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Christmas Tree Place Cards Dress up your home for the holidays with distinctive handmade decoration ideas from 20 years of Martha Stewart Living.Adorn your holiday table with mini Christmas trees made from basic backyard branches and small sprigs of greenery.Martha Stewart Living, 1998/1999 How to Make the Christmas Tree Place Cards Create a striking outdoor lighting display by wrapping wire wreath forms with white mini lights and stringing the "shooting stars" between several trees.Martha Stewart Living, 2007 How to Make the Shooting Stars Glittered Deer Table Decorations Transform inexpensive plastic toys into sparkling tabletop decor with a little glitter and craft glue.Martha Stewart Living, 2003 How to Make the Glittered Deer Table Decorations Put bright, colorful cranberries to use outside of the kitchen as a flower frog; they will hold stems in place for about a week.Martha Stewart Living, 1995/1996 How to Make the Cranberry Flower Frog
How to Make the Evergreen Bobeches Add some seasonal style to any room with a glowing centerpiece made from pinecones and plastic flowers on specialty string lights.Martha Stewart Living, 2009 How to Make the Lighted Pinecone Arrangement
large outdoor christmas decorations sale Kids will want to help craft these whimsical angel place cards, made with a little creative cutting and folding of basic paper plates.
wedding decorations for outdoorsMartha Stewart Living, 2000 How to Make the Paper-Plate Angels Give your Christmas tree a dramatic finishing touch with a shimmering star topper coated in silver glitter and outlined with wired tinsel roping.Martha Stewart Living, 1998 How to Make the Glittery Star Basic Bundt pans packed with snow give shape to this one-of-a-kind outdoor lighting idea.
How to Make the Snow Lanterns Prepare to pucker up beneath a decorative ball made of mistletoe, beads, wire, and velvet ribbon.Martha Stewart Living, 2001 How to Make the Mistletoe Ball Reminiscent of woven tapestries, and suggestive of the Victorian era, these ingrain carpet stockings have a thick, textured feel. For a similar effect, try using remnants from a worn blanket or shawl.Martha Stewart Living, 1995 How to Make the Carpet Stockings Lattice Fence and Evergreen Bough Window Boxes Fill lattice-weave baskets with evergreen boughs and holly branches for a rustic outdoor display. A wide red ribbon completes the festive look.Martha Stewart Living, 1999 How to Make the Lattice Fence and Evergreen Bough Window BoxesFrom twinkling fairy lights and pretty decorations to the most covetable gifts, John Lewis has everything you need for a picture perfect Christmas.But the value supermarket Aldi is making a play for the department store's customers this festive season, by offering look-a-like versions of some of its most popular products - at far lower prices.
Aldi has unveiled decorations, lighting and even hot water bottles with striking similarities to items being sold at John Lewis - including a virtually identical copper pan that costs almost £90 less at the supermarket. Take me to church: John Lewis, left, and Aldi, right, both stock wooden Christmas decorations Snug: The department store's hot water bottle (left) is £15. Aldi's look-a-like (right) is £3.99The German chain, which recently caused a flurry of speculation online when people were fooled into thinking its #KevintheCarrot campaign teaser was a preview of the hotly anticipated John Lewis Christmas ad, is going all out to get customers' attention this festive season. Shoppers can do their decorating courtesy of the German chain, which stocks a festive holly topiary ball for £7.99 - a basic spruce wreath at John Lewis will set customers back £15.Aldi also offers an homage to the department store's £20 light-up wooden cathedral, in the shape of its £9.99 wooden church decoration, and sells twig-effect festive lights similar to John Lewis' £35 version for less than £10.
This candle arch from the department store (left) costs £15. Aldi's similar take (right) is £9.99Twig style lighting for Christmas, left, costs £35. Aldi's costs less than £10 Get festive: A basic wreath from John Lewis, left, costs £15. Aldi's holly ball, right, is £7.99 A wooden advent calendar from John Lewis, left, costs £40. Aldi's, right, costs £8.99The department store's £15 knitted hot water bottles - perfect for cosy, Christmas nights in - also look uncannily similar to some that have popped up at Aldi for £3.99. Aldi's new wooden advent calendar costs £8.99, compared with £40 for John Lewis' wooden version. It has also just introduced a new range of five festive hampers for 2016, including its ultimate Exquisite Hamper, which costs £98.37 and includes wine, Christmas pudding, truffles, champagne, biscuits and luxury chocolates. The Seasonal Sophistication hamper from John Lewis, which holds its own versions of the above - albeit in greater quantities - is £250.
The supermarket has given some thought to what goes under the tree, too, unveiling a new set of stylish copper pans that any keen cook would love to unwrap on Christmas morning, and that bear an uncanny resemblance to a range sold at John Lewis. This copper stockpot, part of Aldi's new cookware range, costs £34.99 A similar product from a copper cookware set sold at John Lewis costs £125 The full set of Aldi's copper pans (pictured) costs £159.95, compared to £470 at John LewisThe new copper pans - similar to those used by everyone from Nigella Lawson to Kylie Jenner - are popular because they heat up faster than conventional saucepans, which cuts down on cooking time. 16cm Saucepan: £19.9918cm Saucepan: £29.9924cm Copper Stockpot: £34.9928cm Sauté Pan: £34.9935cm Copper Roaster: £39.99 16cm Saucepan: £7518cm Saucepan: £8524cm Copper Casserole Dish: £12528cm Sauté Pan: £11535cm Copper Roaster: £70 Aldi shoppers can also get their hands on a copper stockpot, a sauté pan, and a Tri-ply copper roaster tray, all of which are significantly cheaper than equivalent items at John Lewis.
Some products in the new Aldi range can be picked up for as little as £3.99, including copper kitchen tools. Last year Aldi triggered a Christmas tree price war when it unveiled a real 6ft Nordman fir for just £19.99. Trees are not yet available from the Aldi website for the coming Christmas, but a 6ft Nordman fir costs £75 at John Lewis. WHAT OTHER LUXURY-FOR-LESS ITEMS CAN YOU BUY AT ALDI? Aldi's most expensive hamper costs £98 (pictured) and rivals department store versionsThis week, Aldi took on luxury retailers by launching its first range of five premium hampers. Ranging from under £20 to nearly £100, the prices are considerably lower than the wicker basket gift sets on offer at John Lewis and other department stores. Its most expensive hamper costs £98 and includes champagne, truffles and vintage port. WAGYU BEEF In August, the discount supermarket once again stocked the world's most expensive beef for a limited time.It sold rump steaks for just £4.99 each, whereas the same-sized steak at Ocado sets customers back £19.99.
It's not the first time Aldi has sold cut-price wagyu, either. Two years ago, it tried to lure in the middle classes with a steak for £6.99. But in recent years, it has lowered its prices even further. Aldi sells luxury truffles (pictured) for just £4.99 LUXURY TRUFFLESHigh end department store truffle collections can cost as much as £25, so Aldi's £4.99 version - wrapped in very similar turquoise packaging - is a comparitive steal. CHAMPAGNEChampagne isn't exactly known for being affordable, but at Aldi, a bottle is within everyone's reach.Its Veuve Monsigny Champagne Brut is on sale for only £9.99.It describes the fizz as being 'aged in cellars to enhance its complexity, elegance and length, and offers a sparkling mix of refreshingly zingy lemon and sweet honey flavours'. Aldi will sell truffled brie for just £4.99 from December 12 for Christmas Truffles and brie are two luxurious ingredients that we might only buy at special occasions. But the two have combined in one product at Aldi - for just £4.99.The deluxe cheese - which could be perfect for a cheeseboard - is available from December 12.