We have selected the five most popular plants which are given for Christmas and New Year. They have become a kind of symbol of these holidays; they can be given to both women and men. In the house, such flowers will decorate any interior; they are quite easy to care for, attract the attention of guests and lift the mood and vitality of the owners.
These are champions in popularity and will be appropriate both at home and in the office. You just need to know some rules for caring for them, and believe me, they will fully reward you with freshness and beauty. So, our colorful “five”.
Poinsettia
This flower is called the "Christmas star" for its shape and brightness. Needless to say, it is at Christmas that poinsettias are most often given as a gift. If you are lucky enough to receive it or want to accompany this gift of yours useful advice, please note: poinsettia loves bright, but diffused light, you do not need to place it on the windowsill close to the glass - the delicate leaves can get sick from such a cold touch.
Many are sure that poinsettia is annual plant. However, if, after the end of its flowering, you cut the plant to the main trunk and place it in a dark and cool place, only occasionally moistening the soil, then in a few months new shoots will appear, on which Christmas stars will bloom by the next New Year.
By the way, from several plants different color You can get a very picturesque composition that will decorate your holiday table or living room interior.
Decembrist (schlumbergera, zygocactus)
The peak of popularity of this flower occurs in the weeks before New Year. It is not for nothing that it has another name - “Christmas cactus”, and precisely because of the flowering time: from November-December to the very end of January. During this period, the plant is literally strewn with buds and flowers! This hanging plant, so immediately make sure that its new owners don’t have to rack their brains about where to find it during the holidays hanging planter and where to attach it. Perfect option- together with the Decembrist, give a low stand that can be placed in a convenient place in the living room. And such beauty has a place in plain sight!
Decembrist is very unpretentious, but does not like extremes in the form of cold, extreme heat, prolonged drought in a pot or waterlogging. Observe moderation in caring for it, and by the next New Year a whole cap of delicate flowers will bloom in your house!
Cyclamen
These flowers have been in fashion for a long time, and many lovers of house plants love them for their external delicate fragility and beauty. Cyclamen blooms in winter, seems to freeze in spring, summer heat is dormant, and comes to life in the fall, producing new leaves and buds on long stalks. When purchasing, choose cyclamen with many young buds, which are usually “hidden” under the leaves.
Cyclamen prefers a cool room with bright lighting, does not tolerate proximity to radiators or fireplaces, as well as spraying. To create the humidity it needs, you can simply keep a pot of cyclamens on a tray of damp gravel or near a water source.
Bromeliads
This family has about 2,000 plant species, including pineapple among its “relatives”! If you decide to buy bromeliads as a gift, make a choice between vriesea, gusmania, and neoregelia - these are the most popular varieties. Bromeliad loves warmth, but prefers to live away from direct midday sun.
The most important thing: water this plant carefully, avoiding stagnation of water in the soil, but there should always be water in the outlet, in the funnel of the leaves! During hot periods, the leaves of this plant need to be sprayed.
The gift will be excellent: flowering lasts for several months and it will remind you of a wonderful New Year's mood for a very long time.
Spruce, thuja
What could be a more appropriate gift for New Year or Christmas than coniferous plant in a pot? Yes, live Christmas trees, which are cut down in large quantities and sold in December, do not lose their popularity among consumers, but many with regret, and sometimes only after a domestic scandal, throw away the crumbling spruce or pine at the end of the holidays.
A potted spruce or thuja can be transplanted into a house or country cottage area, where she will delight you for many years. And perhaps you will even have a desire not to buy a pine tree and bring it into the house for the next New Year, but to take your family out into the open air, decorate a live spruce with multi-colored lights, toys, and arrange an unusual holiday with health benefits.
What to give to friends and colleagues for Christmas or New Year to make the gift appropriate and pleasant? There is a universal, beautiful and at the same time a budget option, which will please anyone - a flower. This article contains ideas for decorating pots and tips.
We have selected the five most popular plants that are given as gifts for Christmas and New Year. They have become a kind of symbol of these holidays; they can be given to both women and men. In the house, such flowers will decorate any interior; they are quite easy to care for, attract the attention of guests and lift the mood and vitality of the owners.
These are champions in popularity and will be appropriate both at home and in the office. You just need to know some rules for caring for them, and believe me, they will fully reward you with freshness and beauty. So, our colorful “five”.
