Have yourself a real homespun Christmas

Step away from tack, writes Kya deLongchamps, and embrace all things folk for a fairytale Christmas.

The multi-coloured blaze of modern Christmas decorations would all but take your eye out. Once the hour ticks over midnight to the Dec 26, the gaudy invaders look instantly dusty and faintly ridiculous. What about something truly seasonal?

Decorate to warm and illuminate the darker days of winter, (the Pagan inspiration for this time of feasting and gathered light), but with a gentle, muted, less synthetic finish.