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A holiday centerpiece would
make a wonderful focal point or main decoration for Thanksgiving, Christmas,
Hanukkah, New Year’s and other holiday occasions. You can place the centerpiece
on your table, entryway table or other large area or space.
Plus there are limitless
ways to make your centerpiece special. You can mix-and-match festive objects
you have around your house with materials from a craft or fabric store and even
add them to wonderful creations from online stores. Then design and create
coordinating pieces for nearby countertop or the mantle over the fire place,
front porch or other area.
Some mix-and-match ideas include:
Fall Vegetables
Begin with a pumpkin and
gourds. Loosely arrange them on the table or mantle. Set a natural-color candle
on each side of your display. Finish your free form art center piece by
sprinkling colorful fall leaves all over and around your center pieces. Make
sure they are not too close to the candles, of course.
Fall ... Winter Leaves ...
Berries
Simply find a large glass
bowl and fill it with beautiful fall leaves or holly leaves and berries. Set a
candle on each side of the bowl to showcase the leaves. Then, cut leaf shapes
out of construction paper and use them as place cards. Of course you could also
press small leaves, and glue them to a plain white place card.
Floral Display of Abundance
Make a dried floral
arrangement from fall and winter flowers. Gather some of the plastic sticks
that the florists use to hold notecards. Stick them
into the floral display, but put photos of the things you are thankful for in
them, instead. Or, if you don’t have photos, just write words on notecards and display them in the floral arrangement. Some
words you may start with are “family”, “friends”, “food”, “laughter”.
Carve A
Pumpkin
Yes, you heard right, carve
a pumpkin. Of course you don’t want to go with the traditional jack-o-lantern
design here. Instead carve some geometrical designs, or some flowers,
leaf-shapes etc. on your hollowed out pumpkin. Add a candle inside the carved
pumpkin and light it just before your guests arrive.
Get some small pumpkins,
Christmas or other candle holders and tiny candles to use with them. Group of few of these candle holders together for a festive center
piece. Finish your candle arrangement with a few pieces of native corn
or festive ornaments placed around your holiday candle holders. Give the
arrangement more dimension by using different size
pumpkins, ornaments and candles. Use some scented candles to give your room
that
Dig through your holiday
supplies or take a stroll through your local craft store and you will come up
with your own versions of these suggestions, or even a creation all your own.
Check out books from your
local library for more ideas to decorate your home and business environment.
You can make your own centerpieces and coordinating decorations or visit fun
shops online. It’s as simple as that!
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