HERBAL CHRISTMAS

It’s time to gather the family to decorate for Christmas!  Want to add the fresh scent of herbs to your home to welcome friends and family?  Here are a few ways to add herbs to your home this year.

 

• Centerpieces

-      Yule log with symbolic herbs

-     use fresh cranberries plus water in glass vase with flowers and herbs

-      use dried orange and apple slices and herbs and a large pillar candle

-      glass bowl  filled with ice cold water and float herb leaves such
as sage, basil and thyme with a few flower heads

-      make Advent wreath with symbolic herbs

-      bowl of fruit (oranges, lemons or limes) studded with cloves and rolled in mixed spices

-      decorate a gingerbread house using herbs for trees, wreaths even bay leaf shingles on the roof!

 

• Place Cards

-     fill tiny clay pots with herbs and berries

-      cinnamon sticks wrapped with raffia with dried herbs and berries

 

• Platters

-        place a neutral colored platter on the bottom and arrange herbs and flower tops on it, then immediately place a see-through platter on top of this one.

 

• Napkins

-       tie raffia or ribbon around napkins and tuck in sprigs of fresh rosemary.

-      make a small herbal bouquet, fasten it with an elastic band and tie the bouquet to the napkin ring or directly to the napkin with a ribbon in a bow.

 

 

• Wreaths

-        wired clusters of culinary herbs such as thyme, sage, basil & oregano flowers, bay leaves and mint onto straw bases to make culinary herb wreaths

-      mini bay wreath to decorate the tree

 

• Garlands

-        dried fruit slices, bay leaves and cinnamon sticks strung on wire and draped across cabinets, windows or mantle

-      suspend bunches of fresh dried herbs (sage, thyme, marjoram, oregano, rosemary) from twine and drape

 

• Fireplace

-        old bunches of herbs (rosemary, thyme, lavender, southernwood and scented geraniums) can be placed on the dying embers near the edge for fragrance

 

• Simmer a selection of whole spices to make the house smell great!

 

 

 

“For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;

And the government will rest on His shoulders;

And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor,
Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.”

Isaiah 9:6