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Stewart Wrighter
December is a wonderful month because it is during this time that you celebrate Christmas -- the most wonderful of all Christian festivals. This is a time when you enjoy giving more than receiving and every home tries to reflect a look of light and beauty. A very beautiful way to decorate your home is with the help of picture lights strategically placed all over your walls. You could use a picture light to keep your pictures highlighted and also keep your home lighted at night. Here are a few simple and easy to implement measures to beautify your home during Christmas: 1. String your greeting cards -- every year there are millions who buy and send greetings cards to dear ones. You would be receiving your fair share. A very heartwarming way to decorate your home during Christmas is to string the greeting cards you receive and hang them at different critical places in your home. Some good and eye-catching places could be on the curtains, over the fireplace, on a relatively blank wall and so on. Not only this would remind you of the good wishes sent your way by your dear ones, but also encourage you to be a little kinder to those who are less blessed than you are. 2. Install a good imitation of Fraser fir tree as a Christmas tree -- a huge number of trees are being cut every year during Christmas because people want real trees for the celebrations. Stop! Remember that the Fraser fir tree takes decades to reach the height you need for decoration and deforestation is one of the principal reasons why this planet is dying. Use imitation trees instead -- there are very beautiful ones available that would need you to touch it to know it is not a real one. Contribute your bit to the conservation of our dying planet -- stop buying trees and the cutting would stop as well. 3. Decorate your home with the Christmas colors, for example, red and green -- ensure that you use this combination in everything you do as much as you can. Take out red cushion covers, curtains and match it with green carpets and table cloths. Hand around your fireplace or tree miniature goblins, elves and replica of Christmas Father to recapture and relive the joy of Christmas. 4. Be a channel for joy -- give gifts. Usually we buy and give gifts to our dear ones. Try giving someone whom you know is in need of money. There are many people around you who are economically challenged -- reach out and gift something to them. Make them smile; make them believe in the magic of Christmas. Invite someone hungry into your home for a meal, gift a child a toy, wrap a pullover over the shoulders of a homeless person and you will find your home glowing with love and happiness. 5. Light candles -- of course, ensure that this is done very carefully so you would not set fire to your own home. Putting candles in various places during the night would suffuse your home with a soft and warm light that would reinforce the magic of Christmas.
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