How Do You Decorate For The Holidays Southwestern Style?

Anyone who has lived in the Southwest, even for a short time, knows the region has a distinctive flair. Now you can keep that flair going through the holidays, doing away with the rest of the nation's poinsettia plants and pine cone wreaths and embracing all the area has to offer. It's both fun and easy to decorate for the holidays southwestern style, here's how.

Make a tumbleweed Christmas tree. Find a good-sized tumbleweed on the side of the road or perhaps lodged in fence somewhere, prop it in a planter, throw on some ornaments and voila! You've got yourself a southwestern Christmas tree.

Dress up deer, goat and steer skulls with little Santa hats or red noses. If the skulls are small enough, you can even use them as décor for your tumbleweed Christmas tree. String lights on your outdoor cactus and buy some small indoor cactus to adorn with red and green bows, placing them strategically throughout the home.

Unlike poinsettias that often end up the same way, cacti are not poisonous ... more.

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