We used to dim the lights in our hall, but as my eyesight has gotten worse I’ve realized that’s often not a good idea.

Decorative lights can also bother me and my fairly odd vision—even moderately bright light at eye level feels quite glaring to me. Our hall has sconces which our musicians would sometimes turn on to light their sheet music; we got a pole light so they’d have lights with shades to avoid that eye-level light. (Not-so-bright little decorative lights would be fine for me. Individual lights twinkling wouldn’t drive me crazy, but a group of them blinking would probably send me home.)

We’ve done garlandy things, which could be seasonal (though my preference would be not holiday-specific).

Seems like quilts would be difficult to hang, but cloth would be nice. We got a bunch of (cheap polyester) saris to decorate a dance camp one year, which drape nicely and are an easier-to-manage width than yardage fabric. Similarly, second-hand clothing shops always have more scarves than they know what to do with, seems like they could be a nice wintery decoration.

We’ve hung crepe paper streamers from helium balloons, which unfortunately proved a bit too clever when the balloons lost helium over the course of the evening.

Read Weaver
Jamaica Plain, MA
http://lcfd.org

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