Decorating for Christmas on a Budget



Is your Christmas decorating budget getting tight????    I know mine is!   I found a very inexpensive way to add some touches of Christmas to our home for very little money....

I was at the local Dollar Tree the other day...love to shop there!  Anyway, they had these cute Nutcrackers....

I decorate with  pastels for Christmas, so their color wasn't really working for me....but a coat of cream spray paint fixed that!  

I loved the way they turned a pale pink color when the cream paint was lightly sprayed over the red paint....or spray them heavier if pink is not for you!  

I distressed some of them....added glitter in places....used some little scrap pieces of trim to dress them up....

I was very pleased with the results!   

I filled some painted canning jars with free greenery from the yard.....   if you don't have canning jars, any empty glass food jar will do....and they are free!

I put some of them in the kitchen window .....





I had a coupe of shelves.....



 

that needed just a touch of Christmas!

I also added one to an existing vignette...



Merry Christmas!





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