Do you have a party to plan for the holidays?  If your looking for a fast last minute before your guest arrive project that you can fit in to your Christmas home décor, try adding some holiday charm to non holiday sofa style pillows.  Not only will you be able to transform the look of your plain pillows within seconds, you will also have custom designed pillows that your guests are sure to love.  You need to do something, so lets get going. 

This project requires no sewing. So put the needle and thread away.  Begin by carefully wrapping a felt ribbon around the front center of your pillow.  Next, taking a miniature felt – covered ornament type pillow, attach it to the felt ribbons by tying the ornament hanger and felt ribbon together.  The ornament can very easily be removed for other purposes.  Remember, this is a quick project to add a little extra Christmas cheer.  Note: Try using felt ribbon that comes with bells attached, or different ornament design patterns with similar felt covered materials to add texture and interest to your pillows.  That is it.  Very simple and quick.  Below is a list of items you will need for completing this quick Christmas decorating project

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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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