Regardless of religious affiliations, the holidays are a time for good wishes, positive thoughts and gift giving—which can be expensive and stressful.
But with these creative holiday gift and decoration tips from Natural Home magazine, celebrating the season will be easier.
Rather than digging in storage for those knotted, energy draining light strands, try Tibetan hanging prayer flags.
Prayers are printed onto colored-fabric squares and strung together. It is believed that the prayers are carried to the end of the earth by the wind and for this reason, they are called Lungta, meaning “windhorse.”
Originally placed on sacred spaces including homes and temples, this décor item is both meaningful and beautiful.
Create your own flags and personalize them with holiday guests’ hopes and wishes to send into the wind.
Every year hundreds of thousands of books are disposed. Spare a few books and make a unique piece with this project.
To make this tree or angel shaped centerpiece, you will need a spine decoration. We recommend a star or a small wooden ball, eye hook and brass washer for an angel’s head, but be as creative as you wish.
First, if your recycled book does not have decorative endpapers (the paper on the inside of the front and back covers), add a sheet of pattered papers to each side. After measuring and cutting the paper, glue it on.
To create an angel, use a creamy white paper as the wings. Simply fold the book’s first and last pages in the opposite direction from the rest of your folds.
Using a small eye hook, insert it into the space where the book spine meets the hardcover.
Next, place the brass washer on the hook followed by a pinch of clay or beeswax and the wooden ball. Creating a Christmas tree book is similar to the angel—just substitute a star for the wooden ball and brass washer.
Christmas tree decorations can be expensive and impersonal; Natural Home has the solution. Take your favorite magazine’s back issues and transform them into beautiful, one-of-a-kind ornaments.
First, choose a shape (circles, squares, or any other) and cut about 20 from the magazine.
Next, stack them and staple them together.
Unfold them and slip it onto a string or hook and you have a beautiful ornament.
We recommend colorful magazine pages because the finished product will add the perfect touch of color to a tree.
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