Adding Eucalyptus branches gathered from the yard can add a wonderful dimension to your Christmas tree when you embellish the clustered branches with aerosol spray snow for a wintry-white feel without ever spraying or changing the color of your tree itself.  This project would be especially great for an artificial tree to add a sense of natural freshness to it.  Your guests are sure to pull up a comfortable chair to marvel at the winter wonderland and your frosted tree branches.

Begin by wiring eucalyptus branches in bundles of three.  You can also use any other type of branches as long as they have a slender leave look as the eucalyptus does.  Next, spray the branches with aerosol snow covering most of it, including any seeds still left on the stems, yet allowing some of the natural color of the leaves to show through. Allow the frosted branches to dry for about 30 minutes, and then repeat the same spraying process on the other side.  Once the branches are fairly dry to the touch (they will still feel a little moist), secure them to your tree with floral wire, making sure that the wider end of your frosted branch cluster is pointing outward away from the tree, therefore creating dimension.  To give your project a natural look, don’t forget to secure the stems of your frosted branches to the inner portion of the tree as if they were actually attached to the trunk of the tree. 

Note: Place a tree skirt or sheet around the base of the tree prior to securing frosted branches to tree. You are finished and can now enjoy your unique and classy Christmas tree decorating tradition.

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By taking your common indoor/outdoor light strand and combining it with some light colored plastic ornaments, you can make your house the envy of the neighborhood during the Christmas holiday season with a unique and festive light garland that most folks would not have even considered putting together. 

You will want to start out by prepping your ornaments first.  If you don’t have any that can be spared for this project, you should be able to find starter craft making ornaments at any of your better craft stores or online.  You want to drill a hole large enough on opposite sides of each other on every ornament to be able to feed your strand of lights through, but not so large that the lights easily fall out.  You can make a pilot hole to get started with a smaller drill bit.

Then, just feed your strand of lights through each ornament, evenly spacing however many you made to give a nice coverage to the tree.  I decided to not go overboard, since these were larger size ornaments, and my Leyland Cypress they’d be hanging on might not take too kindly to so much weight.  I spread 16 ornaments over the 5 foot tree.  That’s it.  Hang and enjoy your festive light garland, and store it away as is for the off season ready to hang again next year.  You may want to try using a multi-display type of light strand to vary the light show.

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