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Handmade ornaments for Christmas tree
Looking for new handmade Christmas decorations?
Looking for new ideas planning your Christmas party?
Your secret desire? to set up your Christmas table in a different way and to preparare an unusual Christmas menu to astonish your guests!
We have the solutions for you!
On this page you'll be able to find all that you're looking for: our exclusive and original greeting cards, invitation cards, DIY decoration ideas, gift ideas, Christmas recipes, Italian Christmas menus, table setting ideas, centerpieces ...
To begin: read our new exclusive ideas for Christmas 2011. We update the page every few days with new ideas and recipes.
Consult also our blog, close to Christmas, for the last tips ...
Planning your Christmas party - what you can find on this page
- - Planning parties at Christmas

- - Christmas decorations

- - Setting the table at Christmas

- - Christmas recipes

- - Some Italian menus for Christmas

- - Italian Christmas cakes

- - And after Christmas time ... ?

News. Look at our new ideas for trimming your Christmas tree
- Christmas tree gets into a game
what is Santa doing? - Story-teller Christmas tree
the story of the little bird whose name is Christmas
The above Christmas tree is our first idea about a new line of Christmas trees. We call them: Christmas tree game and story-teller Christmas trees. In other words we suggest to trim your Christmas tree according to a game or a story-line of a fairy tale. A fairy tale? what fairy? There is a new fairy, Fairy Elle that lives at Bosco (read forest). She has great magic powers. For example while she is reading the rules of a game or a new story, a pine of Bosco dresses up and become a wonderful Christmas tree.
You could suggest your kids to cast their own spell as Fairy Elle does trimming the pine for Christmas in the same!

Planning a Christmas party
- - Greeting and invitation cards, menu and place cards
(members-only area) if you have subscribed to this area, you can download the complete series of greeting card, invitation card, menu card and placecard with the same template for Christmas.
Besides we personalize these cards on demand.
That's cool! Your Christmas party will be very successful! - - Printable free Christmas invitation and greeting cards

- - Printable free Christmas menu cards, Italy-style

- - Printable free Christmas place cards, Italy-style


Handmade Christmas gifts
- - Christmas gift wrapping ideas
instructions for fashionable ways of wrapping your gifts - - Fashionable Christmas gift ideas, Italian style

- - Websites about Italian products
(members-only area) we propose a list of Italian websites that purchase Italian food or where you can find some original gifts, Italy-style - - New and modern Christmas gift ideas
read our blog for new fashionable ideas, Italy-style - - D.I.Y. Christmas gifts, Italy-style
The most original gift is a scarf to wear as a necklace made with wool and beads. That's cool! - - The jewel boxes
(members-only area) how to make nice boxes for your precious Christmas gifts - - The elf boxes
(members-only area) original D.I.Y. boxes for your Christmas gifts - - Christmas boxes
handmade little boxes - - The worm village
you have to make a gift to a child ... what about a tasty and nice cake?

