Graham's Cracker Box

Designer looking Christmas Trees are not hard, you just need a few simple tips.
1. First buy either cream or gold tulle (what wedding veils are made of). It is cheap $1 yard, you need about 7 yards for a 7 ft tree. Then cut it into about 8in strips and fill in the tree horizonally. It will look like someone toilet papered your tree, but be patient with each step the tree looks better and better:)
2. Buy wire Ribbon in the color you want. Run the ribbon from top to bottom, kind of curling and crossing the tulle.
3. Buy floral sprays, poinsettas, and light sticks from your yard of from the store and start sticking them around. (buy odd numbers of things, it looks more balanced in the end)
4. Put unexpected things on the tree like birds, words, hats, old pictures etc.
5. I scrapbooked a few pictures of my kids and put them on my tree.
6. Make sure you are sticking with a simple color palette. The most beautiful trees are very monochromatic (one color) in my opinion.
Have fun, and rock out a designer tree :)

I am from Carlsbad, New Mexico and migrated back here a few years ago. I love to change my decor with the seasons. The other day when I was driving by "The Flumes" (pictured above). I noticed it was so beautiful and at sunset, so I stopped and took pictures. I am going to do a season wall with 4 big frames hung in a square pattern and I will change the pictures in them with the seasons. These are the Fall photos I have taken. I will post how it looks in my home when we are done. P.S. Carlsbad natives, feel free to steal my photography, nothing feels like home like a pictures of the flumes!

I love to find a new spin off Christmas Decor. This is so fresh looking. Instead of red and green. Try another shade of green like this lime color above. I love this look!! Simple and elegant..