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Day 5- Christmas Decorating on a Budget
December 11th, 2009 | 
Author: It’s getting quite close to Christmas now and I still haven’t bought any gifts! I think all the uni and school students are on holidays and the shops are packed!
I’m not huge on Christmas, to be honest if I didn’t have family obligations I probably wouldn’t celebrate it… but it is fun to decorate things and I don’t exactly say no to the presents 
But the problem this year is that with saving for our own house I am on a super strict budget and decorating isn’t really a part of that.
All of my decorations are packed up, the only thing I could find was my tree…
What to do? What to do? Time to improvise!
Get some fabric scraps…
And cover that ugly plastic base!
Much better
Hmm…
Where can I find supplies? I know! The bathroom! It’s time to raid my jewelery supplies and hair accessories
Perfect for decorating: bracelets, necklaces, hair roses and more pearls!
And a gigantic Angelic Pretty hair bow!
Add the bow to the base…
Take some of your pearls and start clipping them from branch to branch.
Add more and more necklaces and then bracelets to the other branches.
Keep adding until you run out of jewelery!
If you have hair roses, clip them to the ends of the branches so they sit on the ends like they are growing out of the tree ^_^
Almost finished but…
The finishing touch… it needs a star!
Add a hair bow and you’re done!
Didn’t cost a cent and all of the pretty jewelery you’ve been collecting for years is displayed beautifully for the holidays.
Now if you want it to be even more pretty and you have some shiny beads (or a couple of dollars to buy these ones from Borders) then you can add even more…
I love these jewels, I think once Christmas is over I’ll make a bracelet with them!
I also found some pink baubles at a discount store for $2.
After lots of decorating it all comes together in the end…
Voila!
Of course it will look different depending on what kind of jewelery you have but the possibilities are endless 
And it’s a fun way to spend an afternoon, especially if you can do it with someone you love like a very handsome photographer!
Do you all have special holiday traditions?
Happy holidays everyone!
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Hahah that is cute! The pearls look really good! I love discount stores, we had an 8ft tree last year (don’t ask) and I got enough decorations to do the entire house (inc lights) for around $70, not bad at all…
Wow $70 for the lot? That’s pretty awesome! Last year I made a bunch of paper cranes but they got pretty crushed in the move. I loooove discount stores, there is no better feeling than getting everything you love for under $10
That’s a very cute mini Xmas tree! And its PINK! I love it!!
Yay for pink! Good luck decorating yours
That’s a lovely anf funny x-ams tree, Violet! I’ll take the advices, hehe!
Heehee thanks Lib! I hope you have great holidays!
The bow on the top does it!
your christmas tree looks awesome! love the roses especially hehe
Thanks Pinky! The roses are my favorite too ^_^
i love all the posts that u posted! the artsy lovely stuff =) you have great ideas and i think that you are real talented!!! =)
Aww thank you
I love pink frilly things. Thanks for commenting!
This is so cute! (I have to admit, I was skeptical when you pulled out the jewelery! :P) It ended up having a really artsy look to it, though!
(PS- The pink tree is awesome. ♥)
No one ca say no to a pink tree
James looked at me like I was insane when I pulled out the jewelery too!
That is adorable and very ingenious. You always come up such excellent craft ideas.
Awesome christmas tree. I remind as kids (we weren’t rich), my grandparents created a christmas tree entirely out of straws. I’ll see if I can dig up a photo.
Wow! A Christmas tree out of straws?! That sounds fantastic! When I was a kid we used to make them out of old magazines, you just fold the corner of every page down and fan it out into a 3D shape.
That is an amazingly pink tree <3
Love the jewels and pearls.
It’s not quite as in-you-face in person but it’s pretty close
Thanks very much for commenting!