DIY Christmas decorations
Waiting for Christmas
- - Advent Calendar
the panel is kinitted, numbers and Christmas crib cut out from felt - - Countdown to Christmas
be creative for the Holidays! craft with your children! - - Advent Calendar with Santa's story
what happens at Santa's home before he leaves on Christmas Eve? - - Christmas crib
Christmas crib is one of the most popular Christmas decorations and in Italy there are the most beautiful Christmas cribs - - The Nativity scene
handmade crib that represents Jesus birth. The characters are made with felted wool.
Waiting for New Year's Eve
- - New Year's Day decoration
hang it on the main door or on an wall for your New Year's Eve Party
Christmas wreaths and other decorations for main doors, walls and shop windows
- - Door Christmas decoration with pine-tree branch - 1
pine branch is decorated with red velvet ribbons and a ball with your monograms. Your simple Christmas decoration is ready! - - Door Christmas decoration with pine-tree branch - 2
simple-to-do Christmas craft with recycled ornaments - - Door Christmas decoration with pine-tree branch - 3
a pine-tree branch hosts an elegant elf that triggers children imagination ... red more - - Angels and moon on the main entrance
easy-to-do craft decoration to make with your kids waiting for Christmas - - A red berry Christmas wreath
red berry sprays twisted with white glittered flowers, silk ivy and grapes - - Green and gold Christmas wreath
very refined but easy-to-do wreath - - A very coloured Christmas garland
unusual, easy-to-do and coloured wreath for the kitchen or the dining room - - A quick Christmas wreath
nice and easy-to-do wreath with fashionable colours - - A winter pine branch for Christmastime
original decoration for the main door that remember us the winter - - Handpainted Christmas panel
reindeers tell you and your guests "Merry Christmas" ... - - Welcome to our Christmas party
roses and hydrangeas on the main door - - The pannier, "La Gerla"
what we call gerla in Italy is a pannier. It is made with weaved wood; it has the shape of truncated cone (reversed and open above). In mountain it was used for carrying a lot of different materials. Fill it with Christmas ornaments: you will impression your guests!
Happy Holidays decorations
- - Christmas besom
sweep away all your troubles with this besom! our best Christmas creation - - Christmas cornucopia
fill it with pine, Christmas flowers and red berry sprays!
Christmas trees: big, little, personalized, hung on the wall ...
- - Spiral Christmas tree
a feather boa is wrapped around a wire spiral to make an unusual Christmas decoration - - Ecological Christmas tree
how to make a nice Xmas tree with material to be recycled - - New colours for your Xmas tree
Are you sick of the usual colours for your Christmas tree? We propose the new trend in these last yea rs in Italy. - - DIY Christmas balls
new and original Christmas balls to make with needle felting wool - - Golden net becomes a Christmas tree
have you ever thought about anything new? We suggest an unusual Christmas tree with different decorations. - - A christmas tree ... hung on the wall
craft with your kids to get into the holiday spirit! - - A Christmas tree with oranges
let's use natural fruits for Christmas tree! - - Christmas tree with monograms
personalize the Christmas balls with your monograms! - - Fairy Christmas tree
wood fairy decorates its Christmas tree - - A welcoming Christmas tree
place it near your main door or your shop enter ... - - A little Christmas tree with red berries
green Christmas: let's choose artificial ornaments! We can use them for many years. - - A little Christmas tree with pot pourri
use it also as centrepiece - - Very little Christmas tree
have you no space? no problem. This is a very small decoration to get into the holiday atmoshere - - Trimmed pine for Christmas
typical outdoor Italian decoration - - Felt Christmas tree
stuffed Christmas tree decorated with snow crystals
Christmas decorations for pieces of furniture
- - Decorated faggot
a bundle of twigs decorated with red velvet ribbons, golden birds and roses - - Christmas garland with velvet red ribbons
how to decorate a piece of furniture - - An unusual Christmas decoration
high-tech decoration - - A refined vase full of flowers for Christmastime
fashionable but easy-to-do Christmas decoration. It's enough a crystal vase and some silk flowers sprinkled with gold ... - - Bamboo canes and flowers
an original Christmas decoration for every piece of furniture - - The red wins
pine, red decorations ... it's Christmastime! - - Christmas flower decoration
silk roses coloured in white, cream, orange, autumn-coloured leaves ... a fashionable Christmas arrangement. - - Christmas decoration in kitchen
decorating kitchen and dining room for the holiday season - - Pot-pourri in the platter
a simple white platter becomes a beautiful Christmas decoration - - Feathers at Christmastime
a simple decoration made with a feather boa but refined and fashionable for your home
Outdoor Christmas decorations
- - Let's decorate the balcony
a beautiful decoration to adobe your balcony at Christmastime - - Let's decorate the balcony-2
a garland decorated with Christmas ornaments to hang on the wall of your balcony - - Let's decorate the balcony-3
lights, pine garland, red berry sprays ... how nice it is! Look at the video for a night sight. A nice Christmas outdoor decoration! - - Let's decorate the balcony-4
lit Christmas wreath hangs from the ceiling ... - - Decorating indoor plants
if you have no space for a Christmas tree don't worry! You can adobe an indoor plant ... - - Christmas decorations for windowsills
Christmas balls linked with a gold zig zag and fixed on the windowsill
Christmas decorations for kids: there is no better way to get into the Holidy spirit than crafting with kids!
- - Santa is tired
Santa is sitting near an indoor plant and ... your Christmas decoration is ready! - - Elk Christmas wreath
a felt elk, a little flower made in felt, a gold ribbon ... a very nice wreath! - - Christmas snowman
this nice puppet is made with polyester wadding and old clothes - - Befana on the besom
