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Have Yourself a Very Vintage Christmas How well do you know your holiday decorations by decade?
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Crafting Christmas Impress your guests and get the kids involved with two hot new books this season
My Christmas Tree, My Way A personalized, themed tree is an easy way to think outside the decorations box this year
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The Gingerbread Queen Johanna Rosson threw down with Bobby Flay to earn her crown as gingerbread queen
Setting the (Mini) Scene New iterations of the classic miniature Christmas village add a personal touch
A Shelf for the Season Gather your family by the fireside and read these classic holiday tales
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Instead, garland and cardboard ornaments filled the branches, and homemade villages took the place of presents Retro style is back in full force, but how well do you know your under the tree. holiday decorations by decade? For any curious decorator looking to create a 20s holiday theme, Waggoner suggests starting with the colonial elements like framed silhouettes and postcards. As for the use of color, the 20s focused primarily on red, says Waggoner. Green was more of an accent than anything, while other colors were kept subdued. By contrast, the 50s were all about bright, statement-making color explosions. “For the first time, the public was offered ornaments in pink and aqua,” says Travis Smith, author of Kitschmasland!: Christmas Décor from the 1950s to the 1970s (Schiffer Publishing, 2008). Silver-colored aluminum Christmas Travis Smith trees were also sprucing up the room, Silver-colored aluminum trees and bright, splashy colors were and light was becoming a prominent typical of a 50s Christmas. household staple. “In the 20s, anyone with electricity By LINDSEY ROMAIN | CTW Features “To me, the big dividing line between would have had to plug their tree into those two decades was World War II,” ostalgia is in vogue and the ceiling light fixture, but in the 50s Waggoner says. “It became way more nothing embodies nostaleveryone had electricity and it became gia like the holiday season. flashy after the war.” more about outdoing your neighbor,” Indeed, 1920s décor placed a heavy But what exactly constiWaggoner says. tutes a vintage Christmas? And, with all influence on the idea of gathering togethBlown-glass ornaments gained popuof this familiar influence, how well does er near an open fire, as demonstrated by larity in the 50s, as well as ornaments Christmas cards from the time. anyone really know the eras from that looked “atomic.” whence they came? “It’s amazing to me how many cards A quick flip through Susan Waghad the fireplace as the focus and the tree to the side,” Waggoner says. “Every goner’s book “Have Yourself a Very Vintage Christmas: Crafts, Decorating home had a fireplace and a mantel, and that was really more important than the Tips and Recipes, 1920s-1960s” tree. The fire was the source of warmth, (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2011) is a the social center.” reminder that the idea of vintage can Trees still had a presence, but without get lost in its respective decade. Perelectricity, they relied more on sheer volhaps the two most distinguishable ume than glittering spectacle. decades in American Christmas style “And I don’t think people actually were the 1920s and the 1950s. used candles as a source of light,” says The 20s were about family, warmth Waggoner, noting the flammability and tradition, the 50s about adapting would have turned most people away to the suburban lifestyle and utilizing new technology. from that as an option.
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“You also saw the emergence of plastic, which was a relatively new material,” Smith says. Suddenly, plastic light-up Santas and reindeer dotted lawns and living rooms, and imitation candles lined windowsills. The bold palette of 50s design makes it a more popular look today, and online venues like eBay have become prime markets for those recreating vintage holiday looks. Waggoner, however, likes the challenge of the more traditional 20s theme, which can be recreated without tracking down pricey items in antique stores or online. “Use some Stickles Glitter Glue and trace the lines of old postcards,” she suggests for a 20s Christmas craft. “Get the kids involved; homemade cellophane wreaths are an easy project to work on with them.” Regardless of the era, a vintage Christmas is all about the spirit at the center of the holiday. “Vintage is popular again because it evokes a nostalgia for simpler, more innocent times — when the world ran at a slower pace, and when holiday celebrations revolved around family and not having the latest gadget,” Smith says. “For me, Christmas is just a time to look back and think, ‘Gosh, my life was so much easier,’” Waggoner says. “But there’s also something about old art that’s lush, wonderful and detailed.”
