The holiday season is such a wonderful time to create beautiful spaces within your home that ooze joy and gratitude. This year, the Christmas season is especially different given the pandemic and the need to stay put this year. In this article, I will share my easy and creative ways to create the perfect Christmas setting in your home.
If you have pictures of past Christmas', print them out to be uniform in size and use them to make a photo Christmas tree on your wall. This is a great way to reflect on Christmas' before and bask in the memories of special times during the holidays.
Candles – pull all the candles from around the house and make a display. Place a mirror behind the display to cast even more ambiance when they are lit. Different sizes and holders will look fine. Add ribbons, bows, ornaments, holly and evergreen to cover any holders that you feel look non-seasonal.
Gather all of your pewter or brass candleholders, make an arrangement with some evergreen branches, a bow (can be from past holidays), and ornaments. This arrangement will make a nice little vignette.
If you or your children have holiday toys – like the figures from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, make a display out of them! The key here is to use what you have and try to be creative. For example – cotton batting as a base for a nativity scene or nutcracker collection will look great.
Your children’s action figures or dolls, can be used as a display, too.! Add a ribbon here, a tiny wrapped gift there, and your child’s superheroes are celebrating Christmas with you! Does your child have toy trucks lying around? Why not make a centerpiece using his trucks? You can have Santa in the driver’s seat (you can pick up a Santa figurine almost anywhere), wrap small boxes to fill the cargo bays of the trucks and maybe even a tiny Christmas tree tied to the roof – and you and your child just made a great centerpiece. This one is actually my favorite!
If you are looking for something a little more serious but beautiful, just add white lights. Yes, it is that simple. Wrap white lights around a garland and drape them down a staircase or from a mantle. This method still looks elegant and doesn’t cost very much. If you want to use a fake garland, that is a good choice considering you can reuse it year after year.
Decorating doesn’t have to cost a fortune to look like it did! Fabric stores have wonderful velvets this time of year. Buy a couple of yards of red and green and use that as your Holiday table cloth, table runner, centerpiece base or for your serving table. Also look for sheer fabric and ones with snow and glitter to make your table look festive. Just hem the edges for a more tailored look. If you don’t sew, no problem. There are products that will help you make a hem just by ironing! Ask an associate at the fabric store and they will be able to help you.
Bead garlands of gold and silver on a table, with a garland, at the base of candles looks elegant as well.
Pine cones, in a silver bowl on a mirror in the center of a table, look very elegant – especially if you also place taper candles on either side.
You can also place colorful Christmas Tree round ornaments in a bowl. This really helps to add a pop of color in your already festive space.
Have your children make napkin holders using paper towel tubes. You will need to cut them to size, then they can wrap in wrapping paper, ribbons, bows, etc. Let their imagination go wild!
There you have it! Do one or all of these to make your home extra cozy and festive this Christmas. Remember, it does not have to be perfect, just have fun and cherish this time with your family. That’s what Christmas is really all about. Happy crafting!
Written by Alicia Rockmore
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