These inspiring images and ideas for Christmas Greenery & Garland feature a few favorite holiday decorating ideas. Whether it is fresh evergreens, faux greenery, a mix, or citrus garlands, there is something classically traditional and festive about these trimmings. Also, do you ever decorate with little crowns? What’s the royal fuss about anyway? I have reflections to share about them.
Christmas Greenery & Garland, Darlin’
Deep, Dark Colors With Timeless Elegance
It’s not often we see low contrast and this elegant black, gold, and green holiday scheme.
Fresh Greenery Embellished With White Bows, Pine Cones & Tassels
Such an enchanting staircase moment that strikes just the right balance of rustic elegance!
Swoonworthy Swag in a French Country Bedroom
I can only imagine how beautiful this looks in the dark with the tiny fairy lights…
Bicycle Wheel With Greenery & Pine Cones
Fresh Greenery Tutorial
Gold Bells + Christmas Wreaths
Front Doors Festooned With Garland
Holiday Fireplace Greenery
Holiday Staircase Inspiration
Christmas Citrus Garland
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Christmas & Crowns
Crowns and Christmas go together for plenty of Christian folks given the celebration is for the birth of a king.
Since crowns were historically associated with nobility and status, artists often depicted religious figures wearing them.
The Bible is full of references about receiving a crown, especially in relation to longsuffering and battles won.
While we may not think of the Christmas wreath as a crown, it too is said to symbolize eternity, infinite love, and in the case of a holly wreath, Christ’s crown of thorns.
Christmas Symbols and Crowns
Perhaps traditional wreaths have endured as a symbol of Christmas because of the paradox.
Instead of a symbol representing wealth or even pain, a wreath is a life-giving reminder of how Perfect Love conquered death.
A wreath on a door may be an invitation for Jesus to enter or a sort of welcome to a triumphant Christmas spirit awaiting within.
Not So Serious Crowns
Crowns have a playful side too. Brits traditionally wear tissue ones at Christmas dinner since they come in those sweet Christmas crackers.
Children around the globe feel special donning crowns as well even before they understand the historical significance or implications.
Sparkly crowns came into my world in a fresh way when my tiara-loving nieces became fixtures in my life. What a fun collection it has been my pleasure to help them build!
For me personally, there is just so much loveliness to embrace within the symbol of a crown.
The unending circle of perfect love, the hope that death will not have the final word, the victory of peace coming to a weary world, and the nobility of the human spirit.
Rediscover Crowns & Circular Symbols
Take a moment to gaze around your home this very moment. I bet there are numerous circular shapes in your surroundings about which you may not typically give much thought.
Rings on your fingers, circular mirrors, and even a round dining table are symbolic sources of subtle positive energy and reminders of an unending, infinite, flowing circle of love.
Wherever this post finds you, my hope is you will look a bit closer at the holiday trappings surfacing in the coming weeks, pondering their historical significance.
While it’s true, Christmas bloomed into an enormous economic enterprise upon which the American economy depends, there are still meaningful historical symbols shimmering in plain sight, waiting for our attentive hearts.
Royally Comfy Wintry Things
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Peace to you right where you are.
-michele
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