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very year, holiday lighting manufacturers introduce more varieties of bulbs, strands, colors and accessories. Luckily for the seasonal lighting industry (and those who love cruising the neighborhood, looking at lit-up houses), nobody seems to be willing to forego Christmas
lights altogether, no matter their financial woes. Professional decorators say that there’s a trend towards nostalgic, natural-looking decorations rather than the energy-guzzling displays of the past. That means that LEDs are getting more popular and the Las Vegas marquee-
style house is going extinct. The variety of products available leaves people at a loss when choosing the right lights for the job, so a few lighting professionals have given their tips on lighting each area of the house.
Front Yard Trees Lit trees in a front yard draw the most attention to a house, says Brandon Stephens, vice president of marketing at Christmas Décor in Lubbock, Texas. Lights on a door or across the roof lining act as a backdrop. If you light a tree, that’s the thing that stops traffic, Stephens says. Using a lot of lights sets a property apart. Since a large tree requires plenty of light, use mini-LED strands. LED lights save energy and thus electricity costs, so they work well for massive outdoor undertakings. To make the tree look full, string the lights through the branches rather than around the outside, says Ric Robertson at lighting service Holiday Lighting Guy in Beverly Hills, Calif. “We don’t want to have to go around the tree and tangle it and make it look like the tree is choked,” he says. Divide the tree into sections and then work from the top to the bottom,
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INDOOR Spaces Take a look at where the electrical outlets are, says Bob Pranga, owner of holiday design company Dr. Christmas in Los Angeles. Wandering cords will diminish the look and present a potential hazard. Then determine the focal point of the room, he says. Any lighting should complement it. For example, a foyer with a fantastic chandelier should keep the chandelier as the focus, Pranga says. Lighting should be set up symmetrically around it. “Do something even and outline the existing architecture,” he says. “That makes it feel warm.” Indoor lighting acts more as an accessory to other holiday decorations than as the primary attraction, Pranga says. He suggests combining some sort of greenery with the lights, such as garlands or wreaths, to hide the cords. “Just stringing up lights in your house, unless you really want that frat house look, doesn’t give it much charm,” he says. “You end up scotch taping them to the walls.” While LED lights save power for complex outdoor displays, they tend to look too harsh for indoors, Pranga says. “They make your room look like a black light palace." Use incandescent lights instead for a warm and cozy ambiance.
Christmas Tree Similar to decorating an outdoor tree, wrap lights through branches rather than around the Christmas tree to add a nice depth, says Carolyn Horten, owner of design group Christmas Holiday Specialists in southern California. Use the same tactic of dividing the tree into three triangle sections and working from the top down. The method not only makes the tree look full, it helps with damage control, she says. “It’s really easy to control blow-outs that way,” Horten says. To prevent fuse blow-outs all together, don’t use more than three or four strands, and run an extension cord along the trunk, she says. Use a remote-powered or step-on-step-off power strip at the bottom to simplify turning the tree lights on and off. Horten recommends using strands with 100 lights per foot. “It just adds a really nice ambiance,” she says. But don’t be afraid to accent the tree with a unique light size or color, using mini-lights further into the tree. Traditional trees with lots of sentimental ornaments that range in color will pop with a mix of clear and colored lights. “You can definitely mix up the lights,” Horten says. “It sounds weird. But it looks nice.”
