Coming up with a theme for your Christmas decorations isn’t always the easiest of decisions. There is an abundance of inspiration out there, and every time you think you have settled on a scheme, you see something even more fabulous.
When it came to deciding on our Christmas scheme, I turned to a past styling shoot where we used tiffany Blue bomboniere boxes with rattan place settings & a general coastal theme. All though I haven’t indulged too much into the coastal theme, I wanted to keep it fresh and use a tri colour scheme based on the extra tiffany blue boxes I had. The bonus of using miniature presents as your tree ornaments is, it gives the impression that there are even more gifts from ‘Santa’. These bomboniere boxes will later be used in the Christmas day table decorations and their purpose will be slightly more traditional. I will post the styled table setting centrepiece in a later post.
This year the scent of a real pine tree will fill our home, and will be adorned with shades of blue, silver and white, Quite a stretch from the colours that traditionally represent Christmas, however, I feel that over the years more and more people are experimenting with the creative process into Christmas decorating and coming up with schemes that represent their family, lifestyle or favourite colour. The process for our 2012 pine Christmas tree has been quite the quirky adventure, and required much innovation and generosity from unsuspecting people.
This year we were trying to stick to a relatively tight budget for Christmas decorations, so when buying the tree we opted against buying the stand, Instead innovation with a gardening pot was the alternative. Apparently placing the tree in a pot plant filled with sand would suffice, the only issue with this was, where to get enough sand to fill a 20L pot!
Well, as we live in bondi, we thought it would be fantastic to have a little bondi beach sand in the base, this wasn’t quite enough to fill the pot, so I received a tip off from a lovely woman at bunnings Rose Bay, that a man in Vaucluse was giving away free sand. Of all things!!
Now the tree was stable and well potted, it was time for the creative side of building 20 flat pack bomboniere boxes and tying white ribbon around them. I used a role of wrapping ribbon from the 2 dollar shop. The bomboniere boxes were from a wonderful website called www.favorsplus.com.au
Then late on Friday evening, with a beautiful bottle of red wine, and the sound of Andy River in the background, we began the process of transforming out lonely pine tree into something quite gorgeous. Below is out Christmas tree, however i ran out of silver baubles so the layers will continue.
This year I also had embroidered monogrammed stocking made. They are quite adorable and add that even more personal touch to our Christmas.
Hope you have enjoyed seeing the making of our 2012 Christmas tree. x
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