Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Christmas Tree Decorating Ideas

You have seen lighted Christmas trees with varieties of Christmas tree ornaments such as toys, candies, baubles and nosegays hanging from its branches. Garlands, ribbons and light strands give it a magical touch. Christmas tree decorating ideas include how to keep your tree fresh till Christmas day and making it look special and unique at the same time.

Here are some tips that you can use:

Keep refilling lukewarm water in the tree stand frequently to keep the real tree fresh for longer period of time. At first, you may have to refill the stand quite frequently and the need tapers down slowly. You will know when to refill from the water level in the stand.

Spray the needles with the wilt resistant spray to keep them fresh for several weeks.

The decorations of the tree include lights, garlands and ribbons, and finally ornaments, holiday nosegays, candies, fruits and other decorations.

Arrange the lights from innermost branches to outside and from top to bottom for safety purposes.

Place garlands and ribbons to provide a finishing touch to your tree.

Mix special and more expensive ornaments with cheaper ones to make a greater impact. These special ornaments can include, bird nests, painted fruits, music notes, toy alphabets, costume jewelry pieces and other such things that can be used with candies, cookies, baubles, berries, glittery boughs and pinecones.

Filler and special ornaments can be placed on tips of boughs. Put some inside the branches too, to add depth to Christmas tree decorations.

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