Holiday Decorations 2025
I just love how my home looks this time of year - filled with cheerful holiday decorations.
No matter where I am for Christmas, I always like to decorate several rooms with festive trees, wreaths, and pretty plants from the greenhouse. This year, some of my decorations include gold and silver trees glistening with ornaments, coordinating wreaths on the windows, woodland animals, colorful forced amaryllis, and shooting stars.
Here are some photos, enjoy.
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- It’s mid-December and less than two weeks left before Christmas. Have you decorated your home for the holidays? I start decorating soon after Thanksgiving. This is one of two Index fir trees in my Brown Room. And yes, they are both live trees.
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- Every year, I try to vary the holiday decorations in my home. Gold ornaments and warm white lights fill the branches of this tree.
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- I also placed toy bears within the wide spaces between the branches – don’t shy away from experimenting with your decorations. Look in the children’s toy box for possibilities.
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- Gold, silver, and copper bottlebrush trees adorn the long dining table in this room.
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- … Along with several deer and moose.
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- The animals are interspersed between the trees as if they are walking through the woodland in winter.
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- Indoors I always hang wreaths on every window. Do you know… before the wreath became associated with Christmas, it was used as a token of victory and power in ancient Greece and Rome? Wreaths first appeared as holiday decorations in connection with Yule, which marked the winter solstice for early Germanic Pagans. The wreaths were a symbol of spring and a promise of its return.
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- In my sitting room – silver Christmas trees with silver and white ornaments.
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- Every room has festive trees during the holiday season. This is one side of my servery.
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- The trees shimmer with gold and green pinecone ornaments. Look closely, there are also birds sitting on the branches.
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- In my enclosed porch, gorgeous forced amaryllis flowers. I forced several amaryllis and am so happy with all the flowers that came up.
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- They were forced from these bulbs. Amaryllis bulbs usually measure about three to six inches across. When planting more than one in a container, be sure there is at least an inch between the bulb sides and the rim of the vessel.
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- Of all flowering bulbs, amaryllis are the easiest to bring to bloom. Amaryllis originated in South Africa and comes in many beautiful varieties. The genus Amaryllis comes from the Greek word amarysso, which means “to sparkle.” Amaryllis flowers range from four to 10 inches in size and can be single or double in form.
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- While the most popular colors are red and white, flowers may also be pink, salmon, apricot, rose or deep burgundy, and some unique striped varieties.
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- I hang shooting stars on the outside of several buildings every year here at the farm.
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- Here’s Pete placing one on my Winter House. The shooting stars are hung securely using small nails and screw eyes at various points.
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- And here’s a tip: when using extension cords to connect outdoor decorations, use supplies that match the exterior of the building. I use grayish-tan extension cords, so they are not seen against the siding. They can also be painted to match. And be certain any electrical supplies are safe to use outdoors.
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- Pete and Fernando are experts at this task – they hang the stars every year. Once the star is placed, Pete separates the taillights, so they swoop properly and are all equally spaced across the front of the building. Here’s a shooting star on the outside of my studio.
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- Before putting any lights up inside or out, be sure to check that all of them are working.
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- Pete is putting this star above my stable. I always hang a star on the side of the stable facing my Winter House, so I can see it from my bedroom window.
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- This shooting star is hung above the sliding doors of my Equipment Barn.
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- And look, once night falls, the stars shine so brightly. Do you know what a true shooting star is? A shooting star is actually a small piece of rock or dust that hits Earth’s atmosphere from space. It moves so fast that it heats up and glows as it moves through the skies. Astronomers call them meteors. Most meteors burn up before they even reach the ground. Happy holiday decorating!
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