Christmas Window Box Decorating Ideas

As our favorite winter holiday approaches it is time to begin thinking about Christmas decorating ideas. If you already have ideas for your house and yard displays, you may still have questions about how to spice up the look of your window boxes. Check out some of our Christmas window box decorating ideas below to help get you started.

Natures Walk. Gather all the materials you need for this natural beauty in your backyard or nearby park. Tie clusters of spruce branches together using wire and complete the look by combing with pinecones and holly. Spray lightly with an artificial snow to give a real winter window box feel.

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White Winter. Tie clusters of twigs together to make a base and spray silver. Add faux snow flocked evergreen boughs. Accent your snow white theme with any combination of items such as white lace ribbon, reindeer moss, cream artificial berries, walnuts and even hibiscus pods. You can even soak small twigs in bleach water overnight to turn them white and use them to decorate.

Christmas Window Box Decorating Ideas

Christmas Balls. Fill your planter boxes with Christmas balls in all variety of sizes and complementary colors such as red with small amounts of gold. Glue the balls together to keep them from blowing away and help give a full look. Also incorporate some same colored strands of ribbon to provide additional flare.

Wrapped Window box. For easy decorating, try wrapping your window box with gift wrap paper. Complete the look with large ribbons, bows and even gift tags. For quilters try creating a quilt wrap for your box using leftover Christmas fabric.

Evergreen. Bring in the holiday charm by planting dwarf or small conifers such as Tsuga Canadensis. Accentuate your look with gold and deep purple berries and ribbons, pinecones, and other natural floral accents such as eucalyptus branches.

Metallic. Begin your look with a base of dusty miller combined with silver ornament, silver tinsel and silver ribbons. For holiday sparkle, incorporate some white lights, glitter and clear crystals into your design.

Fireplace Mantel. Begin this design by painting a brick pattern onto cardboard. Attach this design to the front of you box and decorate like a fireplace. Hang large stockings below the mantel, and incorporate Christmas cards affixed on top. Include large hanging garland, bows and broad pillar candles.

Hopefully these ideas will help you create a unique and beautiful Christmas window display. Although most flowers don't do well during the winter season, it does not mean that you can't be creative with your window boxes. Dressing them up with decorations, ornaments, or evergreens for Christmas is a great way to boost your curb appeal and show your neighbors you have a few tricks up your sleeve that they haven't thought of already.

Christmas Window Box Decorating Ideas

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Chinese New Year - Door and Window Decorations

The Chinese (Lunar) New Year will fall on February 2 in the year 2011. It will be the year of the Rabbit as well. How do the Chinese prepare for this huge holiday, their biggest, most important holiday of the year? Cleaning, cooking, shopping, and decorating the house are their main preparations.

The two main things people will use to decorate their house (after they have thoroughly cleaned it, of course) is to hang up Chun Lian outside of their doors. Since most Chinese homes only have one entrance, they just buy (or receive on from their bank or employer) one set of chun lian. Chun lian are often referred to as "couplets" by Chinese who speak English. They are rhyming poems comprised of three parts. The three parts are each written on a separate piece of paper. A short piece is hung above the door and two longer sections are hung on either side of the door. The longer pieces have words that are opposites but they must also have some rhyme to them. The shorter top piece is a summary of the other two pieces. In ancient times scholars would have competitions to come up with new poems to demonstrate their mastery of the language and their creative talents.

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Some craftsmen will use their calligraphy skills to earn money by writing these poems on pieces of red paper. THey will usually use black or gold ink. In most large cities in China you can get a simple set of them for under US. You can also purchase printed chun lian at most markets prior to the Chinese New Year.

Another Door decoration that Chinese will put up is a square piece of paper with one Chinese Character 'fu' written on it. However the paper is turned so it is similar to the shape of a diamond and the character is upside down. It's a creative play on words. The character will almost always be upside down.

On their windows, Chinese will often put some red paper cuttings of Chinese characters or things that are considered lucky. This year you will find many paper cuttings of rabbits since it is going to be the year of the rabbit.

Not everybody puts up these decorations on their doors. usually it's the younger generations who do not follow all the old traditions. My Chinese born husband says that many holiday traditions and practices have already changed from when he was a child.

Chinese New Year - Door and Window Decorations

Char is an English teacher in China and has spent the last six years living in a small town teaching English. You visit my lens about the Chinese New Year and find out where to get Chinese Party Supplies for your Chinese New Year's party.