How To Decorate Your Mantel for Christmas (Video)

In this how-to video, designer Eddie Ross reveals simple steps for decorating a fabulous Christmas fireplace mantel  with simple greenery, Christmas lights and glowing candles. The result is really lovely — I think I will try this at home!    

How to put lights on your Christmas Tree

Here are some tips from the experts… First, the lights. You will need 100 lights per foot of tree. Secondly, those light strings contain lead.  So wear plastic gloves to protect your hands, and wash your hands afterwards and before eating anything, so you don’t accidentally contaminate yourself. Now for the decorating… From what I’ve [...]

How to Decorate a Christmas Wreath (Video)

Kim Beck, one of the visual merchandisers at Christmas Town, Busch Gardens Williamsburg, demonstrates how to decorate a wreath for Christmas in this short video. For more inspiration, visit www.christmastown.com.

How to Decorate a Christmas Tree (with White House decorator Jim Marvin)

Before I watched this how-to video, I had no idea there were so many tricks to decorating a beautifully balanced Christmas tree! Some of these tips include using florist wire to attach the ornaments to the tree, placing larger Christmas balls deep inside the branches for background, using clip on ornaments on the very tips [...]

How to select and care for a Poinsettia

This is a good time of year to pick out a Poinsettia for you or for a friend.  Here’s how to pick out a good one: the center little yellow-green nubs are the flowers (the red “petals” are actually leaves).  These should be closed, they’ll open eventually.  Skip a plant that has curling, yellow, or [...]

Cool Yule Bargain Alert: 1/2 Price Colorful Trees at Sam’s Farm

I dropped by Sam’s Farm in Falls Church, Virginia on Leesburg Pike (address at the end of this post) and was impressed by the beautiful decorations and trees they had there, at very good prices, too. Half-off all artificial Christmas trees and artificial garlands Even though I have a lot of Christmas decorations, I could [...]

Make a Merry Christmas Wreath (video)

Decorate the windows of your home with original wreaths you make yourself.  Each wreath takes less than 20 minutes to make, and it’s really fun.  To make your wreath, you will need 1 roll of wide, wired ribbon (makes at least 2 wreaths) 1 roll of medium, wired ribbon (makes at least 2 wreaths) 1 [...]