December the Holidays Month
By Anna
@LadyDuck (471500)
Switzerland
December 3, 2018 9:47am CST
I know, I am late for my first post of the month post, put I gave priority to craft some Christmas decorations.
In the photo you can see some decorations I made yesterday.
A small Christmas tree, a winter village that painted on clay, some paper huts and finally some branches of our holly tree.
December:
- the last month of the year gets its name from the Latin word "decem" meaning ten. In the ancient times this was the 10th month of the year.
- The flower of December is narcissus, the birthstone the blue Zircon, Turquoise and Tanzanite (all blue stones)
- December 12th is Poinsettia Day, the plant often used to decorate the house for Christmas.
The decorations on a Christmas tree have specific meanings:
- candles represent the light of the world
- the Star on top is a reminder of the comet and the first Christmas night
- the candy canes represent the Shepherd’s cane.
Did you craft some homemade Christmas decorations?
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@ptrikha_2 (46951)
• India
4 Dec 18
Wow ! All these decorations look so wonderful.
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@allknowing (136411)
• India
4 Dec 18
There is no limit to what is being put up on a Christmas Tree. I shopped online and got so many little objects last year - candies, santas, icicles, gift boxes, .............................
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@allknowing (136411)
• India
4 Dec 18
@LadyDuck I donated my tree to the mentally challenged institute last year. This year I am not doing much for Xmas as I have that party later in January.
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@LadyDuck (471500)
• Switzerland
4 Dec 18
@allknowing We are doing very little, but I never miss to put up our tree, no more the big and tall one, a smaller tree, but still very nice.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
3 Dec 18
I have never made any decorations.
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@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
3 Dec 18
All your decorations are so sweet! We haven't crafted our own decorations in a long time. Except for when we spray painted out tree black haha
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A Black tree is a great idea, I would like to do something more in the next few days.@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
8 Dec 18
@LadyDuck our black tree works so we can have Halloween and Christmas haha!
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
4 Dec 18
I like your Christmas decorations 
The only Christmas decorations I have made this year are stars made from paper. I make two different kinds - small stars (standard stars) and larger stars. Many people are able to make the small stars and I learned it many year ago. I have designed the large stars. I experimented and created them by trial and error.
Our Christmas tree is very small and my own stars are too big for the tree, so I use the small stars for the tree. I will put my own stars in the windows.
The only Christmas decorations I have made this year are stars made from paper. I make two different kinds - small stars (standard stars) and larger stars. Many people are able to make the small stars and I learned it many year ago. I have designed the large stars. I experimented and created them by trial and error.
Our Christmas tree is very small and my own stars are too big for the tree, so I use the small stars for the tree. I will put my own stars in the windows.1 person likes this
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
4 Dec 18
@LadyDuck Little angels sound nice. My mother used to make angels, but I don't have them anymore. I enjoying making the stars. I have so many of them that I have started giving them away to family and friends.
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@LadyDuck (471500)
• Switzerland
4 Dec 18
@Porcospino When I go shopping the next Thursday I see I can find small polystyrene balls for the heads.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
4 Dec 18
Never seen a Holly tree before. It is so pretty. Do the berries appear these season.
Your decorations are very pretty.
I don't decorate for Christmas but reading all these posts make me want to
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@LadyDuck (471500)
• Switzerland
4 Dec 18
@responsiveme This is something I like, even for minor celebrations, like a birthday.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
4 Dec 18
@LadyDuck of course it is so nice to have decorations for a festival
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@Fliafaith (763)
• Nairobi, Kenya
4 Dec 18
You are talented dear as for me I don't know how to make decorations
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@a_jerobon (2304)
• Eldoret, Kenya
4 Dec 18
That's so great information, thanks for sharing. Your decorations look awesome. You are so creative.
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