Hot Links: 5 websites for DIY Christmas decorating
This holiday season, more and more people are taking a less conventional route when it comes to gift giving. Here are 5 websites for extra creative, homemade decorations and presents.
1. http://www.spoonflower.com/welcome
If you are feeling extra creative this holiday season, Spoonflower allows customers to create their own customized gift wrap. Outside of the holidays, it also offers customizable fabric, wallpaper and decals. The site gives the option of uploading your own prints or choosing from hundreds that fit your exact personality.
2. http://www.rd.com/slideshows/cheap-christmas-decorations/#slideshow=slide11
Many families are feeling the pressures of a tight economy this Christmas, but Reader’s Digest featured 24 affordable ways to decorate under a budget. Ranging from painted pine cones to turning candy into a flower vase, this site allows people to creatively turn every day items into beautiful Christmas decorations.
3. http://spoonful.com/christmas/christmas-decorations
Looking to get the whole family involved for holiday decorating? Spoonful offers clever crafts for all ages that will help make the best of Christmas memories. Instead of a traditional Christmas list, the site showed a wishing spool placed on the tree as a different and creative way to show Santa your hopeful gifts this year.
To add just a little more magic to your home for Christmas, Martha Stewart gives a more sophisticated twist on the great holiday decorating ideas. The site shows people with a more artistic edge how to assemble wreaths out of common backyard items.
5. http://www.ivillage.com/easy-diy-christmas-ornaments/7-b-502807
Specific for the Christmas tree, iVillage features 20 DIY ornaments to enhance such a long tradition of decorating the tree. Although some how-tos require materials that may not be lying around the house, like Plasticine, the ending result can be a perfect addition to any Christmas tree.
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