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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:17 PM

Holiday Decorating Tips?

We bought our first tree over the weekend -- a whooping five-footer -- it's the perfect size for our small space and fits nicely in the corner of our living room. We decorated it with a few ornaments and some lights, and it really got us in the holiday spirit.

So now that we have the tree, I want to give our place a little holiday makeover. Besides the tree, we have a couple red candles, and that's it. I don't want to go too overboard, but I do want to find a few more holiday accents to add to our space. One other catch is that I'm also worried about storage -- it has to either double as decor for other seasons or be prized enough to go into one of our three under-bed boxes in the off season.

Anyone have simple holiday decorating ideas? I'm all ears!

Posted by Knot Anja
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re: Holiday Decorating Tips?

My favorite holiday decoration this year is done by using nature.  I gathered pinecones from outside, spray-painted some silver and placed them in a vase with a gold candle.  You can look at my website for pictures.  It was free (we had the spraypaint leftover from another project) so I don't feel guilty throwing it away at the end of the season.  I've heard of people doing the same with tree branches as well,  I also just got a lot of silver and gold candles as decoration because I light candles a lot so I'm sure by the end of the season those will need to be thrown away too.

Posted by stephraeann    Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:33 PM


re: Holiday Decorating Tips?

That's perfect! I love the nature idea -- I'm going to check it out on your site. I was also thinking of buying a poinsettia for our entryway, which also works with my no-storage rule. Thanks!

Posted by Knot Anja    Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:54 PM


re: Holiday Decorating Tips?

Watch out with the poinsettia if you have pets.  Also I just read that holly and mistletoe are toxic to pets as well.  Sometimes we get so wrapped up with the holiday decorating that we can overlook things like that.

Posted by stephraeann    Thursday, December 06, 2007 1:04 PM


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