the nice old woman, Rome-style, who brings gifts to children in the Epiphany Eve made by your hands - - Handmade Christmas angels
nice little angels that you can make with the paper egg trays you have at home. You need only voile paper, wool, cotton wool ball, cleaner tools, acrylic colours and plaster.
You can find the following fashionable nice Christmas ideas in the "members-only area"
- - A glittering bundlle of kindlings
( members-only area) the perfect Christmas tree for people who like modern way of decorating their own house - - Christmas balls, jewel-style
( members-only area) in the last month we have seen a tripudium of colours and sparkling decorations in the clothes, in the shoes and in the bags in Italy. Then we thought to propose the same fashion in the Christmas balls. You could use them for decorating a little Christmas tree or for making a charming centrepiece that will impress your guests; you could decorate a wall or fill a crystal vase... - - The wreath, jewel-style
( members-only area) this Christmas wreath is made with an original technique and decorated in a sparkling way 
- - An elegant Christmas wreath
( members-only area) a pine branch decorated with refined golden ornaments - - The jewel boxes
(members-only area) making nice boxes for your precious Christmas gifts - - The Elf boxes
( members-only area) what about a secret box for your kid? Sure, this is an original Christmas gift! - - The Christmas tree in the wicker basket
(members-only area) It's an original idea by which you can adobe a little house, your office or shop window at Christmas - - Your poinsettia
(members-only area) a very refined Xmas decoration (for your house, an elegant office or a shop window) - - Silk flowers & beads
(members-only area) new Christmas decoration combining silk flowers and beads - - A precious centrepiece: flowers under the snow
(members-only area) wood flowers and fruits sprinkled with snow ... on the Christmas table - - Magnolias at Christmas
(members-only area) another very refined long and narrow Christmas decoration - - The Elf in the wood
( members-only area) another fashionable wood figure that kids love a lot - - The wicker basket decorated for Christmas
(members-only area) an original idea by which you can adobe a little house, your office or shop window - - Christmas wreath and garland ideas
( members-only area) fashionable and refined according to the Italian style - - An old lantern: the spell of Christmas
( members-only area) decorate it in different ways to impress your guests! - - The Elf Christmas tree
( members-only area) are you able to make pom-pom? make them for a fashionable Xmas tree
Setting the table at Christmas
Christmas centrepiece
- - Centrepiece with roses
a fashionable Christmas centrepiece for a refined table - - Sparkling centerpiece for Christmas
fresh flowers, Christmas ornaments and unusual colours - - Traditional Christmas centrepiece
the tradition is always the best choice - - Centrepiece with white silk roses and orchids
step-by-step instructions to male a classical Christmas centrepiece, Italian style - - Centrepiece with silk roses and ivy
for people who want a very elegant table - - White magnolias on Christmas table
golden lotus flowers, silk magnolias and leaves ... fashionable and beautiful. That's cool! - - Christmas centrepiece with rose berries
for people who like natural arrangements on the table - - Natural table ornaments at Christmas
use it all winter! - - Christmas table ornaments
new ideas on our blog
You'll be able to find the following ideas on members-only area. The're our best ideas!
- - Centrepiece with glittering flowers and Christmas balls
(members-only area) a new glittering colour for Christmas: rose! - - Centrepieces with pine branches
(members-only area) the same pine wreath: a lot of different centrepieces.
The whole Chrstmas table
- - Natural table at Christmas
do you want a Green Christmas? this is the perfect table! - - Purple Christmas table
Fashionable Christmas table with handpainted snowflakes - - Setting the Christmas table in red
the most traditional Christmas colour - - Setting the table in white
white as the snow ... very refined - - Christmas is: a sparkling table
paillettes on the table? Yes, you can - - White & gold on Christmas table
elegant, classical look - - Red & white on Christmas table
use the typical colours of Christmas for this nice table - - Gold on Christmas table
the Christmas table following the most typical traditions, Italy-style - - Christmas day in the kitchen
how to lay the table in the best way - - The Italian Christmas table
touches of colours and you have a fantastic christmas table! - - Setting the table for byrthday at Christmas
a nice way to lay the table in a special occasion on Christmastime
You'll be able to find our best ideas in the members-only area. Subscribe to this area
- - A golden refined table
(members-only area) - - A silver and blue-sky elegant Christmas table
(members-only areai) the colours are unusual but the table is very refined - - A white and golden table
(members-only area) three examples for setting up your table during Christmas according to Italian style: beauty and elegance! - - Crystal branches on the Christmas table
(members-only area) a fashionable table for an unforgettable Christmas - - The perfect Italian Christmas table
(members-only area) how to combine luxury and elegance with no errors - - Fur and lace on Christmas table
(members-only area) fashionable, new look for your Christmas table
Christmas place cards
- - Edible place cards
nice snomen and little cod puddings to mark every table place. Beautiful to see and tasty to eat! Step-by-step instructions to make these Christmas place cards
Italian Christmas recipes
First of all: Panettone recipes.
- - The panettone recipe
The reasons for making panettone at home. Is it really worth? - - The panettone recipe with fresh yeast
The fresh yeast may be a choice but remember ... this is not the right yeast. The Italian panettone is a low-rise cake to be made with sourdough. - - Spelt panettone with pineapple
Our exclusive recipe for a an healthy cake made with natural ingredients.
and then ...
- - Cold braised veal with tuna sauce

