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A Perfect Holiday Theme

The soft gentle action of multi-colored bubble lights add a nostalgic dimension to your tree trimmings.

The "skinny" Santa Claus decorations are a delight to young and old as they pass your home on the way to visit friends or a church or town
get-together.

A truly entrancing torte filled to overfilling with fruit flavors and decorated with breathtaking edible flowers.

Fruitcakes, dense and moist, sliced and arrayed on a platter adorned with holly and pine cones.

The above - a mixture of modern and old-fashioned. The Holidays - a collage of past childhood items and new found trimmings.

We all have our own style of decorating - there is a touch of maple wood, and glass and metal in all of us. We grow each day, we mature and we are surrounded by new sensations, discoveries, and baubles. What is the perfect Holiday decor for your home - the perfect meal or decorative touches for all those parties and dinners?

Simply - a melodious harmony of what you would like to remember from your childhood (tinsel, sleds, one-piece snow suits) and what today's world has evolved into.

Tree ornaments add sparkle, and interest to your Christmas tree. There are ornaments you saved from your children's first attempts at art, to those magnificent sculptured delicate glass ornaments that reflect the tiny multi-
colored lights strung on a tree, or even "talking" Santas, snowmen and Mr. Spock. They are caressed by popcorn or cranberry garlands, and that beloved angel right there on top. Underneath, a shiny Santa Express train on a lovely hand-quilted tree skirt, with a lighted Sinclair Gas sign that sheds its light on that feisty Camaro filling up at the pump. Mix and match to your heart's delight, and to the pleasure of family members.

There are no directions or explicit requirements to decorate for the Holidays. The decor of choice - what warms your heart, and puts that gleam in your eye. Its remembering your child's first Christmas and seeing it now through a young adult's eyes, as they add their opinion and touch to your scheme of things. Its a pleasure to the decorator and the observer. The Holidays is using grandma's treasures crocheted tablecover and also that etched candle that emits fragrances with each breath as well as that doormat that starts singing Christmas Carols as soon as someone nears your door.

Your home decor should take your breath away as you light the tree for the first time, cut into a juicy, moist turkey, and even enjoy that salsa with the chips and crackers.

The Holidays are a scrapbook that looks back into the past but invites the future to join and to inscribe the current pages.

Its time to return to the basics in your Holiday entertaining and festivities. The basics of fun, friendliness, inspiration, nostalgia, hope, and love. It's holding hands and singing Christmas songs as a gliding sleigh carries you to a warm bonfire where hot chocolate and hot cider await.

But it is also pizza, space creatures that talk and walk, and a tie with lights that flash.

We should never become too set in our ways to forget the past nor too sure of ourselves not to look at the future. The Holidays - the perfect time and place to be who we are and to display our heritage and ancestry, as well as our goals and our visions. These are times to kiss under the mistletoe and watch the latest DVD with your family.

The Holidays - the best of all our worlds joined together for all to enjoy and partake - you can't go wrong with this combination.

By Arleen M. Kaptur

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