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This week’s question: What single item of holiday decor most captures the spirit of the season in your home?
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There are many, but it's gotta be the tree!
I love the porcelain angel on top of the tree. She does’t get added until Christmas eve to represent the miracle of Christmas.
What a beautiful tradition!
Our tree because we go and cut it down ourselves. We are actually going to do it today!! I am soo excited.
We have a little mouse advent calendar hanging in our kitchen that we've had since I was a little kid. I always loved moving the mouse from day to day. It's one of the first decorations that we put up each year and it has never failed to get me into the holiday spirit.
hot spiced teas and candles lit in the late afternoon…
I think our tree, because I just love it so much. Every morning my husband leaves before me, and turns the tree on, so that it is lit when I wake up…my favorite part of the holiday season!
How sweet. He sounds like a keeper. Merry Christmas.
I think that the bell attached to a gingerbread-looking with a teddy bear cut out that we put in our door each year is the most celebratory part of Christmas. It jingles any time someone enters or exits the house. Happy holidays!!!!
I think a few years ago I'd have said the tree, but it's actually a few specific childhood ornaments that go ON the tree – if I didn't have the ball ornament with my initial in glitter tape that my dad made me when I was little, it wouldn't be Christmas. If I didn't have the heart-shaped ornament I bought the year my dad died on the tree, it wouldn't be Christmas.
Of course, I leave my Santa Claus collection up year round in my china closet in the dining room so perhaps narrowing it down to one thing for me might not be so easy…
Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
For us, it's the Christmas tree!
The stockings. I've had mine since I was born. They aren't just beautiful — they add a touch of past Christmases.
In our home nothings say's Holiday's like our cinnamon scented pine cones basket's, with a touch of baby's breath and some Holly's, I like to spread them all over our house to get an even scent I do this right after Thanksgiving to start our Holiday's, when I come home from work or school and feel tired or stressed and opened the door that first cinnamon scent just takes your breath away my children love it.
Definitely the Christmas tree. You can beat that smell, decorating it with the family, etc. A great feeling and something I look forward to every year without a doubt.
Without a doubt, my Santa collection! I buy one each year right after Christmas to add to the existing Santas–they're on sale and I just tuck it away with the collection. That way, every year there is a new Santa to see right away.
My sister does the same thing. I love the collection. It's funny, her daughter (24 years) is creeped out by them because they look so real. lol
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The nativity scene that we display in our house says it all.
Mine too!
I grew up in and have married into an interfaith family so i love the mix of Hanukah and Christmas in our house. Stockings on the mantle, menorah on the counter, and a christmas tree with blue and white ornaments. It helps both my husband and I keep the traditions we grew up with over the years.
The single most important Holiday Decoration in my house is a picture of my boys with Santa that they had taken on their own as a gift to me. It was one of the most thoughtful gifts I had ever received. The photo is the first decoration I hang and the last I put away.
My Nativity. It belonged to my mother. I think of her and my dad and our family Christmas Eves (7 brothers and sisters) when I set it up. Our family still gets together on Christmas Eve.
I have a collection of Santas that my grandma started for me years ago, and it's still growing!
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Like so many others have said, I love the Christmas tree as the thing that captures the holiday but it's just not any Christmas tree. You see, I have two Christmas trees that I put up each year. One is decorated to go with my living room decor and the other one is smaller but oh so much more meaningful and precious.
This Christmas tree is decorated with my chidren's handmade ornaments (they're grown adults now) and some of my deceased mother-in-law's original 'old' glass ornaments (like the ones you see today that are trying to capture the 'old' look today, mine are ORIGINALS!!!) but the best thing about THIS Christmas tree is the fact that the manger is displayed underneath to celebrate the birth of Christ.
i would the angel doll my daddy got before he past it remember me of him and it great to have it this year.
The menorah.
white lights
It wouldn't feel like Cristmas without the Christmas tree and all of our keepsake ornaments!!!!
