xmas decoration ideas

Create your own customized flower composition by covering coffee cans with wrapping paper and embellishing them with ribbon. Fill with inexpensive white carnations and babys breath, plus evergreens cut from your yard.

Using Scrabble game tiles, spell out a seasonal message. Place on a platter and accent with ornaments, fresh greens, nuts, berries or ribbons.

Create a pyramid of solid color ball ornaments on top of a compote. Use a hot glue gun or scrapbooking glue dots to adhere ball ornaments to each other. Fill in with loose evergreens. To complete the look, top candlesticks and votive holders with matching ball ornaments.

Make a mini tree the focal point of the dinner table. For a simple, dreamy look, use a white artificial tree. Anchor it in a tin pail and adorn with white lights and paper stars or other all white ornaments.

Recycle Christmas bulbs as a quick centerpiece. Place a single pillar candle in a glass dish and fill in with festive color lights.

Create a white Christmas using inexpensive glass cylinders from a crafts store. Place one cylinder inside a larger one, then sprinkle a dusting of fake snow between the two and nestle a sprig of greenery on top of the snow. Add a pillar candle or battery operated candle inside the center cylinder. Group different size cylinders for your display.

Enliven basic glass vases with Christmas color scrapbooking papers. Simply cut papers to fit around the vases and secure with double sided tape. Tie red string (with silver bells attached) around the vases and insert winter bouquets.

Foot high yew trees, with root balls nestled in moss, look fresh lined up in a galvanized tray. Anchor with white and purple eggplants for an all natural centerpiece.

Turn holiday theme scrapbooking papers into an inexpensive tabletop display. Cut and fold papers to create simple cone trees of different sizes. Secure seams with double sided tape.

For a low centerpiece, fill a tray with moss and votive candles in holiday holders.