Great ‘Decorate your house for under £20’ Hunt

uncle_ben_2

Sometimes ready-mixed paint goes funny when painting shiny card. If you add some childrens PVA glue to the paint it will cover better.

Middlestitch

If you run out of CDs, lots of places offer free ones as an inducement to sign up to a particular ISP - supermarkets and post offices seem to have lots!

Middlestitch

Take a small heatproof glass, add half an inch of water and add a few drops of food colouring. Put a tealight in (make sure the water level remains below the side of the tealight....!!) and light - the result casts very pretty shadows.

luckylukey

I buy baubles from the pound shop and then cusomise them with glittery pens - they look gorgeous and are cheaper than buying them from the shops. I have also covered some in pva and then stuck them in a bag of glitter .

ksone_2

Hi,

I found some bargains in Ikea and Asda:

Pack of 10 large round baubles £1.30 per pack in Ikea
Pack of 48 medium baubles only £1.99 a pack
3ft tree in Asda for only £2.44 + other cheap decorations
Battery operated lights (4 x AA size) in Ikea £1.49 each

Plus - use cotton wool with a bit of silver glitter for fake snow on your tree.

Not bad at all

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We have a VERY large houseplant (almost 6 foot tall now) which sits in the corner of our living room, which doubles as our Xmas tree. Of course it doesn't have the strong branches of a fir tree so decorations need to be lighter and less of them! However, we can also put lights on it, spray some of the leaves gold, and put a star on the top and it looks really lovely! We also wrap red paper around the plant pot and decorate it (e.g. with glitter, gold thread, etc.)

needmoney

This is a nice little site

http://www.allfreecrafts.com/christmas/

green_rabbit_2

Just to add to the popcorn garland idea, I wait until the supermarkets reduce cranberries (they always overstock), and thread those on with the popcorn - it looks great. After christmas I put the berries and popcorn out to feed the birds

green_rabbit_2

Another thing I've just thought of is that one year I kept the sheels from the nuts we'd been eating and got the kids to glue them around the edge ofa cardboard ( from a box) 'wreath' shape along with some holly leaves, small baublesetc - we then spray painted it gold but you could adapt to your colour scheme. It comes out every year with candles in the middle as a centre piece for the dining table. I suppose it could also be used on a doorway with a porch or anywhere it wouldn't get wet.

Luiz

I've just tried your CD idea and found the holographic silvery stuff comes off when I cut it :-( how do you stop this happening ?