Continuing on with showing y’all how I am decorating our home for Christmas; I’ve been working for almost a solid week on the rooms that span the back of our home (family room, kitchen, kitchen eating area, and the staircase–all of which are completely open to one another). In this entry, I will be highlighting a couple of centerpieces that I made, one, a lantern centerpiece for the kitchen table, and two a centerpiece for the kitchen’s island. Also, I’ll be showing you how I decorated my kitchen window sills–I change the decor on the sills with every season.
So let’s start with the kitchen island arrangement. The first thing I do when I go to make anything like this is to gather all of the materials I *think* I might use.
I decided to made a candle ring to go around the candle first. I cut off some stems for the big bunch of red berries and used floral wire to hold it closed.
Then I started to add all of the accent pieces starting with a piece of pine garland, cutting apart the red berries bunch and sticking it in here and there and finishing off with burlap poinsettia flowers (they had a clip on the back, so I clipped them to the pine garland at each corner). It turned out to be a fun little piece one that can easily be picked up and moved out of the way when necessary.
Next, I’ll show you how I decorated the window sills; we have large windows that crank open and the sills are really wide, so I’ve had fun changing up the decor on them; here is a link to my Ever Changing Window Decor blog post so you can see what else I’ve done in the past.
I was really looking forward to creating a centerpiece for the kitchen table using a pretty lantern that I purchased last winter. This would be my first attempt at creating a Christmassy arrangement. In anticipation of how I wanted this centerpiece to look, I purchased a new Christmas tablecloth and built my design around that; burgundy and white would be my accent colors. Again, the first thing I did was to gather all of the accents that I thought I might use. I planned on reusing the big metal and mirrored tray that I’ve used to make every other centerpiece utilizing the lantern. Here is a link to my A Lantern Centerpiece For All Seasons blog post just in case you’d like to take a look at what else I’ve created in the past year. Anyway, back to this piece, here we go…
I purchased this candle at Lowe’s and it is so pretty!
I’ve chosen to have it turn on in the evenings and go off 5 hours later…It looks like a snow globe when it is turned on.
Now, this may seems silly, but there are times that I definitely improvise. I needed to elevate the candle just a smidge inside the lantern, but I didn’t have a candle holder big enough (in circumference) to fit the candle, so I used this little ramekin turned upside-down. 🙂 I knew that it’d be hidden by a pine candle ring, so it worked like a charm…The candle base snugged down over the ramekin nicely.
I used an old pine candle ring that I had in my stash to go around the candle inside of the lantern…
My only other accent pieces were these big bunches of red sparkly berries and pine, a Merry Christmas sign, sparkly poinsettias and white burlap wired ribbon…
This was honestly so easy to put together, I just placed a red berries bunch on three sides and placed the Merry Christmas sign on the front and cut apart another berries bunch and arranged it behind and over the sign. I used 4 of the sparkly poinsettias, one one each side…
I made a bow, here is a link to my How To Make A Bow Tutorial (Video) if you want to know how to make one of these bow. In addition, I made a little ‘handle’ for lack of a better word, and tied it and some red berries to the bow. I slid that handle over the top piece on the lantern and completed the project.
When my hubby got home from work that evening, he took a look at this centerpiece and said “Wow, that looks beautiful!!!”, I took that as a huge compliment considering he sees everything that I create on a daily basis…haha. 🙂
I’m almost finished decorating this part of the house, in my next post, I’ll highlight a couple other little centerpieces, a couple of cozy corners, and the powder room.
Sneak Peek:
Until next time, y’all take good care! ❤
**In crafting there are no mistakes just unique creations**
⚜️ Arlynn's Country Craft Corner ⚜️ 