Christmas decorations - place settings
Personalised Christmas place settings make the Christmas table look really special and assuming you have even a small garden, you can produce them very cost effectively.
Take a trip around the garden and look at what you can pick for the table. A range of material is best, from very small and delicate items that can be used as napkin holders, or frozen into ice cubes etc, right though to large bold leaves that look wonderful with candles, or layered in a basket with fresh or crystallised fruit.
Once you've gathered your material, divide it into large and small sizes and decide on a theme that will pull the whole table arrangement together. For example, you might decide that every aspect of the table will incorporate trailing stems of ivy, or that you're going to finish every part of the display with silver or gold ribbon.
- Chicken wire
- Damp moss, oasis or florists foam
- Wire
- Evergreen sprigs from your garden
- Dried flowers, the best are helichrysum, the famous everlasting flower, you can buy them in craft shops but next year, grow your own from seed, it's much cheaper!
- 12 small pine cones
- Several metres of gilt-edged ribbon - the kind that has wire running through its edges
- Four large white candles and one red one, or four large red candles and one white one.
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