Apr
01
2012
While gift-buying consumes the lion’s share of most budget, holiday decorating doesn’t have to be expensive. A little ingenuity goes a long way!Here are a host of ways you can decorate your home without spending a bundle this year: Round up whatever teddy bears are living in your home and arrange them in a chair. Give them bright red ribbon neckpieces and pile small, brightly-wrapped packages and on their laps Cut lacy snowflakes from heavy white paper and hang them in your windows suspended from red and green ribbons. Buy some small ornaments and hang them on your houseplants. Use skinny gold ribbon instead of hangers for an especially festive touch. Collect the prettiest pine cones you can find an spray paint them gold and silver, covering some completely with paint and letting some of the natural color show on others. Pile them into a basket, put the biggest, fanciest ribbon you can fin on the handle and set near your fireplace or on your porch near your front door Buy a big, inexpensive clear glass bowl (flea markets, thrift stores, and dollar stores are good bets for these) and fill it with individually wrapped candy canes of peppermints for family and guests to enjoy.
Make cookie cutter do dual duty: After you’ve finished your holiday baking, hang them on your tree. Gift wrap your front door with fancy foil paper. Glue a red ribbon diagonally from top to bottom. Make a collage of old Christmas cards, put it in an inexpensive frame and hang it on your wall. Use evergreen boughs liberally. If you don’t have any evergreen trees of your own, contact tree trimming services in your area and ask if you can get some for free. Make evergreen garlands and wrap them around stair and deck railings and drape them from your fireplace mantel, using plaid taffeta or red velvet ribbon to secure them with inside and red weatherproof ribbon outside. Group several white or ivory candles of different sizes and heights together in the middle of your coffee table on
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Jan
25
2012
Let us bring Christmas spirit to our home with the Yuletide interior decorations. But the only hindrance would be the annual budget for our home improvement decoration during the holidays. We need to be practical in everything that we do. Most people are into simple decorations only. They would love just few ornaments for their home just to take part on the advent season.
There are many practical ways to create decorations that would not let us spend much. We can make some customized decorations to easily match our yuletide decoration concept. It would only need our initiative and creativity. We only need some materials to complete our design. We can also use some old Christmas decorations stuff. Like old ribbons, silver and gold bells, poinsettias and some other ornaments that can create a beautiful holiday wreaths decoration.
If we have hard time creating or decorating Christmas tree because we lack resources, Christmas wreaths are the best alternative to enjoy the holiday spirit. On our front door, wreaths can be of great beauty. It greets out guests with a warm smile and reminds our neighbors that Christmas is coming. That way, they will start celebrating and join the holiday celebration.
We might also add some accents to our wreaths to emphasize and make it look more gorgeous. We can spirally wrap the ribbon on the wreaths following the circular shape or tie the ribbon and place it at the bottom of the wreath together with the poinsettias and the candles. We may also put silver or golden ribbon accent on the candles to make it look special. We may also add on some miniature silver bells or silver dust on the wreath to add some color.
Best thing about our holiday wreaths is the flexibility because we can place it anywhere in the house. It can be for our door, indoor walls and outdoor use as well. We may also hang it on the ceiling of our patio. Wreaths don’t require an exact size. We may create small and large wreaths depending on the suitability of the decoration in our home.
Wreaths may be simple but the impression it brings us is priceless. Have fun creating your Christmas wreaths and Happy Christmas!
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