A time when wonderful memories are made, of spending time with loved ones, giving and receiving gorgeous gifts, eating fabulous food and filling your home with the wonderment of Christmas.
So let’s decorate! Where do we start?
Breathtaking Baubles: Wonderful as decorations not only on your Christmas tree but on gifts, as table decorations, the list is endless. They come in every colour you could ever wish for. Fill your biggest and loveliest glass or crystal bowls and vases with a mix of your pretty balls. Keep the colour flowing with beaded wire or wide ribbon placed trailing around your containers or along a table runner.
Catch a Colour: Your home need not be all glitter and glam. Why not choose a colour theme to decorate with. Teal and chocolate is the latest trend to emerge this Christmas. If sparkle is for you, keep it simple with just one colour. Go for gold. Set the scene for a glamorous Christmas. Or perhaps a silver service suits you better. Why fight tradition. Red, green and gold never dates.
Garlands have come back into fashion. So you don’t have a mantelpiece to show off your garlands and treasured decorations, never fear, garlands can be strung along curtain tracks, along balustrades, and as a centre-piece on your tables.
Lustrous Lights: We instantly think of the enormous array of fairy and fibre-optic lights available on the market. Candles come in pretty high on the list for decorations, creating that special ambient mood, but it’s how we display them that can be a point of difference. The good old hurricane lamp has become fashionable again. They can be hung or sat around your home and are ideal for outside, hung from trees. So display your candles, big and small, in candelabras, tall stemmed wine glasses and stunning tea light and votive holders. Scented floating candles placed in glorious glass bowls along with your favourite flowers, can really make a statement as a table centrepiece.
Name tags: A necessity for gifts though optional for place settings. Individualize your gifts with unique handmade tags. Write your guest’s name using a glitter pen on a glass bauble and tie around a napkin. Tie pretty paper cards to the stem of your wine glasses – this doubles as your place setting name then when you leave the table you’ll always pick up the right glass. Personalized Christmas stockings hanging from the backs of chairs can not only hold your guest’s gift but let them know where they’ll be seated.
If time doesn’t permit for you to decorate your home, greet your guests with a festive mood displayed at your entrance. First impressions can be lasting impressions. Simply showing off your Christmas cards can be an instant and easy way to decorate. Why not just decorate your dinner table. Whenever you can, take your Christmas entertaining outdoors to enhance your festive feasting even more. Set your table up in a shady cool spot.
So pick a theme and have a ball (or should I say bauble).
To all my readers, may you all be inspired to rejoice in the spirit of Christmas, share memories with loved ones and enjoy. Merry Christmas.
Leanne J Zielke
Colour Design Consultant
Accent on Colour 0413 009 380
Andersons Curtains 4151 5757
