Top Tips for all things Christmas!
Going into the finer detail with Tops Tips to embellish your Tree, Home, Front Door and Present Wrapping to its max!
The All-Important Tree!
December’s magic in the air means Christmas tree choosing… and more importantly sprucing. Whatever your style, whatever your space your tree should exude excitement to come home every day during the best month of the year!
If your budget or living room requires restraint, a small tree can be elevated to look taller on a wooden box, with the foot and base wrapped in a pretty table cloth you already have. Colour co-ordinate to your colour theme of choice. Alternatively work your decorations to the table cloth you have. Wrap it with volume and tuck in the bottom!
Add vases at the foot, fill them with pine cones, ferns, fresh or dried flowers. This will add interest from the lack of presents at the beginning of the month! And as your shopping progresses start embellishing the base of the Tree with beautifully wrapped presents!
Doorscaping!
2020 is the year of front-of-the-house! Dark foreboding entrances have been replaced by polite, chic and inviting entrances taking things one step further…
Your basic front garden has never looked so pretty… well placed mirrors, dried flowers, baubles and twinkle lights placed in ‘hurricane candle holders’ by your front door add a welcoming touch. Check out @ottoandivyinteriors to see beautiful examples!
We are talking modern yet elegant and surprising feathered wreaths adorning door frames, pine cone garlands, traditional or bright and sprayed in modern colours.
Christmas is now very personal. Why? Because we have been starved of identity. We have never been shy so Make this Christmas Yours!
Present Wrapping Tips!
Only buy pretty ribbon that is wire edged to have control of the final look.
Match your paper to your ribbons or vis-a-versa. Pick a theme and stick to it with accents and colour pop and personal touches to each recipient giving depth and variation and surprise before the actual present is discovered!
Dried fruit bought or baked, finely sliced, in your oven and covered in cinnamon add an extra touch of excitement as that childhood scent of Christmas attacks your senses on all fronts!
Mini Christmas baubles or pine cones you collect or buy, can be worked into your wrapping by attaching them with some ribbon to the bow before it has been tied! Of course, if you have any leftovers entwine them with garlands on your mantelpiece or around candles on your dinner table.
Leaves collected from the park can be sprayed in silver or gold! Add them to your presents with a needle and thread with the recipient’s name written in silver pen
Personalise it! Think before you wrap… Is your father-in-law an avid bird watcher? Add a clip-on robin to the bow! Is your mother in-law’s perfume a certain smell? Buy some essence drops and sprinkle them on her wrapping or dry her particular flower and tie it into the ribbon! Does your stepson love fire and exploding things… they all do of a certain age!! ... attach - very well wrapped child proof - sparklers for you to light together and write his name in the sky to create interactive moments to remember together.
Even on budgets your recipient will automatically have that magic excitement!