I love the color red.

Red* is:

• enticing
• life-sustaining
• the “good life”
• elegant
• cultivated
• refined
• connected to the earth
• country
• warmth
• exotic

*taken from “Color:  Messages and Meanings” by Leatrice Eiseman

Christmas is the perfect time to play up the red tones.  I like to use various shades of red in different textures throughout my Christmas tree by…

• tying ornaments on the tree with red ribbon.
• lighting the tree with ONLY red lights.
• alternating shiny, sparkly and dull red ornaments.
• attaching sprigs of red berries to tree limbs.
• nesting red bird ornaments in the tree.

May your Christmas be filled with all things delightfully red.