Poinsettia
This flower is called the "Christmas star" for its shape and brightness. Needless to say, it is during Christmas that poinsettias are most often given as gifts. If you are lucky enough to receive it or you want to accompany this gift with useful advice, keep in mind: poinsettia loves bright, but diffused light, you do not need to place it on the windowsill close to the glass - the delicate leaves can get sick from such a cold touch.
Many people believe that poinsettia is an annual plant. However, if, after the end of its flowering, you cut the plant to the main trunk and place it in a dark and cool place, only occasionally moistening the soil, then in a few months new shoots will appear, on which Christmas stars will bloom by the next New Year.
By the way, several plants of different colors can create a very picturesque composition that will decorate your holiday table or living room interior.
Decembrist (schlumbergera, zygocactus)
The peak of popularity of this flower occurs in the weeks before New Year. It is not for nothing that it has another name - “Christmas cactus”, and precisely because of the flowering time: from November-December to the very end of January. During this period, the plant is literally strewn with buds and flowers! This is a hanging plant, so immediately take care that its new owners do not have to rack their brains about where to find a hanging plant pot during the holidays and where to attach it. The ideal option is to give the Decembrist a low stand that can be placed in a convenient place in the living room. And such beauty has a place in plain sight!
Decembrist is very unpretentious, but does not like extremes in the form of cold, extreme heat, prolonged drought in a pot or waterlogging. Observe moderation in caring for it, and by the next New Year a whole cap of delicate flowers will bloom in your house!
Cyclamen
These flowers have been in fashion for a long time, and many lovers of house plants value them for their external delicate fragility and beauty. Cyclamen blooms in winter, seems to freeze in spring, remains dormant in the summer heat, and comes to life in autumn, producing new leaves and buds on long stalks. When purchasing, choose cyclamen with many young buds, which are usually “hidden” under the leaves.
Cyclamen prefers a cool room with bright lighting and does not tolerate being near radiators or fireplaces, as well as spraying. To create the humidity it needs, you can simply keep a pot of cyclamens on a tray of damp gravel or near a water source.
Bromeliads
This family has about 2,000 plant species, including pineapple among its “relatives”! If you decide to buy bromeliads as a gift, make a choice between vriesea, guzmania, and neoregelia - these are the most popular varieties. Bromeliad loves warmth, but prefers to live away from direct midday sun.
The most important thing: water this plant carefully, not allowing water to stagnate in the soil, but there should always be water in the outlet, in the funnel of the leaves! During hot periods, the leaves of this plant need to be sprayed.
The gift will be excellent: the flowering lasts for several months and will remind you of a wonderful New Year's mood for a very long time.
What could be a more appropriate gift for New Year or Christmas than a coniferous plant in a pot? Yes, live Christmas trees, which are cut down in large quantities and sold in December, do not lose their popularity among consumers, but many with regret, and sometimes only after a domestic scandal, throw away the crumbling spruce or pine at the end of the holidays.
A potted spruce or thuja can be transplanted in the spring to a house or summer cottage plot, where it will delight you for many years. And perhaps you will even have a desire not to buy a pine tree and bring it into the house for the next New Year, but to take your family out into the open air, decorate a live spruce with multi-colored lights, toys, and arrange an unusual holiday with health benefits.
Having studied numerous decor options, we settled on the five most optimal, in our opinion. Making such decor is easy and quick, all available items are available, and the process itself is creative, you can involve children in it, which in itself is very cool.
By the way, if you prefer to choose any other plant as a gift, besides those mentioned by us, be sure to decorate the pot or plant, and then even a small and modest cactus will acquire festive look and will give you a good mood.
1. Lace and knitted “clothes”
If you have “skillful hands” and you know how to hold knitting needles in them, there is nothing easier than knitting a simple fabric from any yarn and putting it on flower pot. The edges can be sewn with threads, matching them to the tone of the yarn, or they can be made contrasting; you can glue the fabric to the surface of the pot. Buttons or beads, small cones or beads are suitable as additional decoration.
If you don’t know how to knit, look for leftover lace at home or buy a meter and a half of lace ribbon at the store. Cut the tape into pieces and carefully glue it to the top, bottom or middle of the pot. You can gather the lace ribbon using a thread and a needle, then such a “skirt” will give your gift a fun and homey look.
The color scheme of such “clothes” can be any, it all depends on your imagination and the interior in which your gift will live.
