How Do You Decorate A Christmas Stocking?

Whether you make your own Christmas stocking or purchase one, personalize or embellish it in some way. Here are some hints to get you started. Purchase or make a Christmas stocking.

See "How to Make a Stocking," under Related eHows, for instructions if you decide to make your own. Write your name in glue across the top portion of the stocking and sprinkle red, gold or green glitter across the glue. Make sure all the glue is covered.

Shake off excess glitter. Use iron-on letters to personalize your Christmas stocking. Arrange letters appropriately on the stocking and then press in place with an iron.

Cut out Christmas shapes from holiday print fabrics and appliqué the shapes onto the stocking. Use Christmas cookie cutters as patterns for your appliqués. Purchase or make pompoms or tassels to hang from the top of your stocking.

See "How to Make Pompoms," under Related eHows, or "How to Make a Tassel" for instructions if you decide to make your own. Apply coordinating trim or cording ... more.

Wow! It is that time of year to drag out the trees, boxes of ornaments, untangle the lights, and start the annual sojourn of the mystical tree decorating festivities. Where should we start?

I suggest with the tree itself. After getting the tree safely out of wherever you stored it and unpacking it out of the box and putting it together (hopefully you purchased a hinged tree at this point) then you need to fluff the thousands of little branches out. I know this is time consuming and a bit rough on the hands, but it is well worth the effort to do it right.

Taking special care to unfurl all the needles and unfolding the branches one by one, you should be able to see the beautiful start of a grand looking tree taking shape in about 30 minutes or so. After all we really are not going for the Charlie Brown look are we? Next hopefully you already placed the tree where you wish to display it or are shortly after moving furniture and cleaning the cobwebs you just realized were there.

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