Christmas has come to an end. But we don’t have to banish al the glitter and light from our homes just when we need it most. Here’s 5 reasons why it’s absolutely ok to keep your fairy lights up all winter.
It’s natural to crave light. Why deny yourself this simple pleasure? There’s a sense of joy and hopefulness in a string of fairy lights, whatever the time of year.
Dull corner of your home? Fill it with fairy lights. Or more specifically, jam jars and vases full of battery-powered lights. These cheery pools of light will warm up even the dreariest room.
Create a little ritual. Christmas is full of these – coming home and switching on your tree lights is such a soothing thing. You might not have your tree anymore, but you can still continue this ritual in January. Get home, and switch on your strings of fairy lights straight away – it’s balm for the soul on dark winter days.
Twinkly white lights perfectly compliment the freshness of green shoots, indoor bulbs and fresh new flowers. Arrange fairy lights behind a vase of flowers to make it glow.
And finally, because it’s the perfect way to start the year as you mean to go on. Don’t be apologetic or try to please others. Put two fingers up at Winter. If you want to keep up your fairy lights until Spring, then do it.
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Clearly you fall into the Christmas Fairy category, like me, as opposed to Christmas Grinch, like my husband. My favourite (of many many) set of fairy lights is now in a glass vase on the shelf, bringing a little bit of festive magic to January. …and to Feb, and to March….
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A very festive and very happy new year to you!
Yep, I’m definitely more a fairy than a grinch!
Love this! We put white fairy lights up around our hall a couple of Christmases ago and never took them down because we liked them so much. Unfortunately, this has meant that Christmas just gone we felt the need to jazz it up a bit more, so we wound coloured fairy lights in-between our spindles and all along the handrail. Again, we loved the look that much we left them up post-festivities as well. I wonder how long it will be before we become desensitized to these too and need more lights? How many lights are too many?