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If I decorate at all, it is pretty minimal. One of my favorite decorations was a a small, multiply forked sycamore branch hung horizontally over the sofa. I suspended a few 3/4 inch glass balls from it with skinny red ribbon. Minimal but festive. And so easy to clean up later.
When our son was young (5 years), he asked that we not buy a cut tree, as he did not want to participate in killing a tree. So, we bought a very small dwarf Alberta spruce (they can probably live in Alaska, kork13) from a nursery, put it into a nice pot, brought it indoors to decorate it. We actually carried it back outside some days to get sun and winter chill. When the holidays were over, we kept the tree on our patio. This was our Christmas tree for several years, as the species grows very slowly, so I could still carry it in and out.
In college, I worked two years at a museum that had a very large grounds with all the makings for southern or Williamsburg style decorating. For the holidays we collected from the grounds green magnolia leaves and cones, holly branches, pyrethrum berries, pine twigs, boxwood, etc and worked them up in a fashion worthy of a high end florist. That was a style I very much like, but I could not repeat it in my home home without spending a lot to obtain the plant material.
I do appreciate the outdoor decorating people do. What a lot of work goes into that! The more outrageous the better, ha-ha. Well, no, I actually really love the simple candles in windows, tasteful green wreaths, and pine roping. These seem like quiet, peaceful, homey ways of decorating.
When our son was young (5 years), he asked that we not buy a cut tree, as he did not want to participate in killing a tree. So, we bought a very small dwarf Alberta spruce (they can probably live in Alaska, kork13) from a nursery, put it into a nice pot, brought it indoors to decorate it. We actually carried it back outside some days to get sun and winter chill. When the holidays were over, we kept the tree on our patio. This was our Christmas tree for several years, as the species grows very slowly, so I could still carry it in and out.
In college, I worked two years at a museum that had a very large grounds with all the makings for southern or Williamsburg style decorating. For the holidays we collected from the grounds green magnolia leaves and cones, holly branches, pyrethrum berries, pine twigs, boxwood, etc and worked them up in a fashion worthy of a high end florist. That was a style I very much like, but I could not repeat it in my home home without spending a lot to obtain the plant material.
I do appreciate the outdoor decorating people do. What a lot of work goes into that! The more outrageous the better, ha-ha. Well, no, I actually really love the simple candles in windows, tasteful green wreaths, and pine roping. These seem like quiet, peaceful, homey ways of decorating.
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