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ohanna Rosson’s decorating skills are sweet. Rosson designs and builds gingerbread houses — and she’s been head architect for some of the best. In 2005, she appeared on Food Network’s “Paula’s Home Cooking.” After that, she was commissioned to make a special replica of a Springfield, Ill., train depot to be displayed at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum. All this exposure attracted the attention of Bobby Flay, who (unwisely) decided to challenge her to a gingerbread battle on Food Network’s “Throwdown with Bobby Flay.” Needless to say, the gingerbread queen held on to her crown. In a typical year, construction season for Rosson begins around midsummer, when many of the magazines she works with are completing their holiday issues. “Whenever I make the first gingerbread house of the season, it just brings me back to life,” Rosson says. “I actually listen to Christmas music to get myself into it. Last year, when I was working on a house, my air conditioning went out — and it was more than 100 degrees outside!” Her busiest season has seen her build about 50 houses. “There was an eightyear period where I didn’t sleep at all during the fall,” says Rosson, who works in marketing at Fort Hood, Texas, where her family is stationed. Rosson’s culinary foundation was laid early on, as she was growing up in Illinois. “I’ve always baked. I baked with
my grandmother and my mother. It was a part of at least every week — almost daily,” she says. She married at 19 and her husband, Steve, immediately entered the military. With that, she began moving about with the Army officer. He is currently serving in Afghanistan. Wherever Rosson was stationed, she would take baking classes, whether it was Arizona, California or more exotic locales. Rosson spent some time in Germany in the early 1990s, where she became enamored with the gingerbread houses displayed in bakery windows. “I was fascinated with them. I wanted to know how to make them,” she says. She cracked open a book on gingerbread houses, tried a few recipes and started to build a reputation. “I started kicking up my creations. I started donating the houses for military fundraisers,” she says. “I knew that people would be buying raffle tickets for them. I wanted them to be worth donating money to.” Rosson cultivated a specialty in replicas of famous and historical structures. Her first was a 2005 recreation of the Richmond Hill, Ga., mansion of Henry Ford that was displayed at a retirement village. As a contributing writer for Cooking with Paula Deen magazine, she has also rendered the Southern celebrity chef ’s home in gingerbread. Her favorite creation? That was the train depot for display at the Lincoln library. Rosson put about 400 hours into it: a labor of love. “I’m an Illinois girl. I love me some
Abraham Lincoln. It was a huge honor for me,” she says. “We’re a patriotic family, anyway.” Family members frequently lend a hand to Rosson’s projects. Her father designed a special foundation board to facilitate the building of the Lincoln depot structure. Her mother has looked after her children while she completed high-profile jobs. Her oldest son, 13-year-old Joshua, crushed up candy to make coal for the depot replica. All of Rosson’s kids (besides Joshua, there’s also Scott, 11, and William, 8) are naturals at gingerbread building. Each creates an individual house each holiday season. “I think for the longest time, they thought every mom did it. That was normal to them. They didn’t think it was that big of a deal until I was on Bobby Flay,” she remembers. That 2007 “Throwdown” episode saw judges declare her gingerbread recreation of Abraham Lincoln’s Springfield,
Ill., home superior to Flay’s Empire State Building replica. In recent years, Rosson scaled back the number of houses she produces annually to about 20, mostly for fundraisers. She says she’s careful that it doesn’t engulf her holiday celebrations and family time. Nowadays, “I put off all gingerbread making to around the first week in December,” she says. “For so many people, it kind of takes over your whole holiday. I don’t want to be stressed out over the holiday.” Even the Gingerbread Queen herself admits, “You can’t let gingerbread get in the way.”
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Use the opportunity to teach other lessons as well, says Suzanne Kanaly, 2008 winner of the National Gingerbread House Competition hosted by The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa in Asheville, N.C. Her boys started on houses when they were about four years old. “What better way to teach your kids math at an early age?” Kanaly says. “Why not get them involved right from the beginning? It teaches them how to count and how to do fractions: a half cup of this, a quarter cup of that.” She also suggests having children keep an eye out for candy and other items with which to decorate. “It could be pasta shapes or cereal.You can teach them shapes at the same time,” Kanaly says.
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ulling together a themed Pranga suggests choosing decoraChristmas tree puts a person- tions as if casting a movie; start with a al touch on holiday decoratstar ornament. “Theming your tree ing, and it doesn’t have to be a comes down to your focal point, your stressful task. main thing, your star,” he says. “Then “You can theme a tree basically your co-star and your next favorite with one item,” says Bob Pranga, ornament; then feature players; and celebrity stylist and owner of Dr. extras are basic round balls.” One benefit of themed Christmas Christmas in Los Angeles. trees is that most people already have “If you do a beautiful red tree, the the items that can serve as ornaments, minute you put a picture of Judy Garespecially if that theme is a hobby. land, or something symbolic of ‘The Other themed items can be purWizard of Oz,’ all of a sudden it chased inexpensively. Mix those with becomes a Wizard of Oz tree,” Pranga traditional ornaments, says Sarah says. In the same manner, a soccer ball Schlegel, decorating coordinator at in the middle of a tree immediately Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland givesShayne it a sports– theme, he says. Proof – hGG 1 & 2 of 4 – Color.PDf 1115 GGMin Frankenmuth, Mich. The store has 47.44087.hGG.1117.hPh.SJB
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Paula Deen:
Down Home for the Holidays By CATHY CASSATA | CTW Features
The queen of Southern cuisine discusses her signature design style and Christmastime at her house
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he’s got it all — a TV show, restaurants, cookbooks and product lines. Whatever Paula Deen dishes out, she does it with that down-home style unique to only her. We caught up with Deen to chat about her plans for the holidays and how she brings her signature style to seasonal décor.
