SureFit.com
, America’s leading
Slipcover
company, sponsors
decorating ideas contests throughout the year. Most of the ideas come from
consumers via the company’s web site. Company employees chose their
favorite ideas to share with everyone who loves holiday decorating:
- Make gingerbread men and women to use as edible place cards for
Christmas dinner. Decorate each cookie to look like one of the dinner
guests (i.e. white hair for dad). It becomes a game to find the cookie
that looks like you!
- Place a small Christmas tree in each
bedroom
and
bathroom
. Try
different themes so it is easier to collect just the right amount of
ornaments, i.e. a Victorian tree, a Western/Country tree, a Kid’s
tree, and a Hand-Made Ornament tree. Collect small tree skirts and
nativities for each room as well. It really makes Christmas a
celebration throughout the house! With the trees on timers, each
person can go to sleep and wake up with Christmas lights without
wasting energy!
- If you live in the Southwest, use an old Yucca plant as a Christmas
tree. Put little toys, key rings, or seasonal items on it. Then top it
off with chili lights or cactus lights.
- To bring a bit of winter to a Florida home, place bare branches and
fir branches topped with apples and pears on the fireplace mantel.
- Dress up a dining room chandelier by draping six-inch pieces of
cedar boughs over the arms of the chandelier. For extra sparkle, weave
(battery powdered) tiny white lights throughout the boughs. (Battery
pack can be easily camouflaged in the chandelier base.)
- Place an old fashioned children’s sled on a cloud of soft, fluffy
snow-like fabric. Put a six-foot slender Christmas tree on top of the
sled and decorate it with colorful plaid ribbons, pinecones, wooden
beads, and red, green and gold balls. Use only use red, green and
white twinkling lights.
- Make a table runner out of bamboo placements by hot gluing them
together and adding a red piece of fabric on top from a local fabric
store. Sprinkle holiday beads and plenty of candles on top. Adorn each
place setting with an inexpensive red wine glass with a beaded ribbon
tied around it and a festive berry napkin holder to go with the bamboo
theme.
For more holiday decorating ideas or a free slipcover catalog, visit
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