Inexpensive Christmas Decorating Ideas For 2009 - Part Two: Turn to Mother Nature for Decorating Help
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 7:00AMPart Two: Turn to Mother Nature for Decorating Help
Now that you’ve looked around inside, take a walk and look for inspiration outdoors. Collect pine cones, seashells, milkweed pods or other interesting specimens you find. Use them as is or add a touch of faux snow, glitter or gold or silver spray paint.
Pine cones can be used in countless ways. Fill baskets with them and set them everywhere. Hang them from the tree or create your own pine cone wreaths. Just open up your imagine imagination and the ideas will come.
Go to a Christmas tree lot and see if they will give you (or sell very cheaply) the branches they’ve cut from the bottom of trees people have purchased. Line the mantelpiece with pine fronds or use the evergreen branches to trim around door frames. Not only will the boughs look nice, but they’ll add a rich holiday fragrance to your home.
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thank you so much for these innovative ideas..
Oh, I Love these ideas! Your basket of pine cones is beautiful! I'm going to use that idea for a "front drop" for seasonal wall decals I'm putting up. I get mine from http://www.wallslicks.com that have a matte finish so they look like they've been professionally painted on the wall. The pine cone basket will look stunning in front of the decorated wall! Thank you!
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A nice touch can also be using cinnamon sticks. It adds a nice holiday fragrance to a room, and there are ways you can make it look festive by tying the sticks together with a red bow, adding some pine around it, etc. One thing that my family does for Christmas is decorate our interior doors with wreaths, and I think adding some real nature to them will make the house smell more like the Holiday.