Christmas Decorating For Newlyweds
Everyone knows that newlyweds usually don’t have much money when they first get married. Not having the extra cash to spend on home decorating can be especially bothersome around Christmastime, but don’t worry! Decorating on a budget is fun and can bring a newlywed couple closer together as they create new holiday traditions.
Remember how much fun you used to have as a kid making your own Christmas decorations? Well, guess what, it is just as much fun as an adult! Go outside and gather together pinecones, fallen leaves, nuts, tree branches, or any other natural elements you can find that look interesting. Paint the pinecones, leaves, and nuts with gold spray paint and arrange them in a bowl, on the mantel, or glue colorful ribbons to them to hang on the tree like ornaments. Spray paint a bunch of bare tree branches in silver, gold, or even Christmas red. Tie them together with some ribbon in the middle and hang it over mirrors, doors, windows, or the fireplace.
Buy a big box of those inexpensive glass ornaments or use old hand-me-downs to design your own ornaments with your favorite colors. You can decorate the outsides with glitter, paint, or use decoupage. Using paint pens draw on stars, polka dots, trees, stockings, or whatever else you like. Using clear glass ornaments, take the metal hanger out from the top and pour acrylic paints inside of them and swirl it around to make some funky and interesting designs.
Make some beautiful beaded snowflake ornaments out of hatpins, beads, thread, and cork. Using hatpins with decorative pearl ends, place glass or plastic beads onto each one and leave about a quarter inch at the end. Paint the cork pieces and when dry stick the pins into the cork in a star pattern. Tie a piece of thread around the head of one of the hatpins and hang on the tree.
You don’t have to have a tree either to use all of your handmade Christmas decorations. Using brightly colored curling ribbon, hang your ornaments in-between staircase spindles, from beneath the fireplace mantel, in the windows, or just place them in bowls and set them on the table.
Using Christmas wrapping paper, ribbon, and bows wrap empty moving boxes or tissue boxes like presents and stack them all around the house. Your friends and family will really think you hit the jackpot with all those presents lying around the house! Take pictures off the walls and wrap them up like presents too and hang them back up again.
Add some Christmas sparkle to your home by saving old glass jars or buying mason jars at yard sales. Place a small tea light candle in each of them. Take some ribbon and tie it around the outside opening of the jar for a simple, yet elegant Christmas touch. Paint stars or red and green polka dots on the outsides and fill the bottoms with crushed up candy canes or colorful glass beads.
Written by Chrysta Baker
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