How to celebrate Hogmanay at home this year

2020 has been a challenging year, no doubt, and there is much to shout about in the new year with the celebration of renewal. New Year’s Eve 2021 will look different this time around. We won’t be in big parties with our friends and neighbors, a ball won’t fall in New York’s Time Square, and everyone in our orbit will be included when the clock strikes two -thirteen.

We can, however, reflect on the past twelve months, think about the future, and recognize the new year while we are safe at home. For the party hat, have a glass of bubbles in hand, and enjoy the last day of the year with the following New Year’s Eve party ideas.

Make it unique with Subject

Choose a destination and create a festival celebration at home with different food, art and cultural influences. You could focus on a state, maybe one you haven’t visited yet, and learn about history, landscapes and people.

Discovering New Mexico, for example, is an opportunity to ask your loved ones an “official state question”, marking your favorite color of chile: red or green? Choose chile and make tamales or Posóle for dinner and biscochitos hearty biscuits for desert. Follow a recipe for a traditional state holiday fare.

Decorate your outdoor walkway with a dozen luminaries, or Farolitos by placing candles inside paper bags.

Buy authentic New Mexico authentic products online and surprise everyone in your family with a handmade gift such as carved wood decorations, jewelry, artwork, prickly pear jelly, or salsa.

Virtual tours, experiences, exhibitions and classrooms: To explore New Mexico sites and attractions, take an online tour and see Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, Chaco National Cultural Park, Albuquerque Old Town, Bosque Chile Festival, Carlsbad Caves, Dough, Petroglyph National Monument , and many more.

Celebrate with a hearty cocktail

Wearing glasses and sucking an adult drink is an amazing New Year’s Eve experience. This may be the year to try new things, color off the lines, and taste a special drink… in a can.

Sweet Crude – based out of Austin, Texas – makes CBD cocktails, made from hemp extract. Try the OG Tonic or the Mellow Mule, which are both alcohol-free and very tasty.

‘Merican Mule makes a line of delicious cock in cans – Moscow (vodka), Tropical (rum), Mexican (tequila), South (bourbon), Fire (whiskey), and Pumpkin (vodka) – is that’s language tickets.

Volley combines organic juice and sparkling water with blue tequila agave to make soft drinks and fruit. Choose lime, ginger, grapefruit or mango or, better yet, get a multi-package, which includes all four flavor profiles.

Go outside

With e-school learning and working from home, getting out of the home can be a challenge. What better way to celebrate the new year than to start with some fresh air and be open to nature, with your social pod in tow? Gift up and take a walk, take the dog to the dog park, take your kids to the protected forest, walk down the lake, explore nearby frozen rivers and streams. Bring hot chocolate or white wine in a thermos, pack sandwiches, and spread a blanket on the ground for an alfresco picnic – Tarpestry makes durable, packaged, waterproof tar in fun prints. You get the idea. Bring festive sparks for some tradition.

Prepare for the weather: Be comfortable while exploring outdoors. Eddie Bauer has been experimenting with clothing and gear for 100 years. Built to survive, you can be sure that if your outdoor series doesn’t make a preform, Eddie Bauer will replace it.

Cold weather calls for layers of Merino wool, whether you’re skiing, snowing, or playing with kids in the backyard on New Year’s Eve. Enter: Kari Traa, makers of warm under wraps you can move into.

Hygge-Inspired Channel Comfort

This year has raised pressure and anxiety, making self-care important. Write down your intentions, thoughts, and hopes in a journal. Give yourself space and time to think deeply, meditate, listen to a podcast, read, or enjoy a hot tub. And, if you’ve taken enough time on your own, schedule a zoom meeting or face-to-face call with lovers and sync. A culture of gratitude by expressing what you are grateful for. Reconnect with what makes you happy and actively seek out those experiences.

This can help you: The SensorPEDIC weighted shoulder cover will give you targeted support for your neck and shoulders, perfect for people who work and study from home and need relief in the new year. Sip tea from a sustainable Charitis, which supports small family farms.

Celebrating New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day, will look different this year – it’s true – but it’s still worth the effort and to mark a moving time with a little compassion and position.