Christmas windows

Ooh! Beginning to feel inspired ?

Welcome Coastpath - lovely window?

Good job I've more than one window ? - might end up doing the lot pinching these beautiful ideas.

These are lovely. We too have something similar locally. Last year our neighbour used 'snow' paint (which you can get at craft shops). Mum (who is an artist) did the basic scene, then the 6 year old filled parts of it with her drawings. We all loved it.

PamelaJ1 That's really lovely.

One that my niece did. She does do it professionally, for businesses. She uses special paint but, sorry, I don’t know what sort.

Wow! - that is lovely!

That's lovely Coastpath and Hetty.

That is so very pretty Coastpath!

Love the one Hetty posted too. Sadly we are in the country and can hardly be seen from the road, or I would do this myself.

Hetty58 and Coastpath those are both beautiful ?

Hello I'm new here. I have been reading for a while but just had to join in for this thread. We made this window a few years ago for a village window advent calendar. Tissue paper stained glass on black sugar paper with a lamp lit in the room behind. Have fun.

Look at Habitat for light up star curtains etc. Their lights are usually good quality. Then build around it.

That is pretty!

I like lit shapes like these - but the other way round, lit from the windowsill outside with led strips. They are easy to do. Ikea have some good, cheap, star lampshades (Strala) this year, too. I have some for hanging inside the window:

Two plain rectangular panes.

Thanks for the ideas.

Somehow I need them to be light-uppable, if you see what I mean!

If you have square panes, perhaps you could have just one item per pane - bell, candle, bauble, star, tree… etc. Print off outlines from the internet, cut out the middle, get coloured tissue paper and glue for stained glass effect.

Do you have windows with square glass panes? They are easier to make a story board with different animals in each pane, or a Father Christmas and sleigh theme. A big picture window is harder to dress, so maybe start at the top by dangling baubles and stars on strings of beads, then concentrate on building up the windowsill with Christmas trees, reindeer etc so they almost meet in the middle of the window.

A pantomime theme?