Although her brand has expanded to encompass many products, food is still at the center of Deen’s universe. This is apparent from the way she talks about Christmas dinner at her house. Thirty of her closest family members and friends share an enormous home-cooked meal, which features beef, ham, turkey and side dishes galore. Dessert includes ambrosia with
cream sauce, coconut cake, red velvet cake and Japanese fruit cake. “As a kid, I knew when that Japanese fruit cake showed up on the counter, Santa Claus wasn’t far behind,” Deen says. “My grandmother and mother always made one on Christmas Eve.” Coconut cake is her favorite. “I put fresh holly and red berries on it, and it just screams Christmas.”
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Like her design style, Paul Deen strives to make the holidays at her home warm, cozy and meaningful. Here, Deen and her sons Bobby and Jamie present a classic Thanksgiving meal.
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you walk into a room. It’s homey, yet elegant, and each piece has style, value and is affordable.” Some furniture pieces are inspired by Deen’s own furniture, and some are named after family members. But Deen’s favorite piece is the Bag Lady’s Cabinet from the line’s first series. “I love utilitarian things. Other than just being pretty, I like for them to have a purpose,” she says. “This particular piece has a glass top and drawers underneath, and can be useful in any room.” Comfort, family and purpose are three themes that describe her furniture — and her holiday entertaining style. The “purpose” part is particularly important during Christmas. While Deen says she loves the holiday, she doesn’t like the hectic feeling of choosing the right gifts for everyone. To her, the meaning of Christmas is giving back to those less fortunate. Last year, Deen’s family and friends began giving gifts to needy families rather than each other. They even personally delivered the gifts on Christmas Eve. “It reminded us all what Christmas is really about,” she says. “I can’t wait to do it again.”
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Her Southern style extends to the decorations in her home, which are as charming as the food. A 15-foot fake tree stands in her living room while three real trees decorate her bedroom, kitchen foyer and game room. “It’s so much fun pulling out my ornaments each year,” Deen says. “My favorites are the ones of my kids from when they were little.” Deen is a big fan of natural decorations that can tickle more than one of the senses. “We pull most of the things we use out of the yard, and I love using real food to decorate the mantel,” she says. Her must-have decoration is a homemade apple tree. “You can buy little wooden trees with nails sticking out to place the apples on, then you put greenery in between all the apples and a pineapple on top. It’s gorgeous and real and smells absolutely amazing.” Deen brought her design sensibilities to her own line of furniture from Universal Furniture: the Paula Deen Home Collection. She recently added 42 pieces to the original 50-piece collection. “My furniture screams, ‘Y’all come on in and get comfortable,’” she says. “It wraps its arms around you when
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Whimsical Kissing Balls Adapted with permission from pauladeen.com, Photo by Chia Chong
These imaginative updates of Victorian kissing balls make perfect Christmas ornaments for your home. The handmade kissing balls are easy to make and a fun, quick project that you can do with your children. A Brief History of Kissing Balls Prototypes of kissing balls were made in England during the Middle Ages of evergreen branches entwined into a rough globe shape. A small clay figure of the baby Jesus was nestled in the center of the sprigs of greenery. The “holy boughs,” as they were called, were hung from the ceiling to render blessings and good luck to all who passed under them. During the reign of Queen Victoria, variations of our modern traditions became popular, such as the Christmas tree and the concept of the kissing ball. Potatoes or apples were used as decorations, with sprigs of evergreen, holly, herbs and flowers wrapped around and tied with a pretty ribbon. The herbs, flowers and plants had symbolic meanings to Victorians, and one could personalize the kissing ball according to the message of love, affection, loyalty, peace and more. Paula Deen and her test kitchen have modernized kissing balls with nuts and candies of the season, to bring color and cheer to your holiday home.
