I’m seeing the simplest, most beautiful Christmas decorations lately. Have you begun decorating? I haven’t but I am getting close. I’ll be waiting until after Thanksgiving, but when I do, it’ll be nice to do so with a glass of red wine and some Vince Guaraldi on. Here’s a few of my favorites:
These sweet wooden trees that will take you well beyond just Christmas
All of these anglaspels–all of them; I own one and it is a favorite Christmas decoration. Such a wonderful teacher, hostess, whomever gift too. They also have the best, most beautiful collection of Nativity scenes on the entire internet.
These wooden bead garlands that would also look so nice as part of a table setting.
The olive leaf and myrtle garland shown above
Beautiful holiday wrapping paper–uncoated, so recycleable!
This Christmas light up house series with a Scandinavian simplicity. And these similar ones, on sale. I’d love them with twinkly lights behind them.
These simple wooden candle tapers… I’d love them with a grassy green candlestick.
Bottlebrush trees in the best colors. The winter green ones!
Whimsical wooden trees that have a Who-ville way about them. They can be purchased separately too.
Sweetest wooden ornaments–it would have been fitting to name this post “Bridget loves wooden Christmas trees”
Christmas beeswax candles in different colors, scented with essential oils. I love these.
Some DIY I’m planning on this Christmas:
A really sweet Advent calendar. I’m ordered teeny envelopes, and plan on grabbing some greens, using twine I already have, and weaving this into our homeschool day.
Drying oranges–both for a garland and for holiday simmers on the stove
Advent calendar, book form! Sharing more than one Reading My Tea Leaves links here, but Erin really does such a good job with this stuff. For the ones we don’t own ourselves, I will be taking these out at the library and wrapping them–returning when we’re done! Not planning on purchasing every single one. Happy to have a decent Christmas book collection here though to make up at least a handful of the December days!
Making paper lunch bag stars — easy, simple, pretty.
Planning on reading this throughout the Christmas season with the boys while we drink a lot of this.
Some really nice eco-friendly wrapping ideas. I love the plain Kraft paper (or shopping bags you have lying around), and a piece of greenery taped down. Paper tape — a lot of other tapes have plastic particles in them.
What are some Christmas traditions, decorations, or DIYs you are loving these days? Christmas-y links I should know about? Please share!
For the second year we are doing the book/coloring advent calendar from Everyday Reading. My kids love having a new (one we already own or from the library) Christmas book waiting for them each day and filling in the scene.
Truly love all these ideas. What should I do with all the non recyclable wrapping paper shoved under my bed?
Those papers bag stars are happening for sure!
I love the look of plain kraft paper too! Something so classy about it 🙂
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My daughters love simple and “old fashioned” things. We did plain kraft paper for her wrapping paper on her birthday and it was so beautiful.
I’m thinking hard to come up some new things to do this year in light of Covid. We won’t be doing some of our normal traditions – Santa train ride, the Christmas Village in Philly. We do an Advent calendar every year and I alternate small pieces of chocolate with fun traditions like craft day or piling up in the car with hot cocoa and driving around to see neighborhood light displays. I also like to add in an act of service or two along the way.
The best DIY decoration is using any leftover bottom branches from cutting down your Christmas tree (if you’re the cutting live tree down type) to make arrangements in vases. Plop the branches in with some faux red berry branches (or real if you can find them at Trader Joes’) and you’ve got yourself a festive bit of greenery in your house.
Just threw a bunch of money at Heirloom Art Co. – thanks!