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Easy
Christmas Home Style
By Colleen Moulding
Harvest
nature's Christmas decorations
Fill your largest vase or pitcher with branches of red berries for
instant impact. Be sure to keep them where children can't reach
them, or any berries that fall.
Gather
cones, and pile them into baskets-interspersed with a few that you
have sprayed gold.
Secure
a branch into a pot with Polyfilla, or other quick drying cement.
Spray white, gold, silver, green, red or whatever color you choose.
Add baubles, ribbons, iced cookies or painted salt dough shapes
for an inexpensive tree that children would love to make for themselves.
Dream
theme
Choose a shelf or sideboard and only display there cards and decorations
in a certain combination of colours, e.g. red and green, gold and
silver. This is very quick and easy to do, yet always looks stylish.
Inexpensive
bead chains can be looped around curtains as pretty Christmas tie
backs.
Save
little boxes, matchbox size and over, and wrap them with oddments
of gift wrap. Use as decorations or display on the tree. If you
want to completely change your tree's colour scheme, this can be
a very economical way to do it, as all you need to buy is a couple
of sheets of gift wrap and some parcel ribbon.
Display
candles in front of a mirror to enjoy twice the beauty.
Wreaths
aren't just for front doors. Add a really pretty one to a plain
wall, or wind tinsel around a frame, fix on some baubles and hang
it somewhere that doesn't usually get decorated like a bathroom
or garage.
If
you don't have a fireplace and mantlepiece to decorate, make a dresser,
table or sideboard into a focal point. Swag it with real or artificial
greenery and bows, pile on baskets of fruit, nuts and sweets mixed
with candles and your favorite cards.
Tie
large wire edged ribbon bows to the backs of Christmas day dining
chairs. Trail a little ivy or use fake greenery if there are children
around.
Floating
candles in a glass bowl makes a pretty centrepiece, especially if
you match them to the rest of your table color scheme.
Scatter
wrapped chocolate coins across your table for added glitz. They
can be eaten up at the end of the meal.
Shiny
red apples can be wired on to swags and wreaths, or just piled into
baskets with cones, nuts and greenery. Or try using an apple corer
to take out just enough of the apple to enable you to push in a
candle for an unusual temporary candle holder.
Why
not decorate the children's bedrooms, as well as the main rooms
in the house? If you have a spare set of lights, they look magical
draped around a window, display table or even the tops of wardrobes.
Add some paper chains, they have made themselves, and a miniature
artificial or twig tree.
About the author: Colleen Moulding is a freelance writer from England
where she has had many features on parenting, childcare, travel,
the Internet and lots more published in national magazines and newspapers.
She has also published a variety of women's and children's fiction.
Her work frequently appears at many sites on the Internet and at
her own site for women and children All That Women Want.com a magazine,
web guide and resource for women everywhere. http://www.allthatwomenwant.com
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