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[matty liz]

Patriot3, thank you.  I love the tree up all year.  It is 5 feet narrow and I go with the season.

[nrm]

@Oznell Beautiful photos! Thank you 😊 

[Imaoldhippie]

They are all very pretty.  I especially like the pig in the wreath.  Very cute and made me smile.

[ciao_bella]

I decorate my fireplace mantel with a winter scene so that it can stay up well after Christmas and not be taken down until early March.  Here is a picture I took while I was decorating.  All the large and small candles are lit on a timer as well as the many tiny lights in the white birch trees.  The snow evergreens at the base also have tiny white fairy lights that light up at night.  

I found moose figurines (one standing, one sitting) that I loved, so bought them instead of using deer that you mostly see in winter decor.  If the picture is too small, you can enlarge it to see it better.  

[Oznell]

Thanks all for taking the time to describe such appealing and varied ways of dealing with the "post-holiday" scene.

By the way, I love that several people mentioned "birch" in their descriptions!

And, @ciao_bella ,  thanks for posting the picture of your wonderful mantel!   The overall feeling it gives me is of a luxe, cozy ski lodge.  You are right, it is so versatile, can last from before Christmas till long after.  Love all the light against the warm, rich brick, a welcome sight through the long winter...       

[shoptilyadropagain]

I do very little seasonal decorating except for Christmas.  Once the Christmas decorations come down, it's back to my normal decor for 11 months.  

Whle the above pictures are beautiful, the use of greenery, white candles, white lights, etc. still screams Christmas to me.  I know it might not to some but it does to me.

[CANDLEQUEEN]

My tree and Christmas decor is coming down tomorrow, and I always use lots of candles, throws and fairy lights, and hurricanes all winter long!!! I love the coziness of it all...

[Marsha2003]

I was slow to decorate for the holidays this year and I am slow to take things down.  I imagine I'll get to it this weekend.

My winter decor will be knitted throws, darker colored wool pillow covers and candles.  I have a long, velvet tablecloth for the dining room table, but I'm usually too lazy to get that out as it is heavy and unwieldy.

[GingerHead]

@Oznell 

All beautiful! I love the way she decorates, very clean and cozy. Her after Christmas decorations look a lot like my Christmas decorations. 

My Christmas decorations have evolved to be very natural and wintery (for the most part) with whites, neutrals, natural elements (greens and pinecones) and of course white lights and fairy lights. 

Usually, I take things down the next day but I'm enjoying my decorations so much this year that I'm very slow to take them down. Luckily, nothing that I have up really screams Christmas and has been kind of incorporated into my decor (I didn't have to move stuff around).

I'll probably take the ornaments off my trees and take down the more obvious Christmas decor and just keep my trees up with only the lights for a couple of more weeks. I'll take the ornaments out of my centerpiece Dough bowl and put in pinecones and moss.

I change things up every year, so no real rules for me.....

PS. Your after Christmas decor sounds lovely!

Thanks again for the lovelies!!!!

[Oznell]

Agree, @GingerHead ,  it's much less depressing "taking down" Christmas, if much of what you already have up is versatile enough to span the winter season-- it sounds like you are very much still left, after take-down, with light, natural elements and coziness, that can just go on and on for months...