Festive Holiday Decorating  End tables, shelves and mantels
- Spell "Merry Christmas" with alphabet blocks. Decorate with greenery. - Tie red bows around stuffed bears and animals. Dress with caps and scarves. Place small wrapped packages or candy canes in their hands. - Hang a collection of stockings-even if you don't stuff. - String dried fruit and berries together and tack to shelf edge. - Put bookends away and tie a wide ribbon with a bow around a stack of books. - Dress baby dolls in the outfits your children wore home from the hospital. - Trim shelves or mantel with garland. Tie on Christmas cards or pictures from Christmas past. - Fill watering can with greens and decorate with wired stars. - Fill basket with pinecones or ornaments. - Fill a bowl with clove-studded oranges and greens. - Decorate with old toys-wagons, doll houses, trucks, sleds, etc. Decorate with holly, greenery sprigs, Christmas picks or small pinecones. - Make bouquets of holly, laurel, greenery or candy canes. Place in a container. Wrap bow around container. - Put a pretty Christmas book on a plate stand. - Spray real fruit with gold paint and place in a bowl. Or brush thinned glue on the fruit and sprinkle with Epsom salt. - Tie a ribbon around a tall clear drinking glass. Fill with candy canes. - Place ornaments or beads in a clear glass bowl, tall vase or hurricane lamp. - Add a plywood top to an end table to make it bigger. Place Christmas table cloth or quilt over the top. - Fill small jars with water and add sprig of greenery. Use food dye to dye water red or green. - Place tree top finales in the top of a pedestal candlestick. - Open picture family Bible to a Christmas picture. Set on coffee table. Candles
- Change all candles to red, green, white, silver or gold. - Tie festive ribbon around candle. (Keep away from the flame). Or tear strips of homespun and make a bow-keep away from flame and use drip less candles. - Decorate a pillar candle to represent each year of marriage. Light every Christmas eve. - Hallow out apples, pears, oranges or artichokes. Place votive candle inside. (Make hallow only big enough to hold candle.) - Spray tiny terra cotta pots gold. Place candles inside. - Floating candle: Fill quart jar with greenery. Add cranberries. Fill with water and add a floating candle on top. - Fill quart jar or a vase half-full with hard Christmas candy. Insert a tapered candle. - Fill a clear vase half-full with tiny ornaments and insert candle. - Place candles in clay pots. Fill space around candle with greenery or berries. - Set votive candles in a clay pot saucer. Fill around with Epsom salt. Plants
- Group plants together and tie a Christmas ribbon around the pots. - String lights or tie tiny ornaments on large houseplants. - String Christmas ribbon through a wire planter. - Tie little red balls to eucalyptus or rosemary plant. - Don't forget Christmas blooms- poinsettias, amaryllis or Christmas cactus. - Decorate poinsettia by weaving gold stars in the branches or sprinkling gold glitter over. Tie a bow to the pot. Wall hangings
- Hang stockings on the wall with small packages, teddy bears or a sprig of greenery peeking out. - Replace frames with cheap frames you have sprayed red, green, silver or gold. - Make cardboard frames and wrap with Christmas fabric or paper. Or remove pictures and wrap your current frames with wrapping paper and replace frame. - Gift wrap the whole picture with wrapping paper and a big bow. - Frame montage of Christmas past photos. - Frame Christmas cards. - Tape bright ribbon across the corners of picture frames. - "Frame" wall art with garland. Tie a bow to a corner. - Replace wall art with a wreath. - Fill wall scones with berries and greenery. - Remove picture, glass and back. Hang a wreath in the middle of the frame. - Replace pictures with printed out sheets of Christmas carols. Decorate with sprigs of greenery. Can antique sheet music-if desire-by brushing with cooled strong tea. Iron the music sheet first so ink won't bleed.  Please post your ideas for Christmas on the Holiday Message Board Thank-you to J. S. Magic for the graphics
Thanks Dynamic Drive for no right click script.
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