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Italian Christmas tree decorating ideas
It's not Christmas without a Christmas tree. When we open the box with all the old ornaments to decorate our pine tree and house, it is always a moment of joy. Holiday season is coming! But if it's nice to exhibit again everything that has always been with us, it's also gratifying to add something new or even change the look of our Christmas tree, using the old ornaments for other home decorations. Look at all our craft ideas to make.
Useful tips if you have to start from scratch
Christmas trees may be of different shape and size. The new needs of space have often required alternative choices in recent years.
So now there are also half trees on the wall or so small trees they can be put on a table. On the contrary there are upside down pines, on the wall or hanging from the ceiling for large areas.
Pine trees can be green in the tradition, snowy or frost according to the latest fashion, black, white, mustard yellow, brown, red, even pink and blue ...
Decorations are now endless. There are not only the classic balls. Now you can choose among feathers, flowers, houses, butterflies, gnomes, fairies or wooden, crystal or stuffed animals ...
The colors are dizzying: all white, pink and silver, blue and green, red and gold (the best), brown ... But the most beautiful, especially if you have children, is Christmas tree that tells a story or plays with them.
On this page you can find many new ideas!
What kind of D.I.Y. Christmas tree decorating ideas are you looking for?
The new trends in Italy
How to decorate snowy leafless Christmas tree
If you have little time to decorate your house for Christmas, here's a simple and quick to do idea. You need a leafless tree, little balls and a LEd string lights.
It's difficult to decorate a white pine. Do you agree? I do not like the combination white and red. And pink? what about it?
What about it? It is very beautiful according to me, isn't it? This spiral tree with fashionable colors and few decorations is minimalist. It's already a real ornament by itself with very few balls. A feather boa forms a spiral around anything! Joking aside, creating it is much easier than you might think ;)
This page is a guide for all people who want to decorate their Christmas tree with white ornaments. What to do and what is best not to do.
I assembled my pine tree in 8 different ways to show you better my opinion and experience.
D.I.Y. Christmas balls
How to decorate the old family pine in a new way
For people who love natural ornaments. I also suggests how to dry oranges in this page. Once the Holidays are over, oranges can be placed in the separate waste collection but in the meantime you have perfumed your house especially during their preparation ;)
Colored berries are traditionally associated with winter and Christmas. It's easy to see them on a pine tree. Place cotton wool or artificial snow too to simulate snow. If you choose berries in different color the tree has different colors depending on the angle from which you look at and it is very charming.
In modern houses space is often very limited and you must have imagination to create beautiful decorations. These bead strings are easily made by hand. The beads I used are cheap but very colorful.
Tell the truth, this is very unusual here's a DIY ornament you can make with your leftovers of wool: nice pom-poms. What about it?
The DIY tree for adult and expert hands
Handmade little tree with pot pourri
The materials I used are quite common: foam cone, berries in different colors and then pot pourri to put around. A sweet decoration for all your pieces of furniture. All done strictly by hand.
Felt little tree with snow crystals
This is an idea for sewers and lovers of crafts with felted wool. Ideal for people who like simple, not glittered decorations, in harmony with nature.
When the shape is very different from the classic pine
A little trimmed pine tree in a pot can be decorated at low cost. It takes up little space and is ideal for your front door or to embellish the entrance door of a store or a office. Even better if you have a couple of them.
DIY Holiday Tree in the truest sense of the word! You'll need: a floral foam ball, another floral foam for the base, a bamboo pole, flowers, berries, holly ... whatever your fancy suggests. Fine way to decor your entrance, hall or even shop or office.
This is a new idea that we Italians look a lot in the houses, offices, shops ... If it is well decorated, it is very nice to see ;)
If you have an old basket (it is also very easy to buy it in a wicker shop) it may be a good idea adobe it with winter flowers, leaves and fruits.
Imaginative, elegant and, above all, different from the usual, right?
A beautiful golden net forms a spiral and accommodates unique roses as ornaments. What do you think about?
Children's craft ideas
Easy to do ornaments, games and fairy tales
Our Christmas trees for kids are really very special. They can be decorated with very easy to do ornaments (especially paper, glue, beads or other materials easily handled by their hands) or they are related to a game or a fairy tale.
Author: Loretta Sebastiani
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