What is the New Year? This is a Christmas tree! And also - shimmering garlands, brilliant tinsel and many other festive attributes. We tell how to decorate the house to the most magical time of the year and create a festive mood.
Aroma of the holiday
Our memory is amazing: some memories of childhood arise when we feel familiar smells. Fresh pastries, a new book, my mother's perfume - this can be a simple little thing, which immediately brings us back to the past. And what does the New Year smell like? Mandarins, pine needles, ginger biscuits, gift paper.
Create a holiday atmosphere by adding a couple of "tasty" combinations of ginger, cinnamon, cloves and rosemary. If the home is not allergic, put an aroma lamp with oils. The recipe for a Christmas flavor is: a drop of oil of nutmeg, ylang-ylang, ginger and cloves.
Make an Advent Calendar
Advent calendar is an attribute that helps to feel the anticipation of a holiday. In it - the windows in which delicacies are hidden. Every day of December will be remembered, but not swept, as always, in a fleeting moment.
Advent calendars can be different. From paper, cloth and cardboard. In the form of a garland and matchboxes. Here are a few options for simple calendars.
- Garland. Pack small gifts in bundles and hang them, for example, on a hanger. On the convolutions write the numbers - from December 1 to December 31, or number in the reverse order, indicating how many days are left before the New Year.
- Garland and boxes. Buy match boxes and use them as gift boxes. Hang the boxes on a rope and cut off one gift each day.
- Silhouettes. Put the gifts in boxes and glue to them cut out of paper silhouettes, for example houses, mountains, Christmas trees. Arrange it on a window sill or on a shelf.
Christmas tree
Variations on the theme of a Christmas tree are many.
- A "tasty" Christmas tree. If there are children in the house, they will like the sweet spruce - with apples, honey and ginger cakes, cookies, tangerines, nuts in foil and, of course, sweets in shiny wrappers.
- Aromatic. Add to the toys and sweets cinnamon sticks, cloves and oven-dried slices of orange. And enjoy the spicy scent that immediately spills over the apartment.
- All in moderation. Garlands are in a circle. But toys - in any order. Observe the balance: do not overdo with the number of ornaments.
Without Christmas tree
Even if you do not have a place for a tree, you can come up with something interesting. You will not believe, but many items are like New Year's symbols.
- A couple of details and here - a wooden stepladder with a garland resembles a minimalistic spruce.
- Put a few wooden twigs in the vase, decorate the details with felt. You can even paint them with white paint. In front of you is a winter bouquet.
- Draw on the free wall two or three or four triangles. Hang (or glue) garlands or Christmas toys. You see? This is a real and very stylish Christmas tree!
Magic pictures of paper
One of the most unusual ways to decorate an interior is to cut out a beautiful paper composition. To do this, you need: paper, glue, ruler, tweezers, double-sided scotch and necessarily - a blade and holder for it. This is easy to find in the shops for a hobby. Another help is a self-healing carpet for cutting, but at first you can do without it.
Next - it's up to you. Take the pattern and cut. Although still useful book "Magic of Paper", where you will find more tips and many, many templates here are such beautiful pictures.
How to cut a herringbone?
- Cut out small elements: the core of leaves and flowers, bird feathers and so on. Then - the negative space between the branches. In the last turn, cut along the edge of the "triangle".
- The carved wood itself is very fragile, but if placed in a frame, it will be a magnificent festive decoration for the house and a wonderful gift for the New Year.
We make wood wreaths
The wreath is a traditional decoration in the New Year's interior. You can, of course, buy an artificial wreath. But, imagine how much joy the element will bring if you make it yourself.
The simplest and elegant version is a wreath from one branch or several stems, neatly connected in the form of a circle. You can even make a collection: several miniature cute little wreaths will lift the mood and transform the interior.
The main thing in the New Year's decorations is to do everything together. To decorate the Christmas tree, hide the sweets in the Advent calendar, make wreaths from the forest twigs. And enjoy every day in anticipation of the holiday.
Ideas from the books of the publishing house MYTH: "We are wrapping the winter", "Wonderful time: winter", "Book of the New Year and Christmas. Our Days "," Magic from Paper "
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