Xmas decorations help!

I use a lot of Christmas decorations in my garden and at church .I majecthem or get them very cheaply from a charity shop and they sometimes look a bit tanished or are the wrong colour .
I spray paint them and then ,
sprinkle with glitter .
As your decorations are orange - gold would do something magical for them .

I actually love it!

Go to The Range or B& M they have some nice Christmas swags etc.

Welshy

If you have only recently bought it. Can it be returned?

Oh it's gone to the charity shop ......

If you have only recently bought it. Can it be returned?

Maybe use silver & gold stuff to brighten them up?

Im sorry, but 🤣

Not at all, don't give up. So I would get a mirror first and secure it upright over the backing wallpaper, with perhaps a surrounding of silver or gold paper. Then you could place a simple white candle in the centre with some greenery round it, plus a sprig or spray of red berries ( you could get a sprig of mistletoe later to change over from the red berries. If they shrivel. ) Then lay your browner bits along but again feed some small white , but warm lights along the front of the display. Switch on lights. And enjoy the double vision provided by your mirror. Be crafty and get a couple of cotton wool buds, then either mix a little cinnamon and nutmeg and maybe a touch og ginger
with tiny amount of hot water and dip cotton bud into it, and hide at the back alternatively , put a few drops of essential oil you like. Lavender would be restful and you have a lovely thing to enjoy with reminders of the past. Sit back and close your eyes. And perhaps play some music that takes you back to childhood , and remember loved ones.
Don't beat yourself up. Make this a link with your earlier life and try to remember the good times.

Robin202

You say you’ve added greenery, so you could add some little battery operated white fairy lights intertwined, some holly berries picked from outdoors, maybe some white/silver mini baubles if thats your thing, a couple of tartan bows - theres lots to choose from.

The decs are in the charity shop.

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Best to avoid real flame candles if you can to avoid any possibility of fire.

Battery operated ones now have very authentic looking flickering flames and cast lovely shadows.
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Agree. That's what I do on my mantle.

You can buy strings of battery operated little lights from eBay for peanuts. They use so little energy that they last for the 3-4-weeks over Christmas after which I continue to use the batteries in other things through the year and use new ones again the following Christmas.
Available in single colours and multi.

I also literally throw a string of red lights on the coals in my gas fire grate when the heating is on so I don't need the fire but like the little glows - looks like glistening embers.

Been using mine for about ten years now and they're still going strong again this year. (Don't have go worry about electricity fires or overheating either - so good on small trees in little kiddies bedrooms too)
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If you don’t like it, it’s a good enough reason to change it. It feels more like an Autumnal decor to me. Wrong season! Don’t chuck it though. Give it to me🐸😍🤭😂
Best to stick to the traditional bright colours of Christmas. I tried the all white look, but couldn’t resist adding the gold and the red touches. Christmas decor has to brighten up your heart ❤️ it’s different for all of us of course. Cheers 🥂

Allira

Lathyrus3

It’s gone. The charity shop was very pleased 😀

I’ve never had trouble in calling it quits 😬👍

Which one?

Asking for a friend 😀

Age UK. You can park outside.

Not only did it smell lovely but I’d bought a bottle of top up smell too😬

Ah well, easy come, easy go…………..

You say you’ve added greenery, so you could add some little battery operated white fairy lights intertwined, some holly berries picked from outdoors, maybe some white/silver mini baubles if thats your thing, a couple of tartan bows - theres lots to choose from.

I watched the new Sara Davies craft programme on tv she had a very plain one and decorated it beautifully

Maybe add some gold to it to make it stand out.

I bet it smelt lovely!

Lathyrus3

It’s gone. The charity shop was very pleased 😀

I’ve never had trouble in calling it quits 😬👍

Which one?

Asking for a friend 😀

J52

3 Candles in glass jars with fir cones look pretty. Something like this.

I like those!

I like the swafpg too but perhaps not with the wallpaper behind it.

I think it looks lovely in your picture. But I am not one for garish Christmas decor. I like natural, subtle colours.

Lathyrus3

Ive tried Pinterest but it’s all too massive and ornate with fixings and stuff. I just want it to lay really.

This is just a bit of it.

Hmm, not Christmassy at all to my mind, but tastes differ.

I would certainly take it down again, and use it as an autumn decoration or Halloween one if you like that sort of thing.

And you have done so.

So why not go and buy some of those lanterns with artificial battery-run candles in them, one at either end of the mantelpiece and one in the middle would be my suggestion and wind ivy, or a lenght of red ribbon between them?

I think the problem is its just too small.. its not making much of an impact on your mantlepiece..get some swags of fake green fir…blend it in with that and tie in some red glass baubles or maybe a strip of the tiny rice light that work off a battery pack…

I agree that greenery would help, and what about some ribbon twining through, orange or ochre to pick up the colours of the oranges?

Toadstools look nice.

J52 I’m loving those candles too. I have enough candles really……..but those are rather pretty.