/ on this server. Your technical support key is: 7af8-c980-1756-6707 and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.Christmas Trees & Decorations, Guest Blogs, Holiday Planning, Spirit of Christmas, Traditions, Uncategorized How Much Electricity Do Your Christmas Lights Use?   One of my favorite movies of all time is Christmas Vacation and every time I watch it I always wonder how much it cost to light up all those Christmas lights! Understanding how much electricity Christmas lights use will help you to plan which lights will Christmas Around the World, Christmas Trees & Decorations, Holiday Planning, Spirit of Christmas, Top, Traditions Real Tree or Fake Tree, That is the Question! As Christmas approaches, people’s thoughts turn to buying presents, arranging to visit family and getting a Christmas tree. For many individuals, it doesn’t really feel like the holidays until a tree is put up, and decorating the tree is a tradition for numerous families.

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Use plenty of green. Christmas can be stressful because there is so Take inspiration from our themed trees embellished with garlands, ornaments, and tree toppers. Kevin Sharkey punctuated this 10-foot-high flocked tree with golden glass balls, then added new and vintage glass icicles. Cut felt serves as a tree-skirt-cum-snowdrift. Textured and touchable, appealing and approachable, everything on this tree will call out to a child's curious hands and heart. Best of all, nothing is too delicate or fragile. How to Make the Woodland Ornaments Heavenly Tree with Angels and Stars Up the elegance of this year's evergreen with beautiful celestial symbols. Delicate silvery angels flit among hand-tied ribbon stars. How to Make the Heavenly Tree with Angels and Stars Instead of store-bought trimmings, dress your tree with what it might have worn outside -- pinecones. How to Make the Pinecone Christmas Tree Forget the electric lights, make your room shine with an aluminum tree filled with removable branches and a central trunk.

Decorate with balls and swags in one or two colors. Colorful ornaments stand out against the dense branches of a Nordmann fir. This one has a vintage tree fence and a mound of fake snow at its base. The decorations include popcorn garlands, popcorn balls, and layered felt animals. How to Make the Children's Tree Japanese-lantern ornaments provide a pleasing change of scale on this artificial bonsai, but the crowning glories of this tree are the birds -- coated in glitter and grouped in flocks of like colors. How to Make the Asian-Inspired Christmas Tree An entire village of gingerbread houses adorns this tree, creating tempting trimmings. The windows and doors have been crafted from dough that is different from the facades -- the lighter one is sweetened with honey, the darker with molasses -- to provide contrast. How to Make Gingerbread Cookies A Red and White Tree Consider a monochromatic scheme. For this tree, we used only red and white ornaments to create a festive display.

With its boughs pruned, this Norway spruce can accommodate twice as many ornaments. Ribbon attached to wire lets ornaments hang securely from branches while unifying the color scheme. How to Trim a Tree In both Ukrainian and German lore, the tale of the Christmas spider explains the origin of tinsel. The story tells of a poor widow who couldn't buy fancy gifts for her children or decorations for their tree. One Christmas Eve, she decorated a tree as best she could with fruits and nuts. After she went to sleep, spiders came out and crawled over the tree, leaving their webs behind. When Father Christmas visited the house, he saw the web-covered tree and decided to turn the webs to silver. In the morning when the family awoke, the tree was sparkling and beautiful. How to Make the Tinsel Tree Kids undecorate this tree! The ornaments are gifts in ribbon pouches, one to open each day starting December 1. How to Make the Advent Ornaments In Poland, where the Christmas season is seen as a time of renewal, ornaments are fashioned from straw to symbolize thanksgiving for the harvest and hope for good things in the coming year.

Eggs represent the promise of future prosperity, too. How to Make the Polish Tree Although there is no widespread Christmas tradition in Japan, people have learned a lesson of peace and goodwill from Sadako, a little girl who developed leukemia after the 1945 Hiroshima bombing. She learned of a legend that said if a person folded 1,000 paper cranes, the gods might grant his or her wish to become well. Although Sadako never reached her goal, after her death her classmates folded enough cranes to make up the difference. Since then, people all over the world have sent folded cranes to Hiroshima. How to Make the Origami Tree This tree gets its Christmas sparkle from the glass-bead ornaments. How to Make the Beaded Ornaments A Christmas tree dusted with snow looks even frostier when decorated exclusively in shades of silver, white, and cream. Simple paper-and-glitter ornaments mix well with vintage metallic pieces. Glitter ornaments are easy to make and can be saved from year to year.

How to Make the Frosted Ornaments This is the perfect tree for gardeners. We turned vintage seed packets into templates you can download; print on card stock, and cut out with scissors. How to Make the Gardener's Ornaments Pom-poms, tassels, and snowflakes made of vibrant yarn create a cozy, crafty theme for a tree. A sewing basket is a fitting container (the tree sits in a separate pot surrounded by gravel); the gifts are wound with yarn. How to Make the Yarn Tree Curious little hands can't help but be drawn to the irresistible magic of a Christmas tree. With an unbreakable tree, you can let them explore without worry. Nylon threads provide invisible support for a small tree, which is decorated entirely with easy-to make, kid-proof ornaments. How to Make the Unbreakable Tree With a few bags of cotton balls, you can blanket a tree with the softest snow. How to Make the Cotton Ball Tree Office-supply stores have all the trimmings for a tree that belies its workaday origins.

Key tags decorated with stickers, ornaments cut from file folders, and paper-clip chains dangle from the branches. A bubble-packaging tree skirt and presents dressed up in graph paper, stickers, and rubber bands circle the base. How to Make the Office Supply Tree With its pipe-cleaner candles, this small fir recalls a time when Christmas trees were brightened with flame. How to Make the Pipe-Cleaner Christmas Tree White Tree with Hanging-Basket Ornaments An assortment of colorful candy holders and basket ornaments creates a striking effect against a white tree. How to Make the Hanging-Basket Ornaments Channeling childhood summers spent on Cape Cod, crafts director Hannah Milman created a from-the-sea tree. These shell ornaments are dusted with two shades of glitter and blended for a dazzling ombre effect. How to Make the Sea-Inspired Ornaments These stockings are just large enough to hold a small gift or sweet for each of the 24 days of Advent.