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Don’t let ugly holiday sweaters hide in your closet all year — upcycle them for beautiful sweater crafts
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or snags that make them irreparable,” says Heather Thoming, who runs oliday sweaters have WhipperBerry, a blog where she posts become something of a crafts and other creative project ideas. kitschy novelty in recent “Why not repurpose them to make an years, with ugly Christmas accessory for your wardrobe or other sweater parties frequenting holiday calfun craft projects?” endars. Luckily, ugly sweater parties The easy answer is to grab a needle aren’t the only way to get extended use and thread (or sewing machine) and turn these sweaters into quilts or pillowcases, from these Christmas gift staples. “We all have a pile of sweaters in our but a little extra time and creativity can closets that are outdated or have stains go a long way. Yarn from old sweaters
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Sweater flowers, right, are an easy way to repurpose sweater material.The instructions (photos above, text on opposite page) are simple and possibilities are endless.
is an easy workable material. It can be deconstructed and saved for future use or turned into felt and transformed into a brand new holiday decoration. The Longest Yarn The first step is to properly deconstruct a sweater. If the goal is to simply preserve the yarn for later, start with the seams. “The key is to rip seams and not the yarn that was actually used in the knitted fabric,” says Jared Flood, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based knitwear designer, author and creator of Brooklyn Tweed, a blog that features his patterns and designs. “It’s best to use a seam ripper and good light. Any rips in the yarn will mean your yarn will have that many breaks in it when you unravel each piece.” Avoid collar areas covered in seams to prevent complication and frustration. “I just cut a piece on the row below the neck opening and leave those few inches as waste,” Flood says. He then suggests winding the deconstructed yarn around the back of a chair or a yarn swift to get the kinks out. Soak it in warm water, then dry it with weights on the end to keep it straight.
It Felt Right Try “felting” the yarn. This is a simple process, and sometimes one that occurs by accident when sweaters are machinewashed in hot water. “Felting basically means that the sweater shrinks in hot water and the fibers become more tightly connected,” says Hester Burch, creator of Fun In the Making, a craft-inspiration blog. “This felted wool is then great to use in craft projects because the edges do not fray.” Reduce, Reuse, Upcycle Save preserved yarn for later, or cut felted yarn into holiday shapes that can be used for Christmas tree ornaments, as Burch instructs on her blog with a polar bear ornament. She suggests drawing or printing a stencil and using a fine-point washable marker to trace it. Add embellishments as desired, like beads for eyes or thread-embroidered smiles and features. Thoming suggests making sweater flowers, which can be used as embellishments on sweater decoration projects or even as personal accessories (see below for instructions).
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unique and inexpensive holiday centerpiece can be as easy as putting all your eggs in a basket, so to speak. Baskets are useful as both organizational and decorative accessories. In December, when embellished with holiday staples such as fresh fruits, gift tags, ribbon, evergreens, firewood or presents, they also can double as centerpieces for living rooms and dining rooms. “The beauty of baskets is that once you decorate them, they give you a lovely holiday feel,” says Flora Brown, a professional gift basket decorator from Anaheim, Calif. “In some cases, you don’t even need a tree, because you can build a large basket as tall as you want.”
Shirley George Frazier, author of The Gift Basket Design Book (Globe Pequot, 2008), says that decorative baskets are often used as gifts and have stood the test of time. Their appeal is their simplicity. To create a decorative basket, Frazier suggests starting with a basket of any color and size with a sturdy wood frame. The basket should be smooth on all sides as well as on the bottom and the handle. When placed on the floor, a well-made basket sits flat and doesn’t wobble, she adds. A few coats of spray paint can give it some holiday color. Brown says that the most important tip is to fill the basket so that whatever sits inside is raised high and
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