I go way overboard. I made ornaments and decorations every year for most of my life. . The skirt around the bottom has cross stitch squares for each member of the family, and more are added each year, as necessary.
I have a lighted two foot candy cane and a lighted wreath. I lined the edges of the room with a six inch wide ribbon of refraction paper and then taped lights all around the top of the room.
I put out the Holiday vases I made, with winter-type silk flowers in them. I have my village set up in the hall this year, because I’m having 10 people for dinner tomorrow. I bought three six inch stars made from some kind of shiny plastic that are lined up in front of my large screen TV, on a layer of cotton, along with a little cotton bear my son made when he was a boy. I also have a cardboard reindeer he made once.
My little grandsons have talked me into letting them open a present every night they were here, so I wrapped up some stuff I bought at dollar tree, some window clings, some winter hats and gloves, and two cocoa cups with packages of cocoa in them.
The refrigerator is full of pictures I printed out and they colored with some glitter markers I bought. There is a Christmas towel hanging on the stove and a giant stocking hanging on the cabinet. I have draped a tinsel rope over the TV cabinet and hung a lighted Santa Sleigh on it.
For Solstice night, we covered a table with aluminum foil and placed every kind of candle I have, about 20 and turned off all the lights.
There’s probably some stuff I left out, but I have to get the table ready for tomorrow