Our Holiday Colors

Our authors are sharing what color specifically has holiday meaning for them–and why! We hope you enjoy these personal snips of our lives. Wishing every one of you a blessed holiday season!

Nancy J Cohen: My favorite holiday color is red. You’ll see me wearing red at any time of the year, but this season offers occasions to be glitzier. I like vivid colors and red goes well with my dark brown hair and tanned skin tone. It brings to mind the actress Catherine Zeta-Jones who looks stunning in a red dress. I liked her best in the movie musical, Chicago. Red is always festive and is also a power color to wear, projecting warmth and approach-ability along with confidence. Let the season be bright!

Lois Winston: I spent much of my professional life as a designer, which meant Christmas was pretty much year-round for me. I’ve created pieces in every color scheme imaginable. However, for my own home, I’ve always been partial to rustic hues for their winter warmth during the holidays. Am I able to pick one specific color? Asking a designer to do that is like asking a parent to choose her favorite child. The photo depicts two holiday decorations I purchased at our local botanical garden gift shop last year.

Cheryl Hollon: Burgundy is my choice for a favorite Holiday color. Its deep, warm hue exudes elegance and timelessness. I’ve been using it in my decorations for more than twenty years. It is beautifully paired with traditional Christmas greens for a classic look or can be combined easily with gold, silver, or white. The color also evokes feelings of warmth and comfort, reminiscent of mulled wine or crackling fires. To me, burgundy complements the joy and magic of the season beautifully.

Diane AS Stuckart: Silver is one of my favorite holiday colors. It recalls the more subtle memories of the Christmas season…carols like “Silver Bells”; my aunt and uncle’s aluminum tree lighted by a rotating wheel of colors; the glitter of stars in a crisp night sky shining over our family on the way to midnight Mass. And who can forget the silver tinsel that started out sleek and straight on the tree but by holiday’s end was scattered in a crinkled mess all over the house. May your days be merry and bright this season!

Maggie Toussaint: Primary red is my favorite holiday color. It’s one of my year-round favorite colors as it is flattering to those of us with pale complexions. I love red bows, red poinsettias, and red reflective decorations of the holidays. Red is also known to stimulate energy, so no wonder I like it! Did you know red is the first color babies see after black and white? Red is the color of our heart and is also known as the color of love. Wishing love and light to all!

Terry  Ambrose: My favorite holiday color is green. The deeper and darker the color, the better. Think gorgeous Christmas trees on a hillside, just like those shown here. I never realized it before, but the color green is beneficial to clear thinking, relationships, and physical health. It’s also thought to relieve stress and promote healing. In a way, it also seems to reflect my own feelings of compassion, kindness, and sympathy. I’m all about harmony, tranquility, and peace—and green just seems to embody those qualities as welll.

Debra H Goldstein: My favorite holiday color is the blue often associated with Chanukah decorations. Seeing it brings me comfort and peace, which biblical research actually supports.  The first interpretation of the blue is tied to a Bible story that explained the Israelites were told to dye a single thread in their tallitot (prayer shawls) with a blue dye made from sea snails as a remembrance of the commandments of the Lord. At the time of the story, the snail color would have been popular as both a status symbol and to demonstrate the importance of the prayer shawls. Over the ages, the blue stripe, although lightened from its original shade, is still used for tallit, but also has been incorporated into the Israeli flag and Chanukah decorations. Additional interpretations define the blue as representing the sky which reflects God’s creations or by the word’s own limitations of meaning serenity, loyalty, and trust that translate to peace and harmony. Hence, the blue holiday color brings me back to the feelings it stirs in me.

If you have a color that puts you in a holiday mood, we’d love to hear from you!

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