Single item? Hmmm I'd probably have to say the ornaments I made in kindergarten (construction paper squares and red and green drinking straw garland) and in 1st grade (brown construction paper cut-out rudolf with red and green sequins.) No matter what my tree decor is, these two ornaments I made over 40 years ago are always on my tree.
Nothing beats the smell of fresh greenery either.
The manger scene.
The item in our home that most captures the spirit of the season is the lighted and decorated garland we place over the living room door. We adorn the garland with beautiful, colorful ornaments. However, the centerpiece always remains the same… a toy mouse. The moose dangles right over the doorway, like a bunch of mistletoe.
Our tree with all of our children's ornaments.
I just quilted us a new holiday table runner!
Our Christmas tree…decorating it in particular brings back childhood memories of christmas
Ours would have to be the Christmas tree.
tree!
My favorite part of Christmas decorating is the gifts under the tree! when I walk past my tree and see all the gifts underneath, I think of how much fun it was to pick each gift and how much fun it will be to see the people I love open their gifts on Christmas day.
A Santa "wreath" my son and I made from a kit ~15 years ago – it's made from 1/2 a bleach bottle, with glued felt for the face and hat, and then you wrap yarn and attach with pipe cleaners for the hair, beard and pompom. It's meant to hang on your front door, but I hung it inside so it wouldn't get ruined.
We had so much fun making it, I went back to the store and bought the rest of the kits they had, and we gave them (finished) as presents to family and friends.
That Santa means the holidays to me more than anything else
I have a very small Nativity that the kids used to play with that sits under my tree.
Twinkling lights. To me it doesn't matter if they adorn the tree, the mantle or outside the home. It just makes everything LOOK like Christmas to me. But the spirit of Christmas is in the smiles which reflect the heart.
My Nativity. It was a wedding present 28 years ago- and speaks true of the season.
In my home, the decoration that captures the spirit of Christmas to me is a snow globe my husband gave to me many years ago. The reason it captures the spirit for me is not because it plays a Christmas tune or because it has an outdoor winter scene on the inside, but the fact that my software engineering, numbers-crunching, "just give me the facts in a PowerPoint presentation" husband noticed I lit up like a Christmas tree every time I saw a snow globe, and secretly bought one for me. Each time I take the snow globe out of its box and put it in a place of honor every year, I get a little misty eyed and remember the day I opened my gift. It was the one time my husband was not his practical self and bought me something just because he knew it would bring me joy.
The homemade ornaments accummulated over the years bring special memories..
The old Santa face that we put on the door for everyone to see when they walk in. My grandma made it and it is so fun!
This would look so pretty on my front door! Thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite part of the Christmas season is putting up the Christmas tree. This year we are in Florida far away from our family for the first time ever and we have no one near us so I am very sad not to have my Grandchildren to help us decorate the tree. I even had to get a fake tree for the first time ever. Yikes. But I brought my old ornaments w/ me for memories of Christmas past.. New friends and new traditions will get us in the Holiday spirit and so does skype!
Ornaments! Each represents something special. My favorite is probably the Candy Man my son made in grade school. It still brings a smile – so many years later!
My nativity set….the real meaning of the celebration!
the nativity scene!
Well, obviously it's the tree but I also love my leg lamp from A Christmas Story. It's so tacky but every time it catches my eye I giggle to myself. We don't have a front window for it to sit in but we do have a back window!
I think the best thing in my house is, the combination of many things. The smells of the Christmas tree, cookies baking, the santa suit I have in the closet. My Grandkids think I know Santa personally. I told them I store it here so if he spills any cookies and milk, he can change his suit here. But, the real thing is my nativity scene my Mom made for me.
I would say our christmas tree once it is all decorated.
A crystal nativity set. I can remember every year growing up setting it up at Christmas. It sits on top of a mirror, and catches and reflects a lot of light. I always loved it. When I got married seven years ago, my mom gave it to me. So now it's part of my own Christmas decorating