Talk about non traditional, eh? For a season of merriment and all around joy, one might think that black trees are a little too sad or depressing. However, what you might not realize is that black Christmas trees can be really chic or fun, depending on how you decorate or use these trees.
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If you’re looking for affordable Christmas decorating ideas, here’s a particularly ingenious and inexpensive one for you! Create your own cardboard Christmas trees! A clever take on artificial trees, this is a project that you can do alone or with your family. Just make sure to keep sharp objects away from the little ones!
Materials:
Cardboard boxes
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In true Christmas-loving form, we should all be on the lookout for sales and discount opportunities for Christmas trees, artificial wreaths, Christmas ornaments and other Christmas paraphernalia. So imagine our excitement when our radars picked up this wonderful Summer Siesta Sale from Treetopia! They’ve slashed their prices to almost more than half ! Imagine all [...]
In a post last week, we talked about bringing the beach to your Christmas-y home. While we all get over our Fourth of July excitement, let’s talk about infusing your holidays with patriotic cheer and saving some money along the way!
The blue, red, and white. Your patriotic ribbons and flaglettes can serve as beautiful ornaments [...]
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Christmas is still a time off, but by shopping around early for your artificial Christmas tree, you can find fantastic deals on high quality items. By doing so, you save yourself not only money, but also a whole bunch of effort when the Holiday Season rolls around.
Balsam Hill is having a 50% [...]
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Cookouts, BBQs, graduation parties, 4th of July celebrations…these things all deserve a little punch, and what better way to bring your game than to dot your patio or backyard with pre lit artificial palm trees? Summer is fast approaching, if it isn’t already here, and this means that gatherings with friends and family [...]
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In the 1965 holiday classic ‘Charlie Brown’s Christmas’, Lucy implores Charlie to get a pink-painted aluminum Christmas tree, but he declines, instead buying a scrawny, natural tree, and decries the aluminum tree as the symbol of the over-commercialization of Christmas. Resulting as a ‘by-product’ of the Space Age, the aluminum Christmas tree is [...]
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Since the 1930s, we’ve had what we can recognize as an artificial Christmas tree; since the 1960s, we’ve had aluminum artificial trees. But it wasn’t until the 1970s that we were graced with the first pre lit artificial Christmas tree. These early versions came complete with a rotating base fit with a wheel of [...]
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A Christmas tree reflects the family that decorated it. Outfitted in the traditional manner, or with brightly colored pre-lit Christmas trees scattered around the home, there’s something telling about a family’s choice.
There is definitely no elastic-band “one size fits all” decor when it comes to decorating your artificial Christmas tree. Choices can range [...]
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All those pesky naggers who decry those of us who love to have our artificial Christmas tree up as long as possible can keep silent.
From tabletop trees to pre-lit Christmas trees, all types of artificial trees can come in handy as decorations at any time of the year. In January, you have about [...]