Comments on: Green Décor Galore

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:18:34 +0000

Get into VINTAGE…some of the NEW Christmas decor intends to imitate and duplicate items from the past. Instead of purchasing new items that look old, get the real thing! Where? Goodwilld, Salvation Army, local thrift shops, antique stores, garage sales, grandma & grandpa’s basement, and yes, sometimes the trash (oh no, did I really say that?!). Sometimes old mixed in with new gives a designer juxaposition to decor that will make your friends GREEN with envy and you GREEN with ideas!
Now VINTAGE doesn’t mean you have to use a Santa Clause w/ only one arm or a reindeer with two missin hooves. What it means is that silver tinsel tree mixed with sky blue decor from a few years ago would pair nicely as an updated and surprisingly GREEN arrangement in your front window;) By going VINTAGE, you give double points back to the EARTH…first, you rescue something from going to the landfill, up in smoke or elsewhere AND you save yourself from purchasing a Chinese made blob of resin shaped into a form that is unlikely to become treasured 50 years from now…happy shopping!

By: Battle Axe

Battle Axe — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:55:05 +0000

you know, i hung some old used dvd’s, records and cd’s and they looked nice when the wind blew. It looked so pretty, it’s just, if you live near a road, it blinds the driver!

By: Joy

Joy — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:37:59 +0000

This year I had my students bring in scratched CDs and left over sewing emblishments and stickers (the three deminsional stickers sold at crafts stores are great), buttons, gems, ribbons, fabric scrps, ribbon ends, wrapping paper scraps, wallpaper scraps…anything they might use to create a cooll, modern Ornamant for out class tree. They turnned out great on my black and silver ‘science’ tree! We took pictures of the kids and printed them out. The pics go in the center where the CD cut out is. Attach a ribbbon for hanging and a black Circle (trace the CD) from tag or construction paper to finish the CD off. Simple, cheat, and saving kids from throwing out things they might not normally keep. They loved it!