STROLLING SINGERS

Create a serene sofa table grouping with muted pastels and rich burgundy accents. This pair of carolers, a ceramic yard-sale figurine detailed with musical notes and dusted in iridescent glitter, inspired Carolynn to unite it with a rustic church birdhouse already in her collection. “Then I found the Thomas Kinkade book later, at another sale,” she notes, thrilled with the pages printed with Christmas carol lyrics. Gather similar elements and then partially fill a glass jar with artificial snow and ring it with a simple garland of wood beads. Coat a few sticks with chalky-finish paint and stand them in the jar to balance the grouping’s height. Use a twiggy whitewashed sign to give a reverent nod to “Joy to the World.”