Photo provided. Everybody presents Santa Claus decorations a little bit differently. No matter what your decor, you can find a Santa to fit.

According to online interior designer Coral Nafie, there are a number of ways you can choose a color scheme to follow with your Christmas decorations. Nafie offers the following suggestions:

Your home's color scheme
Focus on the colors you have in your home year-round and select complimentary colors that bring out the seasonal feeling.

Colors from your
childhood Christmases
If you have particularly happy memories from Christmas past, Nafie says, try to choose a color theme to enhance that memory. If you loved all the candy canes, choose a red and white color scheme. Did your tree have shiny silver tinsel layed over the boughs? Maybe you'd like a silver glittery color scheme.

Colors from a decorating motif
Do you love the luscious and luminous beaded fruits? Then you might want to bring the jewel tones into all your Christmas decorating, Nafie suggests. Do you love rustic, earthy decorations? Then you might want to stick with greens, browns and golds.

A piece of fabric
If you have seen a beautiful fabric that would be spectacular on the center of your dining room table, draw your Christmas colors from the fabric design. Bring the hues into all the rooms for a unified look.

A sentimental collectible Christmas decoration
Were you given a special Christmas decoration from your childhood home? If so, make that the focal point and use the colors from it for your color scheme.

Hues from your home
If your home has warm colors, it would be best to choose golds and reds for decorations rather than icy white and silver. Keep with the feeling of your home for a harmonious decor.

Photos from magazines and books
Though the pictures might look casual and lived in, most photo layouts from magazines and books are "staged" by professional designers. Use their ideas to bring the color scheme and designs into your home.

Holiday gift wrap
You can see lots of color schemes used in Christmas gift wrapping paper. See which ones you like and think about the style, the motifs represented, and the colors. Choose a paper that would look good in your home and find more decorations to place around the house.

Ribbons
Almost any Christmas decorating is enhanced by adding ribbons and bows - lots of them. If you find a ribbon that you particularly like, use the colors for the decorating scheme throughout your home.

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Setting the Thanksgiving table
Interior designer Shirley Horowitz gives tips for Home & Garden Television on mixing and matching pieces from around the house for a Thanksgiving dinner
setting:
• Use a needlepoint runner diagonally as a table runner.
• Look for interesting pieces, like an antique wine carrier, for accent.
• Decorate a vase shaped like a horn-of-plenty - perfect for a small table setting.
• A mirrored perfume tray can hold chocolates or liquors.
• Mix different china patterns for a more interesting table. Cover a fruit pattern with a salad plate with a gold rim, or use a different colored gravy boat from other pieces.
• Artificial ram horns with silver candlesticks on them add a natural feeling.
• Use different heights of candlesticks.

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Willow Tree
Willow Tree represents qualities and sentiments that always help us to feel closer to others, begin to heal wounds, and treasure your relationships. Willow Tree designer, Susan Lordi uses body language and gestures to express these emotions.
"Emotions and feelings are left to the viewer to discern, which makes them very personal," Lordi said on the Willow Tree Shop Web site.
Willow Tree angels and figurines are cast in wood-look resin from the original carving and then painted by hand. Each design is balanced between simplicity and detail making this a treasured artwork.
The collectibles are available in angels, figurines, ornaments, nativity sets, plaques and keepsake boxes in stores nationwide.

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When decorating your home for Christmas, one can't forget the traditional staples: tree, wreaths, fireplace mantle and exterior lights. But don't forget one accent that can freshen and brighten up your home for the holidays - flowers.
There are quite a few flowers that are more available during the winter," said Colleen Reese, manager of Renning's Flowers in Rochester. "We also do a lot of different varieties of silks."
After Thanksgiving, customers began thinking ahead to the biggest decorating holiday of the year.
"For Christmas or the holiday, we use evergreens, cedar, spruce," Reese said. "The colors change from fall colors - oranges and yellows - to reds, whites, gold, and plaids."
Wreaths, table centerpieces and fresh arrangements are favorites, she said.
Prices for fresh flowers fluctuate during the winter, Reese said, but most are still available at florists. Typical holiday flowers include the ever-popular poinsettia; the red- and pink-colored amaryllis; the white, star-shaped Star of Bethlehem; and even the flowered Christmas cactus. l