Decorating the Christmas Tree

It's that time of year where we go out and chop down an evergreen tree, hit the local store for an artificial tree, or dust off our artificial tree from years before.

However you aquire the Christmas tree, you will ultimately be decorating it, and we would like to help you with ideas and themes to create a beautiful Christmas tree.

Start with an idea of what you want the tree to look like. Perhaps you collect certain ornaments and decorations, like snowmen, stantas, nutcrackers, or angels. Which ever one you may collect, you can use them as a start for your Christmas tree theme.

Say you collect all things santa claus. You can take the santa ornaments. Find a color that is used with most of the ornaments, and use that as your color for the lights, garland, and/or ribbons that will also adorn the tree. You could even have a Santa Claus tree topper.

Whatever you like, you can use that as a starting point for decorating the tree.

Perhaps you do not collect any type of Christmas trinket. Maybe you only like the colors of Christmas, or color in general. If this is the case, you can create a beautiful color coordinated Christmas tree that revolves around the theme, color.

Some wonderful color combinations for Christmas are the traditional red and green, blue and silver, red and gold, green and either gold or silver, purple and silver, silver and gold, white and gold, white and silver, or a combination of them all!

One theme I truly enjoy is one that is not traditionaly Christmas related, and that is a theme for an item that you might collect or enjoy year round.

Do you collect peacocks? If so, you could deck your Christmas tree in peacocks, peacock colors, and peacock feathers. This would be a unique and beautiful way to express yourself.

This theme could work for anything you may collect; such as, birds, elmo, baby dolls, teddy bears, beach memerobelia, sea shells, etc.

Once you have your idea for the Christmas tree theme, start decorating!

Christmas Ornaments and Other Goodies

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The Christmas Table

As we approach the Christmas holiday, we start to think of how we are going to decorate the Christmas table for our holiday meal.

Well, as with all decorating, we have a lot of options.

A simple option is to use a nice glass or crystal bowl, toss in some pretty bulbs or round glitter ornaments, and voila! You have a pretty, festive centerpiece that was simple to create. Place a few candles, appropriately sized, around the bowl to add more sparkle.

To tie the rest of the table in with the bulb centerpiece, place a festive ribbon around the fabric napkins, and add two tiny bulbs to the end of the ribbon.

One could take the bulb theme a bit farther, and use bulbs or ornaments with flat bases as place holders. If you do not need place holders, you could also use the bulbs as a small gift. Place the bulb next to each plate. If used as a gift, add a family photo or gift card to the top where the placecard typically would be.

As always, get creative and have fun with it!

Trimming the Tree

The Christmas tree is the focal point for most of our holiday decorations, that is why some of us pour over ideas on how to trim the tree to make it perfect.

Fortunately, for those of us looking for new ideas, there are always new ones out there! From magazine racks to department stores, we can gather inspiration on how we might trim our tree for Christmas.

One of our favorite ways to trim a tree is to add silk flowers. You can use floral picks, or full floral stems to create a beautiful display throughout the tree. We like to use single stemmed poinsettias in multiple colors scattered throughout the tree. The flowers add a softer touch to the pine tree, and also will compliment your ornaments nicely.

If you are not fond of poinsettias, try roses, hydrangeas, or berry sprays.

Anything can be incorporated into your Christmas tree as long as it matches well with the ornaments, garland, and your other decorations.

As with most home decorating, trimming the Christmas tree requires nothing more than a personal touch.

Have fun with it, and if you need silk flowers for your tree or your home, contact us at C S Flowers.

The Christmas Wedding

What makes the Christmas wedding elegant, sophisticated, and not anything like a Christmas party?

Colors.

If you choose colors that are not the traditional red and green that we all see for Christmas, you will be able to pull off an elegant, sophisticated, and classy wedding.

So what colors do you use for a Christmas wedding when you want to add a little Christmas spirit to the celebrations?

Blues and silver are elegant, not as traditional, and can be tied into the bridesmaids dresses and tuxes, flower bouquets, and centerpieces.

Another beautiful color scheme would be the use of red or green mixed with gold or silver. Personally, we would use a dark maroon or burgundy red with silver. For green, we would use a dark hunter or forest green with gold.

Of course, the gold and silver could be switched, and one could use any shade of red with gold, and a lighter more silvery green with silver.

Ivory or white also makes a great accent for the color schemes listed above, or as the second color instead of silver or gold, to mix with blue, red, or green.

Remember that even though it is a Christmas wedding, you still want the celebrations and events to say wedding more than Christmas. Most of all, you want the event to reflect your own style and personality.