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HOLIDAY DECORATING IDEAS
By Matt Trostle
December gives us a great reason to spoil ourselves with holiday merriment. Decorating your home is good for you, no matter what holiday tradition you celebrate. Holiday decorations transform dull rooms. You add to your happiness when you adorn your home for the holidays. Guests love to come to a house festooned in holiday magnificence. Take some time for yourself and enjoy your holiday decorating.
The holidays are the best time for swift decorating and crafts projects. Try these smart designs: fasten sheet moss to the outside of a cardboard box using spray adhesive. Secure a large pillar candle inside the box by surrounding the base with more sheet moss. Finish it off with a bow. Or, using contact paper and a stamp, make labels to attach to empty paint cans. Pack the cans with tissue paper and cookies, top with a cheerful bow, and hand them out to lucky friends.
For Christmas dinner, position sprigs of cedar in a circle beneath each place setting for an attractive and low-cost natural wreath. Or, arrange flat leaves loosely on a cardboard round, using a dot of hot glue to hold their stems in place. Arrange cedar leaves in a sunburst pattern on each plate. Set soup bowls atop the cedar for a pretty holiday look. Dust colorful glitter on each place mat, and under clear soup bowls.
Spray paint a grapevine wreath white, and let dry for two days. Wrap the wreath with a strand of white lights. Place a glass bowl inside the wreath, wad up a second strand of lights and place it in the bottom of the bowl. Tuck crystal bead clusters (available in bridal and craft stores) into the wreath. Fill the bowl with ornaments, and decorate its edges with adhesive stars.
Fasten generous decorations (ribbons, garlands) to candlesticks, chair backs, and picks in plants, wreaths, basket handles, drapery tiebacks, stair railings, and doorknobs. Use holiday tableware for every meal in December. Arrange lots of candles on the dining table and eat by candlelight, even if you’re having takeout. Put a wreath or swag on every door you have.
Collect holiday items such as candles, flowerpots, wooden shapes, picture frames and even branches from the garden and paint them silver or gold. Dust the pieces with gold, silver or sparkling-white glitter before the paint dries. Start saving burnt out light bulbs at the start of the holiday season to make into holiday ornaments. Paint each bulb, wrap a wire on the socket and use it to hang the bulb on the tree.
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