One particularly popular trend for decorating your home this Christmas is the Glitterati theme. This is a theme in which everything is gold must rule: like the saying “All that glitters is not gold”- except this time it is true. All that glitters must be painted or colored gold and silver for this Christmas theme to be successful.
Technically silver symbolizes the moon and gold symbolizes the sun. The moon means wisdom and the sun means hope. All of your Christmas ornaments on the tree, mantel, stair case or elsewhere should be this color. You can get Christmas balls in polished, matte, paralyzed and shiny colors.
Tie hundreds of these balls together to make a gorgeous, opulent Christmas garland that can be hung on the staircase banister or as a garland on the mantelpiece. They also look good as a garland on a chandelier or hung individually as balls from the chandelier frame.
A beautiful centerpiece can be made by filling a glass tiramisu container with gold ornaments. You can then use gold dinner ware to add an even stricter gold shine to your table setting. One tip is to know that gold looks very elegant against a natural wood table. It is much hipper to lay out your table on bare wood then cloth if you are using this glitterati theme for your table. You can also use tiny Christmas balls wrapped with gold ribbon to wrap your napkins together.
A very elegant and simple craft project is to make an enormous wreathe (think the size of a hula hoop out of many different sized shiny gold and silver Christmas bars. This can be showcased one large wall in your home.
You can also make small hanging pendants out of clumps of small silver balls and hang them by transparent thread in a window where they will catch the light.
For another wonderful effect wrap a few presents in silver and gold wrap and make sure that there are no patterns. You can also attach gold and silver balls to the top of the present.
You can even hang very tiny balls on the edge of your Christmas cocktails so people can identify whose glass belongs to whose.
If the “gold on gold” effect becomes a bit much for you then you can always tone it down by using a bit of bronze or pewter in your color mix. Soft lighting also helps this look less showy and more elegant.