Try something new this holiday season and create your own decorations! Homemade decorations are a fun and unique way to decorate your home while making sure you stay on a budget!

Homemade wreaths are common for those trying to save money. If available, reuse bows from the previous season. If you don’t have any old bows, you can easily make new ones out of ribbon, cloth, or paper. Gather pinecones from outside and use gold or silver spray paint to give them some color. Apply white paint on the tips of the cone for a snow effect! After they have dried, take a florist wire, about one foot long, wrap and twist it tightly around the cone and then attach it to the wreath.

For a natural holiday look, use fruit and flowers. Fill a bowl with fresh lemons, limes or oranges for the centerpiece. For more color, use cranberries. Also, cranberries can be used as fun garland after they are strung together!

Pomander balls are unique because they look nice and smell nice too! A pomander ball is a piece of fruit, usually an orange that has been pierced with cloves and dried to give a wonderful aroma throughout your house! Simply tie a ribbon around an orange and create a beautiful bow. Use a piercing tool to poke holes through the skin of the orange. Be sure to keep the holes spread apart. Insert the cloves into the holes. Remember, the orange will shrink as it dries so you do not need to put them so close together. The orange will dry out over the next week and shrink, but you will be left with a wonderful scent for the holidays! You can hang them from your mantle or tree or arrange them in a decorative bowl!

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