Quick and easy Christmas Centerpiece.

Quick and Easy Christmas Centerpiece

Suddenly here it is! Doesn’t it seem like we blink and the time truly flies. This quick and easy Christmas centerpiece will get you through the Christmas season and who knows….maybe a bit longer. The Easy Christmas centerpiece is easy to throw together and like my other tutorials….use your imagination. Add things you would like to add. Keep things out that you don’t like.

I like to use things that I have around the house. Dig in that cupboard and find a cute bowl that you never use. Or dust off that old red table runner and rethink what you can do with it.

Supplies for a quick and easy Christmas Centerpiece

assorted pine cones
floral wire
pliers
3 glass vases or bowls
faux greenery
branches from your yard
gold spray paint
table runner of your choice
newspaper

Directions

Cut the wire with the pliers into 4 10″ pieces. Wrap the wire around the base of the pine cone and twist to secure.

In the garage or well ventilated area lay down the newspaper. Place the branches and pine cones on the news paper and spray them with the paint. Let dry and turn the items and respray where the paint never got the first time.

When the paint is dry. Twist the wire around the branches to secure the pine cones to the branches.

Easy Christmas Centerpiece

Lay out your table runner.

Place the 3 glasses vases in a triangle shape and fill with the pine cones.

Place the painted branches one on each side of the vases.

Tuck the greenery around the bottom of the glass vases.

You can use this easy centerpiece idea for your table. Just switch out the fall items with pine cones.

Here are some more Christmas centerpiece ideas.

I also loved this idea for a centerpiece.

and this is so gorgeous and simple.

DIY Christmas centerpiece — Easy Christmas Centerpiece

So you are wondering what is going on with the flower farming…well the yard is put to sleep and I have no plants growing at the moment but…check out what a winter yard can look like.

frost on greenery

cedar tree with hoar frost — Cedar tree with hoar frost

The winter season can be long. Try looking for the beauty in each day. It might be a bird at your feeder or a yard full of frost. Bundle up and take a walk. The cold air is so refreshing!

Merry Christmas

Gingerbread houses

Gingerbread House Traditions

Have you ever read “Gingerbread baby” by Jan Brett? It is one of my favorite Christmas stories. Every year my mom brings out the Christmas box and we would all be so eager to read the Christmas books. Once we read a few books our Christmas spirit was hopping. Making gingerbread houses was also a family tradition we had. The fun thing with gingerbread houses is, even when you follow a tutorial there is always something a little different about each one.

This year we decided to have a gingerbread house contest with my husband’s family. Each pair brought their own supplies and we all decorated the night away!

Christmas Traditions

For our house we used graham crackers and ginger bread cement for the structure. For decorating used spiced drops, tootsie rolls, laffy taffy, candy canes, mini m&ms, sour patch kids, cinnamon bears and vanilla icing. To create the snow effect we used shredded coconut and sugar. I found the little cars at Target and added them as a finishing touch. It was a night of a little tension at times but mostly a whole lot of fun!

Gingerbread House Supplies

Graham Crackers
frosting or icing
lots of small candy
Cardboard wrapped in tinfoil for base
friends and family

Instructions

glue edges of the graham crackers together in desired shape
let dry
add candy of your choice
let your imagination go
enjoy

Here is a fun Christmas Candy tradition that you can add to your list of Holiday to do’s.

Want to keep your Christmas sweater free of smears? Check out our Etsy Shop and see what we have for aprons.

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A year of growing. A quick recap video

A year of growing has passed.

Still rewinding and looking over what happened.

Erica put together this little recap of a year of growing,

So fun to see it all in video.

Goals for next growing season

farmers market
triple garden space
finish flower farming school
have the stand open 5 days a week in the growing season
supply some local florists

The are so many things I would like to do after this year of growing

I need to slow down and prioritize.

Enjoy each moment.

Even if I am knee deep in mud and my boot falls off.

So many opportunities.

Garden Quotes that inspired a year of growing

“In the spring at the end of the day you should smell like dirt.” Margaret Atwood

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow” Audrey Hepburn

“The earth laughs in flowers” Emerson

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere” Vincent Van Gogh

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Here is another recap

check it out