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20 DIY Natural Christmas Ornaments

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Natural Christmas ornaments are beautiful, easy to make and practically free! Make nature-inspired Christmas decorations with pine cones, rose hips, acorns, walnuts and oranges.

20 DIY Natural Christmas Ornaments

Make DIY natural Christmas ornaments for your tree this year! These homemade natural Christmas decorations are eco-friendly, cheap, easy and fun to make. You can gather most of the materials for the natural Christmas tree ornaments in the nature. So there’s no need to run to the store – especially now in times of the coronavirus. You can find the materials for the Christmas ornaments made from natural materials in your garden, the woods or parks. Continue reading 20 DIY Natural Christmas Ornaments →

2 Ways To Make DIY Real Mini Christmas Trees From Clippings

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These 2 DIY tabletop Christmas trees are real, natural and smell of Christmas! 2 easy ways to make DIY real mini Christmas trees from clippings at home!

How To Make DIY Eco-Friendly Fresh Christmas Tree From Clippings

These 2 DIY real mini Christmas trees are all-natural – made without glue, floral foam or wire. All you need is clippings and natural twine. You can simply compost the miniature live Christmas trees after the holiday season! Continue reading 2 Ways To Make DIY Real Mini Christmas Trees From Clippings →

How To Make A Bottle Brush Christmas Tree – From Scratch!

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Make a cute little bottle brush Christmas tree with cotton yarn from scratch!

DIY Bottle Brush Tree From Scratch

Little bottle brush Christmas trees are everywhere right now. But instead of buying one, you can simply make your own DIY bottle brush Christmas tree with natural materials you already have at home! All you need for this DIY bottle brush tree is cotton yarn in green or white, a piece of wire and a wood slice. Continue reading How To Make A Bottle Brush Christmas Tree – From Scratch! →

How To Make Snow Covered Pine Cones

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Snow-covered pine cones are easy and cheap to make at home. All you need for these snow pine cones are white acrylic paint and pine cones. DIY snow covered pine cones look great as natural Christmas tree ornaments!

How To Make Snow Covered Pine Cones

Three years ago, I’ve already made eco-friendly snow-covered pine cones with salt and DIY wheatpaste. I love how they turned out but these snow-covered pine cones are even easier and quicker to make than the eco-friendly version! It takes just one or two minutes to paint one pine cone. Continue reading How To Make Snow Covered Pine Cones →

DIY Wood Bead ‘Cranberry’ Wreath Ornament

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DIY Wood Bead Cranberry Wreath Ornament

This DIY wood bead ‘cranberry’ ornament is easy and fun to make with kids. And because it can be made so quick, it’s a great last-minute DIY Christmas ornament: It takes just some minutes to string and paint the beads. Besides, this faux cranberry ornament with wood beads is not only pretty but also non-wilting, unlike a wreath ornament with real cranberries with wood beads. Continue reading DIY Wood Bead ‘Cranberry’ Wreath Ornament →

The Victorian Christmas Tree

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The Victorian Christmas Tree
The Christmas Tree, Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1850

The ‘door was thrown open leading into the great exhibition-room. Here was a magnificent Christmas-tree hung all over with colored wax tapers; here were tables covered with white cloths, and glittering from head to foot with the most bewitching doll-babies, work-boxes, card-cases, silk dresses, rattles, penny whistles, shawls, sashes, drawing-implements, and I don’t know what all, for big and little, with a name written upon each, and ever so many funny inscriptions to make it all the more merry.’ (An American Family In Germany, 1866, p. 183) Continue reading The Victorian Christmas Tree →

Old-Fashioned Christmas Wreath From Scratch

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DIY Old-Fashioned Christmas Wreath From Scratch

‘Hang a wreath at your threshold on Christmas
In token of Love, Life and Beauty,
For like the bound circle of evergreen foliage,
They have neither end nor beginning.
And weave in bright berries and fruits, or a riband,
For Joy, Mirth, Bounty, and friendly Good Cheer.’

(Trimming The Christmas Table, 1928)

Make an all-natural, old-fashioned Christmas wreath this Christmas! This Christmas wreath is made from scratch without a straw or foam base: All you need is greenery, water shoots, red berries and cotton twine. The Christmas wreath is all-natural, made without wire and glue, so you can compost the wreath after the holiday season! The Christmas wreath from scratch is so quick to make – it takes less than half an hour! Continue reading Old-Fashioned Christmas Wreath From Scratch →