Decorating for December

My husband and I opted to decorate for our at-home holidays – perhaps not as much as some previous years but enough to remind us of the season.

I replaced the Zentangle tiles under the plastic tablecloth on our kitchen table with Christmas cards. I’m glad that I have a good collection of cards from prior years because fewer people are sending cards…following the same trend we’re in sending holiday messages via texts or emails rather than cards.

There are also cards with magnets glued to the back that I put on the refrigerator, the metal door out to the garage, and the frame of the French door in the breakfast area that we rarely open. I had a small wire tree that I previously used to display hangable art glass; I put the Zentangle coasters I made last year on the tree and am very pleased with it (it was a lot easier than putting up our larger tree that requires moving of furniture to make room and then circling around it with the lights…carrying up bins of ornaments from the basement).

Overall – we put the inside decorations where they can be enjoyed over meals and shared time in the den.

We put the artificial wreath on the front door and are still working to get the timer set to come on just after dark. That decoration is to add some cheer to the neighborhood. Our across-the-street neighbors have decorations in their yard – maybe more than last year; their young children are probably full of anticipation for the coming month.

I’m already beginning to think about special things we’ll do – maybe driving around to see the lights one evening, buying a red velvet cake….or maybe it should be a carrot cake, having logs ready for a fire in the fireplace, making sure the ingredients for snow ice cream are in the pantry. It is looking like a December that still includes most of our favorite things!