Is it time to buy a new Christmas tree? Don’t know what size to get? Lost when it comes to choosing from all of those decorations in the stores? This video is perfect for helping you choose the proper sized tree for your space and selecting the right ornaments to decorate it in a festive manner.
Is decorating your Christmas tree a family affair? If not, it should be! Putting out your family’s Christmas decorations is a great time to bond together and make great Christmas memories. This week, ChristmasMemories.org is featuring an article with suggestions and ideas to help you make holiday memories while you decorate.
Decorating your Christmas tree each year can sometimes be an exercise in self control. What, with all of those great new decorations stores put out on display year after year, it’s hard to resist buying a lot of new Christmas ornaments or other holiday decorations. But we all know that the more “stuff” we accumulate, the harder it is to keep control over the clutter in our homes. If you’re not careful, your Christmas display could get out of control after a few years of buying too many new ornaments. For some ideas on how to reuse or regift the old, check out the Christmas Home Decorations blog.
There’s no right or wrong way to decorate your Christmas tree. What’s important is that it’s decorated the way you want it to be, whether that means having a well-thought-out theme, like all gold or all silver or even wine or western ornaments, or having an eclectic mix of hand-made ornaments, heirlooms, and keepsakes.
There are, however, a few basic rules that you should follow to make sure that your tree design, whatever it may be, looks its best.
First, you’ll want to put your lights on first. This may seem obvious, but it can be an afterthought if you discover that your lights don’t work right or that there aren’t enough, after you’ve put the ornaments on the tree. Be sure to test before you do any more decorating. You’ll also need to have enough lights to create your desired effect. You don’t want too many lights, though, or you’ll have an electrical fire hazard and your tree will look too bright after the ornaments have been hung, since other decorations reflect the light. Lights also need to be evenly distributed for the proper effect.
When you hang your garland, be sure that you start at the top of the tree and work toward the bottom, and space them evenly. Be sure to buy enough garland, too. You’ll need about 9 feet of garland for each foot of height on your Christmas tree.
Ornaments should be the last thing you put on the tree (aside from the topper, of course). It’s probably best to hang fragile ornaments last, so you’re less likely to accidentally knock them off while hanging an ornament on a nearby branch. Try to distribute your ornaments as evenly as possible, even toward the back of the tree, if it faces a wall. Most importantly, have fun and be creative when you decorate your tree, and make it truly your own.
While we’re looking at strange but creative Christmas trees, here’s another! The Mountain Dew Christmas Tree is constructed from about 400 Mountain Dew cans attached to metal posts that go into the trunk of the tree. The tree is appropriately topped with a 2-liter bottle of Dew and is lit with white lights. The red, green, and gold coloring on the cans makes for a very festive looking tree!
From the “truly unique Christmas tree” files, this week, we have the beer bottle Christmas tree. Built from over 1,000 beer bottles with a bubble lamp in the center to provide color, this very interesting Christmas tree stands about 6.5 feet tall and is lit with 200 Christmas lights. Enjoy watching it all come together, in hyperspeed.
Decorating the Christmas tree is a task that’s usually steeped in tradition, from the ornaments that hang on it to the night the tree is decorated. If you’ve started a family of your own and haven’t yet established your own Christmas traditions, this might be the year to start. If you need some suggestions, check out ChristmasMemories.org, a blog devoted to helping you and your family create meaningful holiday memories and traditions. This week, they are featuring an article on starting your own Christmas traditions.
Each year when you take out the ornament boxes to decorate your tree, you probably have memories wrapped up in some of the ornaments that you hang up. Maybe it’s an ornament that your grandmother gave you at your first piano recital, or an ornament that your mother made when she was a little girl. Christmas ornament traditions make for great memories that can be shared from year to year and passed from generation to generation. Last week, the Christmas Home Decorations blog featured a two-part series offering suggestions for creating your own Christmas ornament traditions to share with your children.
Decorating the Christmas tree is usually a task steeped in tradition, with special ornaments that come out year after year to remind us of events and people in our pasts as well as our present. Tree decorating also provides a great opportunity to start a few traditions of your own that your children will remember year after year. It could be as simple as the kind of cookies you snack on while you decorate, or even sitting down to make some brand new ornaments to hang up. The Christmas Traditions Blog has a list of ideas to help you start some traditions of your own, and several of them relate to decorating the tree.
This easy Christmas craft project makes it simple to add a personal touch to your Christmas tree and create lasting family memories. Take an evening to sit around the kitchen table with your family and make these adorable clothespin reindeer ornaments. They’re inexpensive and easy to make. If you use craft glue instead of hot glue, even young children can play an active role. Watch this video for a demonstration: