Denise Willard: Hi! My name is Denise Willard with Decor by Denise and today I am here
showing you how to decorate your tree for the holidays. Right now, we are
going to talk about the core of the tree and how to go about applying
decorations. So, let s get started, first of all I am going to start with my
largest items that I am going to place on my tree. What you want to do is
place your large items first starting at the top in a zigzag fashion because
that gives your eye something different look at, as you look at the tree, you
don t want everything to be evenly spaced, you don t want to be totally
symmetric because that is sort of boring. So, when your eye looks at the
tree, if everything is on a diagonal and you have the biggest items spaced
out appropriately, then your eye gives, it has something really nice to look
at and it makes it much, much more interesting.
So, we don t want to just place things on the tree haphazardly, we want to
actually make it pop. So, let s go ahead and start placing our larger items
and what I typically do is instead of just using like a poinsettia by itself, I
couple it with an item behind it like these snow sprays and that gives it the
more pop and makes the tree really stand out. So, let s go ahead and get
started, so first of all I am going to start up here in the left hand corner and
apply to the sky by placing my snow branch in here. I typically place them
so that they are more perpendicular to the tree and then you can spread
them out a little bit, but there are little bit tougher the top, just simply
because the branch there is not as much width here, so it s a little bit more
challenging. So, just play with it a little bit and you will find the right
home for it. Do not worry about seeing the pieces in here; we will cover
that up later as we apply more ornaments. So, let me get another one here,
another poinsettia. So, now what we are going to do is, since we have
applied this guy and this here, we are going to apply our next one over
here, working the diagonal as we go down.
Okay, so let s go ahead and apply our second item and what we want to do
again is place it on the diagonal as we move across the tree. Let s go ahead
and insert him in here, find a good home for it, it s a little bit challenging
as I said at near the top, but it s okay. So, see these guys give it a little bit
more pop behind the little plant there. So, now that we have placed our
key in big items that are really major focal points for this tree, we also
want to move onto the next biggest items, I have actually three of these for
this tree. Typically, you just pick one or two big items, maybe three, for
three of this size. If you have a larger tree, maybe you do five and they are
little bit bigger and these will be key to give it again a little bit of pop and
little bit of variation. So, I want to place these on the tree in the key areas
and typically we place one near the top of trees so, we will go ahead and
do that, they are always on angle.
So, we will do that, so again it gives that pop at the top, more attached,
with these guys you want to be very careful to secure it very well because
they are very fragile if they do fall. Again, we want it be symmetric, so
that is what we are building out here that is why it was placed up near the
top. So, this one we are going to put in this general area here, because
again we are playing off where symmetry coming down. So, place it in
this general area and let me find a good branch for it. The next item we
want to look at is our next bigger item, which is our snowflake. So, I want
to apply these as well to various parts of the tree to give it that extra
special pop. Typically, we place these again in the key areas up near the
top of the tree, up to the left of the tree and as we work our way down. So,
that is where you want to really use those as well as one in the front. So,
let s go ahead and apply this guy in this general area, so I want to find
some good branches to secure with because it is very large and need some
support.
So, there we go and it always good to try and place it in front of light, so
the light shine through it. So, let s go on and start applying some reds.
What we want to do is start to break up the white and the crystal look of
this tree and make it really pop with some reds. Up until this point, we
haven t used a hook, a tree ornament hook, but we may have to use it for
these guys although, most of them have a long chord so, it s not really
necessary and these guys have clips to make them secure the tree really
well. So, let s go ahead and apply key to these guys, we want to break up
some of the whites, so we definitely need some red in this area, here as
you can see there is too much white and silver going on, so let s put some
red in this general area to give it some pop.
Then we are going to apply some red in this area because again we have
too much of the white and the silver going on. So, let s go ahead and apply
this guy here, you want to wrap it around several times and at the branches
impede upon your ornament just bend them other way. Great, so you have
got a few pieces of red, let s add a little cardinal here and again he needs to
be near the top because again we have got a space here, that need some red
because it has too much white and silver.
So, we will go ahead and apply him in this general area. So, the next thing
we want to look at is applying some of items that have more height versus
width and for those items we have some teardrops here and some beautiful
Christmas trees and they are really gorgeous, they shimmer really nicely,
so we want to go ahead and apply those, you want to try to find branches
that are typically have some space between then, so these guys can hang
beautifully. So, let s go ahead and these we want to put near the front
because they have got lots of sparkle, so we will put one in this general
area and there we go. So, we have got a beautiful tree. Now, we are going
to add our teardrop which again, this is a beautiful because it has
multicolored aspects to it and this is a great space for this kind of
ornament because again we have got some open space here, so you just
have to look at your tree and look at how, it plays out because each tree is
different and basically just look for the open spaces where these guys
would really shine and as you can see, it s a perfect space for that guy
because it has got lots of room to move around.
Now, what we want to do is add some pinecones because again, we want
to infuse some of that bringing the outside in trend and we want to add
that into our tree. So, let s go ahead and some of our pinecones to the
necks and we want to add them like we want something in this area again
because we need it breakup some of the silver, the white that is going on.
So, let s add a pinecone in this general area, we will go ahead and do that.
Well, typically we do them on an angle, just so it looks like it just floating
in the tree which it is. So, our next step is to then add some of our berries
the necks because what you will see, we do not have enough red going on,
we have got a lot of white and it s sort of blurriness, like in interior where
everything matches, it s sort of isn’t very interesting to your eye.
Also, we want to add another dimension of some horizontal lines to the
tree. So, we are going to add these berries to give us that aspect. Let s go
ahead and add some in this area because again, we have got too much
white going on, let s put in this general area, here. Don t be shy, if you put
it in, you do not really like it stand back and take a look and if you don t
like it, just go back and adjust. So, see now it s trying to build out and add
it a little bit a pop of color and it really adds a new dimension to the tree.
So, once we have built these core elements, we want to then finish up the
tree, we will fill in the spaces etcetera, but before we do that, let s go
ahead and add a few of our whimsical items that really make this tree our
tree versus someone else s tree. So, I am going to go ahead and add one of
my favorites which is for my little doggy Scotty and one of my little
snowman which I do work.
So, I go ahead and put him here and he hangs really nicely there and he is
very cute. So, then we are going to add our little snowman, he is very
large, so we want him to have a nice home, we need a space as pretty big
and I see something here that looks nice. He is a heavy ornament too, so
we have to make sure the branch can hold him. So, just have to be careful
if you have a live tree, just make sure that the branches are secure enough
or place it further back on the branch to make sure he has the right support
and there you go. Now, how cute is that. So, we have now accomplished
decorating the tree, we have actually added the toper or the pop at the top,
so to speak that we talked about before. Now, we have decorated the core
of the tree, the one thing you should note is not to forget the back of your
tree, when you are decorating which we didn’t t show you today but we
want to make sure you do that, because the view from the outside is really
important.
So, that is a little bit about how you go about decorating your tree, now let
s focus on the bottom of the tree or underneath the tree.