Christmas Ideas That Wow You - Part 1

Wow! I found myself in a Christmas wonderlandon the bottom shelf of a baker's rack, in the
when I visited my brother and his wife thiscorner of the living room. Surrounded by a few
holiday season. My sister in law had so manygreen, gold, and multi-colored foil curly bows on 4
areas of decorations that I felt like I was visitingred foil different sized jewelry boxes, like ring,
one of Santa's helpers. Their house looked sowatch and bracelet. They look like small Christmas
festive and colorful, yet the cost of cheerfulpresent scattered around the shelf that the
areas was not equal to the beauty that I foundsnowmen are sitting.
myself surrounded by. I asked if she minded if IOn the shelf above the fiber optic snowmen on
used some of her ideas and shared them withthe baker's rack, are water globes with snowmen
my readers. She actually looked very pleased andinside, each one a different size. The unique and
proud that I recognized all of her hard work.easy my sister-in-law made those snowmen
As I looked around, I found so many differentcome alive with color was to add shiny colored
areas of grouped decorations, that I found myselfglass ornaments around the bases of each snow
wandering through the house to look atglobe. There is string of mini-snowmen hanging
everything and checking out how she had putacross the top, from one side of the shelf to the
together each group. My sister-in-law's favoriteother. They are suspended like the reindeer
collectibles are snowmen, but she has a greatacross the city street was in Yes, Virginia, there
assortment of other things, too, like angels andis a Santa Claus". The slight upward arc of the
churches, the things that have particularstrand of little snowmen heads brings your eyes
symbolism for Christmas.right to the collection with all the shiny colored
Right now I am looking at one of the collectionsballs.
of snowmen that have fiber optic lights. They sit