How about giving your Christmas a pink makeover? Since pink is a color that everyone has very different reactions to, here are a few ways to add a touch of pink to your Christmas without going out of your comfort zone.
Level one: Pink accents. Not everyone is a fan of pink. If you’re one of [...]
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
X-acto [...]
Going green is a concern for many of us nowadays. With the onset of all the natural disasters besieging countries the world over, there is an elevated consciousness to take better care of the earth. While I do sing the praises of these awesome feats of technology, sometimes these earth-saving measures don’t look pretty at [...]
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When I was young, my parents bought my siblings and I each a tabletop artificial Christmas tree to bring holiday cheer to our bedrooms. I distinctly remember taking them down from the attic each year, and the excitement that came with the experience—it meant Christmas was close, and presents were on their way.
The [...]
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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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The pristinely beautiful, wonderfully enchanting, sophisticatedly faux Christmas tree…We love them more than life itself, but where do they come from? What are their motives? In this mini-series of blog entries, Artificial Trees dives into the sordid depths of the past to drag out the dirty truth behind the mysterious origins of the [...]
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Diamonds may last forever, but so do artificial trees! A wonderful way to say ‘Thank you’, ‘I love you’, or ‘Hey, you’re a great friend’, artificial trees keep giving even after you’ve given the gift. Friends, lovers, and family members can use your gift tree as a centerpiece for their birthday party, housewarming, [...]
Yes. As the Indianapolis Colts and Saint Louis Saints get ready for the big day on February 7, their fans are carefully prepping for their Super Bowl parties. People are getting more and more enthusiastic about supporting their teams, and all colorful paraphernalia is welcome. This includes colorful artificial Christmas trees, which add a much-welcome splash [...]
Over the past five years, the mini religious and cultural movement known as Chrismukkah has been gaining speed and recognition. First popularized by the television show O.C., Chrismukkah is the blending of Christmas and Hanukkah for interfaith families.
How religiously blended families celebrate the “holiday” is up to them, but decorating for it is very easy [...]
Christmas is all about smells. The smell of freshly fallen snow, of cinnamon, mulled spices, and cookies baking; the tangy and fresh scent of a Christmas tree.
It’s one of the things that artificial Christmas tree owners miss the most. Some people refuse to get an artificial tree, even though they want one, because they’re afraid [...]