid-July; so keep your eyes open.

2. The Summer Sale

Buying off season for holiday décor is a wonderful way to save money on these kinds of items. A Christmas decoration for sale in the summer will cost way less than one that is for sale in November. This approach does take some patience as well as discipline. It is hard to buy holiday items off season but it pays off in the long run.

3. The Yard Sale

You may think that finding a Christmas decoration for sale during the summer is really difficult but these items are all over the place if you keep your eyes open. I like to frequent yard sales throughout the year. Many families unload all kinds of wonderful Christmas décor all year long.

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4. The Thrift Store

The thrift store is also a great place to find older holiday items that are perfect for a traditional look. I decided to work around one particular Christmas decoration for sale at a thrift store. This decorative item was wonderful because it had a great retro-sixties look that I adore. Within no time at all I found one similar Christmas decoration for sale after another and soon I had a whole ‘60’s theme for my holiday.

5. The Church Bazaar

The great thing about shopping for holiday decorations like this is that they are so inexpensive that you can go from one theme to the next without spending a lot of money. I chose to buy a Xmas decoration for sale that works well with an angel tree theme. After collecting a number of angels at the parish church bring-and-buy sale I was ready to make a holiday decorative piece that was coherent in theme and cost next to nothing to create.

6. E-bay et al

In the last few years a revolution in Christmas shopping has taken place with the emergence of E-bay and other Internet based auctions and shopping sites. A few minutes browsing and power-searching can yield surprising results. I never ceased to be amazed at what folk are selling!

Creativity is at the heart of all holiday decorating projects. A great way to get inspired and give yourself a jump start when the holiday season begins to kick in is to watch out for a Christmas decoration for sale here and there throughout the year. You’ll be surprised how much time and money it will save you in the long run.

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Eoin Beckett is a freelance author and editor. Although he stems from Ireland, he currently lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Read more about Christmas Decorating for Sale at Juletide - the ancient and magical word for Christmas.

Christmas Decorating Ideas: Keeping it Simple

September 2nd, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Christmas: Make It Sparkle–225 Simple Crafts, Food & Decorating Ideas for Your Holiday Home

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Keeping Christmas Simple

We are entering my favourite time of year. All the local stores are beginning to rev up their motors in time for the Christmas season. It always seems that each year shops begin their displays earlier, but perhaps it would be truer to say that as you get older Christmas seems to creep up on you and catch you unawares. However, some major stores begin to introduce holiday themes and Christmas decorating ideas in late summer, and by September they have certainly finished doing their planning. It is easy to get carried away by the whole thing. Personally, I like to keep simple. I try to bear this in mind when I do everything from Christmas decorating ideas to the foods I prepare for guests.

The Old Party

For several years my wife and I would hold an open house at Christmas. We invited co-workers, neighbours, friends and relatives. Each year the list of people we invited would grow in line with the headaches and stress of getting ready for the event. I began baking homemade goodies a month in advance. We made homemade sweets, cookies, pastries and a wide variety of finger foods. I would comb the magazines and stores to come up with the latest Christmas decorating ideas so that each year I would have a new spread of goodies for our guests to experience. We would have so many people in the house that you could hardly move, let alone admire the Christmas décor that my wife and I had come up with. We spent all of our time filling punch bowls, making coffee and replenishing serving platters. We decided that we needed to have a different way to celebrate the holidays with friends.

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Less is More

We looked at the list of people that we invited and agreed that we could eliminate co-workers from the list. We each had holiday parities at work where we could celebrate Christmas. We then decided that we would have smaller gatherings on three different evenings approaching Christmas Eve. This is how we started to keep things simple. We started inviting neighbours over for one evening, friends for another and relatives on another.

The New Party

Now we only serve appetizers and drinks. I still make a variety of homemade goodies, but now I have a cookie exchange with co-workers at our house. This gives me time with co-workers outside the working environment (I’ve discovered that some of them are almost human) and the party gets a wide variety of cookies. I still come up with different Christmas decorating ideas, and with fewer people in the house you can actually see the displays instead of concentrating on not bumping into them and knocking them over. I focus on decorating the trees well. We place one in the living room and one in the family room. I also have candles and greenery arranged on the tables. I also like to use large vases filled with a variety of evergreens along with red and white carnations. The Danes are wild about candles. The first time my mother visited she saw all the candles in the neighbouring windows as we walked along my street and she asked me if there had been a power cut. So, I add a few candles so the room dances in the light of living flame and my Christmas decorating is complete.

You are welcome to use this article on your web-site or blog as long as the resource box and the links it contains remain intact.

Eoin Beckett is a freelance author and editor. Although he stems from Ireland, he currently lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Read more about Christmas Decorating Ideas at Juletide - the ancient and magical word for Christmas.

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