From the article: Christmas Tree Decorating Tips
Pipe cleaners for ornaments hooks, using garlands around the trunk of a tree, hanging salt shakers with floral wire -- What's your best tip for decorating a Christmas tree? What's your best hint?
Jan Zimmer's Heritige Ornaments
- Handblown glass balls and Jan's ornaments along with other limited edition ornaments make a wonderful tree! Jan makes a paper mache shell and each shell has a miniature scene in it. My favorite is the cat looking in the mouse hole at a mouse family singing carols around the piano and a decorated tree. She also makes figures with Christmas lights some of which have caught on the antlers - it's adorable! Her Christmas theme figures are my personal favorite, but I also have a birthday celebration table with kittens enjoying the cake and presents on the table. I have collected the handblown glass Christmas balls from artists at shows & when traveling. They are all shapes and colors. Some are etched with designs like the white one with dancing figures that decorated the White House Tree - a wonderful find! A gold garland spiraling down the tree finishes it off.
- —Guest Alane Friedrich
Ribbon Ties
- I like to use thin satin ribbon to tie my ornaments to the tree. I pick colors that match the ornament or tree theme and I can adjust the ornament between the branches just perfectly! See more decorating tips here > http://casaqornaments.com/decoratingtips.html
- —Guest Darlene
Lights
- If you're putting up an artificial tree, strings the lights as you build each section of the tree and you'll end up with a perfectly balanced lit tree. Saves a lot of time, as well, since you don't have to walk about the tree to string the lights.
- —BnGjarnut
Ornament hangers
- My mother uses green embroidery floss instead of traditional hangers. They disappear on the bough and never drop an ornament, an it is a spectacularly cheap option.
- —Guest Karinmeares
