Christmas Crafts-Adorning a Living Christmas Tree or any Other Tree With More Than Just Lights

By taking your common indoor/outdoor light strand and combining it with some light colored plastic ornaments, you can make your house the envy of the neighborhood during the Christmas holiday season with a unique and festive light garland that most folks would not have even considered putting together. 

You will want to start out by prepping your ornaments first.  If you don’t have any that can be spared for this project, you should be able to find starter craft making ornaments at any of your better craft stores or online.  You want to drill a hole large enough on opposite sides of each other on every ornament to be able to feed your strand of lights through, but not so large that the lights easily fall out.  You can make a pilot hole to get started with a smaller drill bit.

Then, just feed your strand of lights through each ornament, evenly spacing however many you made to give a nice coverage to the tree.  I decided to not go overboard, since these were larger size ornaments, and my Leyland Cypress they’d be hanging on might not take too kindly to so much weight.  I spread 16 ornaments over the 5 foot tree.  That’s it.  Hang and enjoy your festive light garland, and store it away as is for the off season ready to hang again next year.  You may want to try using a multi-display type of light strand to vary the light show.

Supplies:

Single plug indoor/outdoor clear Christmas lights (Make sure your single strand will be sufficient for your size tree) Solid color plastic ornaments (must be white or very light colored so light can shine through) Drill gun (Don’t get scared-it’s only a power tool) Drill bit (9/32 size)

Just Christmas Time

There is no doubt that Christmas is, for a lot of people, one of the most joyous times of the year. It seems as though Christmas is sometimes removed from the normal order of things and it is required that people are courteous and happy just because it is a day that only occurs once a year. Well, if you are interested in having a great Christmas Eve and Day this year, there are some really easy ideas to make it a huge success.

The first thing to do – and for sure the most common tip in the history of holidays – is to get all of the preparations are done beforehand. Hosts who have to have the preparations done at the last minute are going to have no enjoyment as they cannot participate in the celebrations. Make sure that all of the preparations are done at least one day before the arrival of the first guests and ideally even earlier, is something that you should do if you host this year’s Christmas festivity. Presents, decorations, drinks and food are things that can be ready 24 hours before the party. Of course, anything hot can be cooked the day of the celebration. These tasks take invariably more time than you think at first and for this reason you need to be very careful in how you go about doing them. Take a breath as soon as they are finished – the earlier, the best.

Trying to gather together as many family and friends as possible for the Christmas party is an additional way to have a very happy Christmas celebration. Actually, few people enjoy big parties that bring together a lot of guests as they think that big parties can be impersonal; however, there is no better feeling than hosting a Christmas celebration where everyone you love is under the same roof. It is also a good way to create marvelous Christmas memories that last for a lifetime. Ensure you to send the invitations early so that you make certain that your guests have no other plans for the Christmas Eve or Day.

Of course, these are only simple things that seem not important to you but that can truly help make your Christmas Eve or Day a great celebration. To further enhance your Christmas party, add to this list of ideas other little things, such a lottery, stories for children, a musical background, etc. I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!