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Make Your Own Evergreen Table Decorations

Linette Gerlach — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:34:07 +0000

Decorations for your holiday table can be as simple as walking outside and snipping a couple branches off of your evergreens. Some of my favorite evergreens to take a snip of include fir, juniper, blue spruce, holly, or pine boughs. Any of these would look great added to a Christmas floral arrangement, or strung from the fireplace mantle.

You can also add to a large vase with some fresh fruit, like oranges and lemons, or arranged with Christmas bulbs, or pine cones and white lights to make an evergreen garland down the center of your table.

If you have your own evergreen trees or bushes, just steal a couple of the bottom branches, or a few branches right out of the middle. If you don’t trim too heavily, you won’t even know the branches are gone. You can also use the trimmings off of your Christmas tree, instead of throwing them out, or purchase greens at local garden centers, or Christmas tree farms.

You can also use your fresh evergreens as part of a Christmas centerpiece.

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Creating a Holiday Centerpiece

Linette Gerlach — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:22:24 +0000

I took a floral arranging course several years ago, and I still love creating my own floral arrangements, especially for the holidays, and for holiday entertaining.

Creating a holiday centerpiece doesn’t have to be difficult, and you might even have some of the things you need already in your home. If you have a beautiful basket, or vase that you’re not sure what to do with it would make a great base for your holiday centerpiece.

Here are a couple other ideas for holiday centerpiece containers or bases:

A small sleigh
A wagon
Flower pot
A small burlap bag (made to look like Santa’s bag)
A horn of plenty
A wrapped gift box, or floral foam wrapped up like a present.
A pumpkin or gourd
Yule log
Serving tray
A holiday bowl

You get the idea, many things can be the base of your holiday centerpiece, just use your imagination. You can also be creative on what you use in your centerpiece arrangements, including:

Evergreen branches
Pine cones
Flowers
Fruits
Vegetables
Beads
Feathers
Wire small presents, angels, or ornaments into your arrangements
Fall leaves
Candles
Dried fruits
Raffia or ribbon
Dried seed pods
Mini lights

Just be creative. If you’re creating a centerpiece for Thanksgiving use fall colors, fruits, and vegetables. For a Christmas or New Years centerpiece use whites, reds, greens, blues, golds or silvers.

Dried floral foam makes a great base. Here’s a wonderful video with a great example of a
holiday centerpiece being created from Monkey See.

It’s really not hard to create your own holiday centerpiece, and it can save you a ton of money over purchasing pre-made decorations.

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Easy Christmas Centerpieces and Decor

Linette Gerlach — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:43:11 +0000

You can use ornaments for more than just decorating the Christmas tree. They make wonderful cheap and easy centerpieces and holiday party decor. Here are some easy Christmas centerpieces, and holiday decorations you can recreate for your parties this season.

Need more inspiration? Here are two super simple looks created with a few ornaments and a bowl.

Images (c) L Gerlach

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