ENTERTAINING HOLIDAY entertaining

Christmas DIY decorations | 3 blogs and a mood board – 2007.12.17 edition

Toasts and Tables :: More Ways to Waste Time :: Apartment Therapy New York

If you do not know about this weekly column, let me explain. I feature 3 stories from the blogosphere based on a set of rules. First, the stories have 7 days old or less, and my board must inspire a party theme or share a common theme. This week, it is about DIY Holiday decorative projects.

1 | Toasts and Tables

This easy to make bauble ornament is one of many ideas featured on THINK PINK (and green) for a Christmas tablesetting by Toasts and Tables.

Give a new life to a cheese dome by housing a bunch of baubles. Display it on a buffet table, a credence, the entrance and even as a centerpiece for your Christmas dinner party.

2 | More Ways to Waste Time

You can learn How to Make a Snowflakes-and-Oranges Window Hanging if you read the blog of Leah Hennen, a home-design junkie from Oakland, California. In a previous issue, the team of Donna Hay Magazine told us to plan a knitting party. Now More Ways to Waste Time presented about a

beautiful assemblage of crocheted snowflakes, yarn pom-poms, and dried oranges hung from a gently gnarled tree branch.

3 | Apartment Therapy New York

Learn how to make this Bird-Friendly Flower Box by watching a video and by reading complementing tips. This cute outdoor arrangement is made with just four small bundles of seasonal branches and a few pine cones. Thanks to Matt of Apartment Therapy New York for bringing this story.