Dried Seedhead and Pampas Winter Arrangements That Don’t Read as Leftover Fall
Walk past most dried arrangements on the second weekend of January and the problem announces itself in one word: orange. Rust strawflower, wheat gold, oak … Read more
13 Stamped Clay Gift Tags With Natural Twine, From Fern Prints to Advent Numbers
Air-dry clay loses between five and ten percent of its size as it dries, and it shrinks around the hole you punched as readily as … Read more
13 Painted Wood Slice Ornaments for a Minimalist Tree
Most wood slice ornament designs are painted for a full tree, where forty pieces blur into texture and no single one gets looked at. A … Read more
Dried Cranberry Garland for a Rustic Mantel: Ideas That Survive Past New Year
A properly dried cranberry is roughly half the size of the one that went into the oven, matte where it used to be waxy, and … Read more
Biodegradable Christmas Tree Decorations That Actually Compost
Most decorations sold as compostable are not. The ornament body might be dried fruit or wool, but the wire hook, the polyester ribbon and the … Read more
Log Round Christmas Decorations for a Rustic Mantel Without Crowding the Shelf
Log rounds are the cheapest rustic Christmas material there is and the easiest one to overload a mantel with. Most mantel shelves run five to … Read more
Bare Branch Winter Centerpiece Ideas for a January Table
Almost every guide to branch centerpieces tells you to paint the branches white and hang something off them. That turns a January table into a … Read more
Brown Paper and Twine Christmas Place Cards That Don’t Read as Gift Tags
The trouble with brown paper and twine place cards is almost never the brown paper or the twine. It is that most of them are … Read more
Terracotta Clay Christmas Ornaments for an Earthy Tree
Most of what gets sold as a terracotta ornament is not terracotta. It is white air-dry clay tinted a dusty pink, rolled thin, and sealed … Read more
13 Seed Paper Christmas Ornaments You Can Plant in Spring
The seed paper ornament that fails does so quietly. It hangs on the tree, it gets admired, someone takes it home, and in April they … Read more