- - Caviar-flavored pasta

- - Shrimps and eggs penne

- - Stew wild boar

- - Orange-flavored turkey breasts

- - Neapolitan macaroni timbale (timpano)

- - Christmas bread with spices

- - Smoked eel
(members-only area) first course recipes, some menus for Christmas Eve with smoked eel and other refined ingredients, the website where you can buy smoked eel - - Black truffle
a collection of easy and fast recipes - - One-plate meal with venison
(members-only area) an eccellent recipe for astonishing your guests! - - one-plate meal for Christmas. You can prepare a lot of tidbits in the same serving plate made with the typical Christmas ingredients according to the Italian style (salmon, duck, truffles, chestnuts ...). You can find three different ideas in the same page: a menu based on meat, another based on fish and the third for the vegetarian people. To serve such a menu is useful for the hostess too if she has nobody who helps her in the kitchen! Think of it!
Remember: you can find many other ideas in the members-only area for succesful Italian menus!
Some Italian menus for Christmas
- - A menu full of wood flavors

- - Season's greetings menu

- - The menu

- - A cheap but tasty menu
a combination of different recipes full of taste and cheap - - A menu purchased by Internet
(members-only area) for people who like Italian food and want to prepare a Christmas menu, Italy-style - - A light menu
a menu based on low-fat recipes for Christmas - - Our Christmas menu
(members-only area) our suggestion for this year - - A traditional Italian Christmas menu from Piedmont
we suggest you some recipes for an authentic Xmas dinner party according to the Italian style - - Planning the New Year's Eve Dinner: a buffet
(members-only area) cold and hot dishes for a great party!
Italian Christmas cakes
How to decorate your home for Christmas...
Christmas decorations and trees...
Xmas menu, Italy-style?
What are the typical cakes in Italy?
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The author Loretta Sebastiani lives in Italy (IT)
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