How to Decorate With Christmas Centerpieces

You can buy holiday table decorations but it is very cheap and simple to make your own centerpieces using Christmas decoration and a candle. You can also use all kinds of Christmas decoration to make things like napkin holders and special cocktail markers for holiday drinks.

The dinner table centerpiece is the easiest of holiday table decorations. You can reuse an old door wreathe and simply put a bright red, white or green scented candle in the middle of it. You can also buy an armature (such as a circular grapevine) at a store that sells Christmas decoration crafts and wrap it in real or fake evergreen boughs or ivy. You can then wrap the boughs with ribbon or decorate it with glass balls.

Glass balls that you no longer want to use on the tree as Christmas decoration can be hung from a dining table chandelier. You can hang glass balls from the rims of cocktail glasses that are wrapped with holiday ribbons. Don’t forget that you can also use strings of light as part of your holiday table decorations. One idea is to frame the table with strands of mini lights or a rope light. Use your imagination and you will find many novel ways to make your holiday table look like it was laid out by a professional interior designer!

Believe it or not you can also make small centerpieces out of palm trees. Palm trees are holy because they decorated the desert in which Jesus was born. Perhaps the simplest of decorations for smaller palm tree s are strands of white or multi colored lights entwined around the trunk of the palm. Bright white, red, gold or green lights are the colors that say merry xmas although pink, yellow and lime green also looks excellent on tropical plants. As ornaments have hooks that can harm a palm tree you are best to affix glass balls or crystals to wired bowed and tie the decorations onto the delicate fronds of the palm tree.

If you are looking forward to a tropical merry xmas you can also find specialty strings of lights called palm tree decorations. These are the kinds of lights you find in a Tiki cocktail bar complete with glowing plastic pink flamingos, palm trees and other tropical themes. These look good on a palm tree but you can also use them on a regular xmas tree (such as an artificial white one) to give your holiday décor an unusual flair. It’s not very traditional but it is interesting.

How to Decorate for Christmas With Nostalgia

If you are looking for ideas for Christmas theme decorations, the first place to start is your memories from childhood. By taking one idea from what you remember as being really important to you as child and elaborating on it, you can easily create a Christmas holiday décor that is very personally unique.
For instance if it is snow that you most associate with Christmas, then consider building your Christmas theme decorations around the use of icicles, fake snow, white decorations and white Christmas Lights. If it is the smell of gingerbread that tweaks your memory the most than consider decorating the tree with gingerbread men and women that are decorated with icing b your family. If candy canes are what you remember try festooning garlands, trees and centerpieces with miniature red and white candy canes. Taking one idea and continuing to build on it is the best way to put your personal stamp on your Christmas holiday décor.

The Christmas mistletoe, which in reality is a very poisonous parasitic plant, has come along way from being the plant cursed for growing on the cross of Christ to one of the most sought after Christmas decorations online. The plant itself was used by Nordic cultures for magical rituals and its reputation as an important part in pagan magic has somehow translated over the years to become “the plant you kiss under at Christmas.” As real mistletoe is somewhat toxic to children and pets, you are best to order the plastic kind. You can order faux mistletoe with either red or white berries wherever you shop for Christmas decorations online.

Christmas mistletoe used to be hung from the eaves of the house to ward off evil spirits. In Nordic cultures, enemies were encouraged to make peace with each other beneath mistletoe with white berries. In England the mistletoe plant was burned on the twelfth night of Christmas to ensure that single people would marry by the end of the following year. The tradition of lovers kissing under mistletoe with red berries seems to be a custom begun by early American settlers. So when shopping for Christmas decorations online, by the white mistletoe if you want to keep the peace and the red if you want to encourage romance.

When shopping for Christmas decorations online, you will probably notice that not all Christmas mistletoe looks the same. European mistletoe has shorter stubbier leaves and has white berries. The true Christmas mistletoe that is used as decorations is native to North America and boasts red berries.