Home Made Christmas Decorations: A Wreath

Home Made Christmas Wreath

The Christmas season is upon us and there are many ways to decorate your home.  Christmas decoration ideas aren’t hard to come by as they are available from TV, home stores, the internet, and your neighbors.  Sometimes it’s hard to keep up, but home made Christmas decorations can be an inexpensive way to decorate.  New family traditions can be created at the same time.  A favorite home made Christmas decoration is a home made wreath.  The fragrant greens will fill your house with the scent of Christmas.

You’ll need bundles of spruce or fir boughs and a wreath frame.

• Cut the branches into 6 to 8-inch pieces.
• Stack several together with the larger branches at the bottom for support and the smaller tips on top.
• Tie the stack to the wreath frame with twine or wire. Continue around the circle until you have a nicely filled-in wreath.
• Now you can adorn your wreath with pine cones, holly, ribbons, angels, or anything reminiscent of Christmas or that has special meaning for your family.

Some other home made Christmas decoration ideas use themes such as toy soldiers or seashells.  Hang the wreath on your front door, or use it as part of a larger theme of home Christmas decoration ideas inside your house.

There are many more home Christmas decoration ideas that you and your family can create.  You can also visit a craft store for home Christmas decoration ideas, or simply look around your own neighborhood.  In the meantime, enjoy your wreath.

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Convection Ovens and Christmas: A Heavenly Match

This summer, my family and I moved into a home with a convection oven. Not being much of a baker, I didn’t think too much about the oven. I would’ve been as happy with a traditional one.

After doing my holiday baking this year, however, I’m sold on the convection oven! Not only did my cookies come out more evenly baked, but they cooked much faster than they would have in my old oven. I can’t wait to bake more things!

Does anyone have a great recipe that I can try out in my convection oven?

I’d love to try it!

Photo Credit: Or Hiltch