Holiday Decorations Turn Into Christmas Decorations.

Holly, with its dark green spiky leaves and red berries, was also believed to have magical powers and the ability to drive demons away. Germans considered holly to be a good luck charm against the hostile forces of nature. A Shropshire custom was to leave the holly and ivy up until Candlemas, while the mistletoes were preserved until the next holiday season and hung so that good fortune would follow till the next holiday season. In the early days food was also central to the holiday decorations. As the Christmas season grew near huge batches of cookies, candies, and sugared fruits were prepared for food and as Christmas Decorations. As mentioned above not all the early Christmas decorations in the home came from the kitchen, the woods and fields provided an abundance of straw, pods, flowers, and foliage for Christmas Decorations also. Select to view our Christmas wreaths, garlands, Christmas greenery and Christmas ribbon. 

History of Christmas Decorating:

As far back as the fifteenth century, Stow's of London noted that the custom at Christmas was that every household, parish and church be decked with items of ivy, holm, bays and other affordable seasonal greens. Many elders of England will recall the old English mode of church decor of sprigs of holly and yew stuck into the high pews making the churches a miniature forest. Christmas decor extended outside when the city light poles and standards in London were decorated for the Christmas season. The Christmas trimming evolved next into trimmings of beads, knots of Unique Christmas Ribbon, paper stars and lace bags filled with candies were all homemade by hand. Nuts, seeds, berries, popcorn and other homemade materials civilized the wild beauty of the past. The stringing of popcorn and cranberries for Decorated Country Holiday Garland are still in use today and purchased in the Christmas store. Tree decor was now open to creative and inspirational holiday decorating ideas that are still with us today.

History of Mistletoe: