The reminder that the Christmas holidays are approaching, is felt right away. The whole family participates in the purchase and manufacture of jewelry for the spruce and the house, because the Christmas meeting must take place in accordance with certain rules and traditions. Let's hasten to decorate the house and prepare it for the holiday.
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Christmas is coming soon
One of the most magical and unforgettable holidays can be called Christmas. This holiday, dedicated to the birth of Jesus, unites people of different nationalities and religions.
Christmas days are a family holiday, which can be celebrated in a city apartment and in a private house. Many are eager to spend Christmas in a country house. Regardless of the planned location of the event, the celebration features are united by certain common symbols.
Recall that the symbols of Christmas are:
• The star of Bethlehem, who pointed the way to the baby Jesus
• an evergreen Christmas wreath decorated with four candles
• bells, lanterns and garlands
• decorated tree - spruce.
In the traditional decoration of the Christmas tree, not only children but adults participate. How can you decorate a house or plot for Christmas and how to properly cover a festive table?
The entrance ticket to the luxurious life - Golden Ticket
Creating a festive attire at home for Christmas, you need to take care of the bright lighting of the facade and the site and create an image of guiding Star of Bethlehem. For outdoor lighting, you can use luminous cords and garlands, which adorn the gate, porch and even tree trunks.
Luminous and shimmering with the sea of lights, the golden arch of the gate makes it clear that you are a welcome guest, it is enough to provide an entrance ticket only.
For outdoor decoration of the house and the site, it is better to give LED garlands.
Garlands on LEDs are an insignificant consumer of electricity.
Such garlands are easy to install, light and fireproof, which is an important factor. When connecting LED lights, it is recommended to check the wiring and its protection against moisture ingress.
Garlands can work without shutting down for a long time, so the enchanting atmosphere of the holiday will be guaranteed during all Christmas vacations. In practice, LED backlighting serves without failure or replacement of elements for a long time.
christmas wreath
European tradition to decorate the entrance door to evergreen christmas wreath excellently settled down in our land.
The skillful interweaving of flowers, fir branches and ribbons in a wreath symbolizes the unity and strength of the family, promising prosperity and inviting guests to come into the house.
Therefore, the first artwork for Christmas can be a colorful wreath. By the way, you can decorate the front door with your own hand made wreath, celebrating Christmas in the city.
To make a Christmas wreath, artificial imitation of flowers and needles is used. Fasten and decorate the wreath better with the use of hot melt.
How to create and decorate a wreath for Christmas, shown in the video.
well, fir-tree, light up!
But a win-win option for decorating a suburban area and a house is live spruce. The naturalness of fresh aroma of pine needles and rain beads on it is impossible to replace anything. It remains to decorate the spruce with garlands of bright lights and light toys.
Take a look at the features of the site of a private house and select the objects of decoration. These can be visors, pediments, columns and straight lines of the building. Even the old garlands transform with the help of colored lights any house and yard. Change the appearance of garlands can be using large artificial flowers, lanterns, bells or balls.
power of inspiration
You can make Christmas decorations from thick cardboard and thin plastic. To do this, prepare in advance the necessary genre stencils and cut out the details. Colorize the toys can be using acrylic paints, fixed on top of the varnish.
Winning and successful combinations of colors used for suburban illumination are:
• red and bright blue
• white and juicy green
• purple and burning copper.
To fix funny toys and Christmas symbols use a thin wire in the form of twisting loops.
By the way, you can hide the places of connection of garlands on the tree and objects of decoration using bows.
However, among the richness of ornaments for Christmas, children's crafts are especially touched by their own hands.
interior decoration of the house
The interior of the holiday home should be bright and rich. You are lucky if the interior of a country house has a fireplace, which will become the center of the holiday.
Decorate the fireplace you can garlands of fir branches, balls and bows. But the main center of inspiration is the fir in the house. The tradition of decorating the fir in the house is associated with a tree decorated with apples. Since the time of the first apple, designed for decorating a tree, many thousands of years have passed.
To replace natural ornaments from the fetus, hollow glass, light and shiny hollows were invented.
Christmas balls you can buy ready-made or make your own.
How to make a snow ball with your own hands, shown in this video.
Christmas table - time of the first star
In different nationalities, the decoration of the Christmas table is different. But it does not matter what will be given preference for the preparation of national dishes. The only common on the Christmas table is the main dish of the Holy Evening - kutya.
On the festive table, except for Kuti, there should be 11 more dishes, one symbolizing the 12 apostles. These are fish dishes, lean borsch, buckwheat porridge, lean pancakes, pies with stuffing, vareniki with cabbage, cabbage rolls and compote, cooked from dried fruits. The ingredients of cooked meals are corn, honey, and poppy seeds.
Grain glorifies and resurrects life, honey promises sweet life and health, and poppy - joy and prosperity.
The Christmas meal passes without alcohol and begins with the rise of the first star. At the table, you must try every dish to taste the joy and well-being in the coming year.
When celebrating Christmas, there is a sign that the first guest entering your house should be a dark-haired man, whose appearance somewhat resembles the image of the desired creator of the world.