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Quick Christmas Decorating Ideas
Decorating for Christmas doesn't have to cost a lot of money. You don't even need to spend money if you use things you already have and use a little imagination.
Something as simple as rearranging the furniture and adding some flowers in a big vase (or a bucket covered in wrapping paper) can add a festive feel to a room.
Here are some other simple ideas I've used over the years to bring Christmas cheer to our home.
Fill a 600ml (pint) sized mason jar (or a tall, straight sided jam jar) with small candy canes. Sit a tea light in the centre, it will add a welcome glow to a dark corner or look pretty on a Christmas dinner table.
Decorate church or pillar candles with gold or silver thumbtacks in pretty designs. You could add stars or Christmas trees, spirals, stripes, swirls, hearts or other pretty designs
Build a truffle tree (I think this idea is by far my family's favourite Christmas decoration) by pushing toothpicks through the centre of wrapped truffles to stick them to a styro foam tree shape. You can leave the truffles in their papers or take them out. The gold Ferrero Rochers look lovely, as so the white Raffaelos. Go modern and use red, blue and silver Lindt balls to make your truffle tree. I buy Lindt balls in bulk from Sweet As - I paid $19.95 for a kilo box a few weeks ago. Sit your tree on the coffee table and offer a truffle to visitors or use it as a centrepiece on your Christmas dinner table.
Wrapping paper isn't just for presents. Choose your favourite Christmas print and tack it to kitchen cupboard doors or the back of a dresser or china cabinet for a quick facelift. Cut the paper to size and use small dabs of blu-tac to stick it to the doors. After Christmas you can take the paper down without damaging the doors.
Add some bling to pinecones to liven them up. Just waster down some glue, dip the pinecones in the glue then in glitter. You can do the whole pine cone or just half. You can use gold glitter for a traditional look of coloured glitter to match your decorating theme.
Turn your cushions into presents by wrapping them in wide ribbon and sticking a big, fluffy bow in the centre.
Use all that Christmas paper you bought last year by turning it into old fashioned paper chains. Use them do decorate the Christmas tree instead of tinsel or hang them in swags across the windows.
Something as simple as rearranging the furniture and adding some flowers in a big vase (or a bucket covered in wrapping paper) can add a festive feel to a room.
Here are some other simple ideas I've used over the years to bring Christmas cheer to our home.
Fill a 600ml (pint) sized mason jar (or a tall, straight sided jam jar) with small candy canes. Sit a tea light in the centre, it will add a welcome glow to a dark corner or look pretty on a Christmas dinner table.
Decorate church or pillar candles with gold or silver thumbtacks in pretty designs. You could add stars or Christmas trees, spirals, stripes, swirls, hearts or other pretty designs
Build a truffle tree (I think this idea is by far my family's favourite Christmas decoration) by pushing toothpicks through the centre of wrapped truffles to stick them to a styro foam tree shape. You can leave the truffles in their papers or take them out. The gold Ferrero Rochers look lovely, as so the white Raffaelos. Go modern and use red, blue and silver Lindt balls to make your truffle tree. I buy Lindt balls in bulk from Sweet As - I paid $19.95 for a kilo box a few weeks ago. Sit your tree on the coffee table and offer a truffle to visitors or use it as a centrepiece on your Christmas dinner table.
Wrapping paper isn't just for presents. Choose your favourite Christmas print and tack it to kitchen cupboard doors or the back of a dresser or china cabinet for a quick facelift. Cut the paper to size and use small dabs of blu-tac to stick it to the doors. After Christmas you can take the paper down without damaging the doors.
Add some bling to pinecones to liven them up. Just waster down some glue, dip the pinecones in the glue then in glitter. You can do the whole pine cone or just half. You can use gold glitter for a traditional look of coloured glitter to match your decorating theme.
Turn your cushions into presents by wrapping them in wide ribbon and sticking a big, fluffy bow in the centre.
Use all that Christmas paper you bought last year by turning it into old fashioned paper chains. Use them do decorate the Christmas tree instead of tinsel or hang them in swags across the windows.