Outdoor Christmas Decorations
This year was surely the year of the outdoor Christmas decoration. Has anyone noticed how Christmas yard decorations keep getting bigger and bigger each season? My neighbor had a blow up lawn decoration that was a snowman, it must have stood 15 feet high. In the spirit of supporting crafts people I will be looking for homemade decorations for my yard again next year, or I will be making them myself.
What kinds of outdoor decorations were popular this year in our neighborhood?
- Blow up Snow Globes - At first, these large air filled decorations looked great until I noticed that many of them were filled with frost after just a few nights out in the cold.
- Blow up Christmas Characters - These weather the storm a little better than snow globes but they turn your neighborhood into a Disney theme park.
- Colored Lights - Last year white strings of Christmas lights where popular but this year it seemed that more colored lights decorated the neighborhood.
What types of outdoor decorations will never go out of style?
- Sleighs - I passed a beautiful old sleigh out in a big yard that had a light pointing up at it from ground level. The light cast a magical hue of colors over it and you could not help but think Christmas when you looked its way.
- Decorated Trees - Decorating fir and blue spruce trees out in a yard from year to year will never go out of style. Lights that shine through freshly fallen snow on a big live Christmas tree bring back memories of past holiday seasons.
- Wreaths - Christmas wreaths keep getting more and more intricate with their attractive bows and tied on dried carnations. The lady down the street was selling them faster than she could make them this year.
- Outdoor Lights - Outdoor Christmas lights look good on any home or object, from wreath to tree to fence to sleigh.
Decorations will come and go but the ones that stay are those that are not bought in stores. An old wooden sleigh or sled strung with Christmas lights just represents the season better.
