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When we came to live in the UK we started 'doing' christmas. Previously we had been with relatives for christmas, so never did anything in our own home. Mum made a load of christmas decs to hang around the house. Wreaths, streamers, christmas tree bits and bobs.
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green streamers were decorated every meter with red bows or clusters of gold sprayed thistles and other 'wooden' weeds that could be collected from the local countryside. They were then hung up the banisters of the stairs, over the fire place or in other similar places.
Each year we made more decorations all in keeping with Mum's red and gold theme.
The main christmas tree decoration were these doves that she made out of card, covered in glitter and hung with gold ribbon. They had gold wings that were just gold paper fanned and then fed through a slit in the body shape.
We often went around the countryside and collected bits of weeds that were slightly 'stick like' or pine cones. They would then be sprayed with gold spray paint and arrange them in clusters on wreaths, in other decorations and and just by themselves in a basket.
One year I made a table centrepiece at school in art class. It was a tiered affair. Each tier was made by a piece of cardboard, held up by a stick through the middle, filled with pieces of fir tree branches and decorated with little coloured flowers made out of tissue paper. (round circles scrunched up).
Sometime after I left home I had a piece of driftwood and someone said to me why not add some spray paint and dried flowers to it. I did. It was incredible, I also added a candle since it was appropraitely flat in one part and Mum used it for years.
Stained glass windows out of black card and different coloured cellophane are very effective and simple too.
It is easy to make stars, snowmen, snowscenes, snowflakes and so on to decorate bedrooms and christmas trees and the best thing is that all these things are relatively cheap to make and can be made to any colour scheme at all.
There are billions of things that are easy to make and not with much mess either. I hope that you enjoy any creations yuo make.
Peace
EF.x 
(October 2006) (
