All pictures today are mine (except the Outlander at the end) but main and those outside the featured areas are assorted shops and wanderings about Lake Mary in the state of Florida.
We’ll look at Christmas words this week…..and some of my weird decorating ideas that you might like…or not I put décor on everything—it makes me happy and Holidays are a time for happy right?
Lovely weekend—Sat. spent the day getting a massage and then to Lake Mary for the outdoors market and lunch at my favorite Tea Shop:
Royals English Tea Room
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Then joined a friend to enjoy Cheesecake and a Jazz Trio with two lovely ladies of the church–one the minister’s wife singing Christmas songs…a lovely evening.
The best of healers is good cheer. Pindar
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This is one of my simple ideas…Just a couple of heavier paper pieces I have bought along the ages of the holidays—on the door (in my laundry room ).
I thought as stated before that I was looking at words of our Holidays and the first one that came to mind was
CHEER
often combined with GOOD
First cheer can be a verb:
To shout encouragements—like praising and encouraging a team from the sidelines…To cheer on a team for instance
To encourage and give comfort and support….to cheer up someone that is down, to cheer on someone that is straining at a task all comes to my mind.
Cheer is also a noun: Shout of encouragement and support is a CHEER
and Cheerfulness is presenting a good and encouragement to those who are in despair.
I also think of the toast “Cheers” which is given when the egg nog, or drink at parties or smaller gatherings, is said in salute and encouragement to friends and others that gather about this time of year.
(I use plastic wreathes and I love present tags to spice up a door. The snow flakes are garlands….but I prefer to have them falling._
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. James Russell Lowell
(a bag for presents makes a nice adornment for my cabinet edge)
(Amy Grant In her song naming the season: It’s the most wonderful time of the year
Goes on to say:
With the kids jingle-belling
And everyone telling you
Be of good cheer
and then repeats
It’s the most wonderful time of the year.
So it’s a wonderful time which is reinforced by kids jingle-belling (don’t ask) and telling you to be of well you know.
(I like using stockings all over—not just above the fire place and I like hanging these about the house instead of about the tree….the snow flake is just a paper one I got somewhere…)
The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Here a door knob hanger clings to a cabinet nob…some more of that same tree garland…another Christmas bag and that’s a hand knit stocking ornament (thanks to my mum…I’m not that domestic)
A little racier and fun is a Blues classic by BB King which is about a man who brought Holiday Cheer and much more to the ladies he visits in “Back Door Santa” to quote the song: “while the men are out at play,” Now that sounds like a little different take on our cheer definition….or at least on the source of it.
In A Holly Jolly Christmas we’re encouraged to: Have a holly, jolly Christmas;
Cause:
It’s the best time of the year
the usual wish for the white stuff
I don’t know if there’ll be snow
but in case we don’t then we:
but have a cup of cheer
Dare I presume that’s not lemonade?
Ok we’ve got women, wine—or a bit harder stuff all in song…so we’ve reached the adult version of the holiday cheer.
(here I’ve continue with the wrap and added another of my mom-s ornaments–a snow man…there’ s a big metal ornament hanging from another cabinet knob. I filled the basket with some crispy fake greenery and added a tree bulb, a couple of those present cards and set a plastic snow flake on the front and setting between the present bag decorated pop corn popper and the basket—a stuffed polar bear in sun glasses and tropical–yet Christmas-type shirt.)
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(And then we use a dish already setting there…a little metal Christmas box, a silver bow and a gold tree ball for the tail…all watche over by a Santa and snowkid.)
In our day and age there’ s even a Good Cheer Web Site: http://www.beofgoodcheer.com/articles/history
This is from the site:
Be of Good Cheer dotcom is a private enterprise, based solely on a personal mission statement of Making Life Better.
The concept takes root in learning everything possible, and practicing every way possible, to make life better for everyone on whom we have any effect during every day.
Which obviously has gone far beyond Christmas. Which if they practice what they .com is a good thing.
(a close up on the basket)
(I also use Christmas boxes for pictures–sometimes flat like this)
So Christmas is a great time for Cheer what ever you believe and how ever you celebrate….that’s what I love about the holiday, it is about birth and new hope and love and understanding…it is the celebration of, if you are Christian then a savior and if you are not then a great prophet and wise man….who preached love, and doing good unto others who once said: In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Jesus
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Surely a goal we all should strive for to the best of our abilities….however we define overcoming the world in our own life and within our own beliefs.
(shelves over the washer a great place for foam material snow flakes with a nice picture — cut out–of Santa in background)
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. Mark Twain
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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(making shelves merry with fur balls another of my mom’s snowmen and another package name tag bringing up the bottom with cord already attached.)
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not? Salma Hayek
Using a old popcorn tin…a snowman figurine and another of those tags.,
Pine cones in an existing basket, another snowman figurine…package tag and a flat snowman ornament just hanging there.
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even floor decor 
deco bag for coat rack
A glass sticky in corner
That’s all folks