During Christmas decorating is one of my favorite things to do.

There aren’t any specific brands that I would prefer, I chose my decorations and ornaments according to my taste, if I find them cute/beautiful or not, and how it would suite my home and the other decorations that I already have.

However, I especially like star shaped or sparkly ornaments, that I can hang around my house or on my tree. First off, I start with Christmas lights.

I would hang them all around the interiors of my house except for the bedrooms and kitchen. I have different lights that I hang in different rooms. Read More »

I love to decorate for Christmas. I put up a 5 foot tree in my living room and hand many years of collected misc. ornaments on it.

Above it I hang a pine garland with lights above it across the top of the curtains on my sliding glass door.

I have collectible Hallmark ornaments, each being a different victorian house or store.

I place them оn shelves with lights around them covered with a light layer of white cotton so they just shine through. Very pretty. Read More »

For the last five years, my fiance, Melissa, and I have decorated our home together. She and I met at college, where would each put out a small three foot Christmas tree with very small, glass plastic bulbs and a single strand of tinsel.

Each of us spent maybe fifty dollars total and used the same decorations all three years we knew each other.

Once we graduated college and moved in to an apartment together, however, our decorations became more elaborate as our budget (and space) expanded.

We lived near a Hallmark card store, and we began a tradition of picking our a Hallmark ornament together each year, spending $20 – $30 each year. Read More »

My tree is artificial and is five years old. It is authentic and most people think that it is real.

I always start by putting on the lights. I use a clear bulb set and a long multicolored set which is multi-functional.

This set plays carols and has various flashing modes. I then add lots of tinsel.

I use the same colored tinsel rather than multi colors. I either choose blue, gold and occasionally silver. Read More »

Christmas decorations were a very special big deal in the house where I grew up, my parents loved to decorate and celebrate and we spent several weeks getting ready and enjoying the season.

My dad invited “the girls” from his office to a tree-trimming party, and each brought an ornament to hang.

This resulted in a larger and larger collection of ornaments, and my mom always bought “a few” new ones so we could join in placing new ones too.

Then after all the new ones were in place we hung all the other older ornaments, with carols and other holiday music squawking out of the lo-fi record player of those days.

And as might be guessed, my mom spent the next days following the party re-hanging and “fixing” the position of all those dozens of ornaments so they each showed up to advantage (and so the ones she liked were prominent, of course). Read More »

Last Christmas we use some decoration made of indigenous materials.

We try to collect some used news paper an covered it with some colorful papers such as foil and silver dust.

From that materials, we made a lantern, while our Christmas tree is also made of indigenous material. We use a hard broom decorated with used Christmas balls. Read More »

I love decorating for holidays, Christmas being one of the most fun. The first thing that I look for in my Christmas decoration shopping are strings of vibrantly colorful lights.

White can be beautiful, but I prefer more whimsical light displays, utilizing colors one doesn’t see very often when looking at house Christmas lights, such as pink , orange or even these wonderful rainbow ones I found one year- not merely multicolored, they range the full spectrum and have at least 15 shades.

With such bright lights, I prefer to keep other outdoor decorations a bit more understated. I like a big wreath on the door and something in the window like electric candles.

Indoors, I like to keep one big artificial tree. Wound with more of those cute rainbow lights and a string of white ones for extra sparkle, I keep the ornaments to a minimum.

I have a big white star the goes atop my tree. Each point is a different primary color. Combined with the lights it looks very colorful and pretty.

My tablecloth usually reflects the current holiday and around Christmas time I use a lovely plaid cloth- green and red with metallic gold stripes in it. I get lots of compliments on this each year – I actually picked it up at a garage sale!

I prefer store brand lights and trees. My big tree came from Target and has held up very well over the years. I actually purchase Target brand items for most of my Christmas decoration needs.

Their prices and quality are very competitive and I have never once been disappointed by them. The few ornaments I do use are handcrafted- pine cones and glitter, or construction paper figures. I use dollar store craft items to accomplish this.

I don’t have to have big fancy brand items to have a lovely and fun Christmas – thrifty decorating helps me give my friends and family the extravagant gifts that I love to give. The best decoration of all is a big smile on a happy face!

Christmas decoration can be made at home.

For me Christmas is one of the favorite holidays and also very special.

I make wreath of any theme or out of anything because I’m an artist.

Actually you giving ideas of what you want. I spend a lot of money on decorations because what I make are Special things.

I can make things out of garbage that might worth a million. I am a crafter I craft all the details on the Christmas trees, trim mini bags. foam decorations. Read More »

One day my young son asked, “Daddy, What are we doing for Christmas?” I knew that he knew, and he knew I knew, but I answered him anyway. “Well, we could put a wreath on the garage.” He made a face.

“Or we could put two wreaths up.” Another face. “Or we could put up some, lights, signs, Inflatables, snowmen, snow globes, penguins, a Santa or two and a wreath.” “Yeah!” he cheered.

I told him to dress warmly and he ran off to his room. Meanwhile, I went to get out the lights. We started on the inside and put up special candles in the windows and on the mantle. Then we put up Dominick’s brand variegated tinsel. Next, we put up the talking Santa from FIM (Fun In Motion). Read More »

As a Christian family, Christmas holidays mean a great deal to us. What we do every year, right after Thanksgiving, is to begin preparing for the Christmas “setup”, as we call it.

We have keep all ornaments and decorations in the attic. Every year we try to buy something new to add to our collection. But our greatest tradition is to use the same ornaments year after year.

We have some ornaments that date back to the 1970′s. These include crystal balls that our kids have decorated themselves, either in school projects or at home. Of special value to us is a small Angel, made out of plastic, that was decorated by one of our children who is now deceased.

He made that angel when he was about 5 years old. It consists of a plain, regular, white, plastic angel, as you normally find in any store. But he had decorated it in a very special way. Using glue and glitter he painted the wings in glittery white paint, the hair was bright yellow, the robe also white and the sandals were colored light brown.

The cheeks and lips of the angel were painted red. The angel had a little halo attached to the head and my son had added special shiny silvery glitter to that part, it was quite remarkable.

Each year we placed that little angel right in the front branches of the tree. It has been many years since my son passed away but the small plastic angel still takes front row on our tree. It is faded and most of the glitter is now gone, but everyone refers to it as George’s angel and we take loving care of it.

We use many other ornaments we have accumulated throughout the years made by all of our kids and now grandkids as well. We do make new bows each year to change the overall color of the tree decorations. Read More »