Decorating for the Holidays

Being December, we challenged ourselves to make a festive Holiday arrangement for our kitchen table in this lovely, eye-shaped glass bowl we had sitting around the house.

To add to this, we recently purchased some red and white Christmas ornaments from Michaels. They only cost around $2.00 for 8 cute ornaments, and they came in at least 10 different varieties and color schemes!

We thought the ornaments would look good in the bowl with some green, which we decided to get from cutting some evergreen branches from outside. And living in Maine, we had numerous different types of greens to choose from! We ended up cutting some white pine and blue spruce, but we ultimately chose to use Hemlock branches for the base because they were a little more petite and fit nicely in the bowl around the focal point of our arrangement, an old burgundy-colored candle we had hanging around the house. To add a different, green texture, we added some Myrtle (which grows abundantly by our house and reminds us of mistletoe).

After finishing the arrangement, we had some left-over evergreen clippings. We also had this beautiful square glass jar, which we've been dying to do something with. So we just added some leftover branches, ornaments, and some fake snow. We think looks pretty festive for a living room, kitchen, or entry way!

(We're still looking for more ideas for the jar so let us know if you have any. We'd love to hear your ideas!)