CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS BY FIONA CUMMINGS

If you don’t have room in your house for a tree why not get a glass

dish, bowls or glass vases, then buy a bumper pack of baubles try to stick with the same colour for a cohesive look and add in a few interesting shapes and textures. Neatly add battery lights to give a little extra sparkle. But keep the battery pack easy to access so you can change them. I must say, now days, the batteries in those lights seem to last quite a while. But when you put them away, remove the batteries. So that next year you don’t find they have gone off as batteries unused do go bad. You can buy all red if you have red baubles for example or blue if you have blue. If you pick a colour that you can’t find matching lights, then stick with white. I have also seen pink and purple battery lights.

 

Another idea is to hang baubles to flowers if you have a vase of artificial ones already. Or, if you have a real tree, then cut some of the back branches that you are not really going to see. Using wire fasten the baubles to your ferns and you again can if you wish add battery lights.

 

Welcome your guests even if you only see your delivery man at Christmas. On a small table next to your door, have some candles may be, or a potted Christmas plant and may be a couple of Christmas ornaments? Tinsel around table legs?

 

If I had an open staircase, I would wrap lights around the rails using bluetac as Sellotape will remove the paint.

 

You can put a garland around your rail putting in ribbons and may be unbreakable Christmas decorations such as toys for the tree?

 

The banister is also a good place to hang your Christmas stocking if you don’t have a fire place. I put ours on the bedroom door handles, just to help Santa out…

 

I also have one of those what they call wires. They are, like a copper wire it flashes blue lights but you can get red and white may be other colours too. They are battery powered and last for ages. I have them from one end to the other fastened on my tieback hooks. And outside you can have a nice red plant pot with may be a small conifer in with pinecones around it and again you can get outdoor battery or solar powered lights to either go around the plant pot or tree.