Thursday, December 3, 2009
The White House is celebrating Christmas with recycled ornaments, usual materials and, of course, a gingerbread White House. The 390-pound work of culinary art is enclosed in white chocolate and has a marzipan replica of family dog, Bo.
"Reflect, Rejoice, Renew" is the theme for the Obama family's first Xmas in the White House.Inspiration for the decorations came from the house itself, with Mrs. Obama chooses traditional decorations to reflect the architecture and color scheme of each room of the Georgian-style mansion. Natural materials such as magnolia, hydrangea, honeysuckle vine and pepper berries decorate trees and wreath in rooms on the State Floor, along with dried root materials from her vegetable garden on the South Lawn.
The centerpiece of it all is in the Blue Room: an 18 1/2-by-13-foot Douglas fir that was delivered last Friday and is lit with environmentally sound LED lights, decorating with huge gold ribbons and bows and more than 650 ornaments from prior administrations, and is tied to the ceiling.
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