You don’t have the time or desire to tinker with decorating a flower pot, but the “straight from the store” option doesn’t suit you? No problem. Any ribbons? If you don’t have ribbons, you can literally buy them on the way to visit. The main thing is to tie them beautifully on a pot or on top of transparent packaging. You can make a lush bow, build a voluminous knot or several small flower pots tie it together with twine, decorate the top with ribbon and add a few fir cones underneath it. The composition will turn out quite festive!
It is better to choose a bright ribbon; red would look ideal, reminiscent of the color of the bag with gifts from Santa Claus. You can choose green if, for example, you bought a poinsettia with a head of red leaves as a gift. The golden color of the ribbon will add pathos to any potted flower if you think it would be appropriate. White ribbon will symbolize snow, and you can hang a Christmas tree toy on the plant itself if you chose a coniferous gift.
3. Inscriptions and drawings
There are no limits to imagination here if you have artistic talent, time and a sense of proportion. On the pot you can draw a New Year's landscape, a funny face, figures of Santa Claus or Snow Maiden, birds, angels... there are a lot of options! If you don’t know how to draw, find a template on the Internet, download it, cut it out, attach it to the pot and paint over the cut out areas. You can even use watercolor paints, then just carefully apply a clear varnish on top.
For minimalist artists, the idea of writing any suitable words on the pot is perfect: “Happy New Year”, “Happiness”, “Congratulations” and others. The main thing in this case is brevity. If you want even more minimalism, draw symbolic letters or initials of the owners of the house. You can make a word from the letters written on several flower pots by placing the pots in the right order. And there will be entertainment for guests in New Year's Eve! Let them guess what you meant by this or that letter...
4. Fabric and burlap
Do you have a piece of fabric left over after you sewed covers for your sofa and armchairs? Was your husband's new Scottish skirt too short? Is there a roll of burlap lying around on the mezzanine? Don't throw away these treasures, they can be used to make wonderful flower pot covers.
It is enough to cut a piece of fabric to the size of the pot and sew its edges or simply wrap it with some carelessness with coarse twine, twine, or jute rope. Pine cones are also very suitable for this decor; they can be stuck directly into the pot or attached to twine. Such a flower could well become part of the composition New Year's table, especially if it is combined with the color of napkins or additional accessories - candles, vases, small New Year's toys.
5. Eco-friendly decorations
This option for decorating pots is doubly good: it’s simple and fits perfectly with the idea of plant decorations. New Year's interior. You can use a lot to decorate a pot. For example, use pruning shears to cut a dry branch into small round pieces and glue them to the surface of the pot. You can cut wooden skewers for kebabs into equal parts and from these parts lay out a pattern that comes to mind and fits on the walls of the flower container.
Birch bark, twine, and designer cardboard are also perfect for decorating such a gift. Well, on top you can add a beautiful ribbon, a couple of cones, a lace decoration - in a word, everything that we listed in the previous options. The good thing about ecological decor is that everything suits it.
On a note!
- Choosing as a gift potted plant, think in advance whether your friends to whom you want to give it like flowers. If they prefer brightness in everything, they will love poinsettias. For lovers of rigor and minimalism, it is more appropriate to buy spruce or thuja.
- When decorating a flower pot, take into account the presence of animals or small children in the house where the plant will live. A lush bow can attract a cat who will want to play with it at the most inopportune moment and at very inappropriate place. And loosely glued buttons can fall into the hands of a baby, who will definitely pull them into his mouth.
- Many cats love to play with Christmas tree rain and even chew it. If you decide that without such rain the decor will not work, tie it tightly around the pot or glue it so that the “tails” that are tempting for the cat do not stick out. By the way, by simply hooking its claws on such a tip and pulling it, the animal can send your gift to the floor and turn the holiday into grief and a grandiose cleaning.
- And find out in advance if your friends are allergic to flowering plants! Any surprise is good because it needs to be thought out in advance and carefully prepared.
- When buying a plant in a store, inspect it very carefully so as not to select a diseased specimen. It will be a great shame if, after a couple of weeks, only a beautifully decorated pot remains as a souvenir for your friends, and the flower itself “will last a long time.”
- An excellent decor option without any effort is to place the purchased flower in wicker basket. You can tie a bow on her arm, and the solemnity of the moment will be observed.
A time of miracles, magic, unexpected surprises and expected gifts - New Year. Preparing for it gives you the opportunity to be a little wizard. With your own hands, turn your house into a fairy-tale palace, the home of Mother Winter or the palace of the Snow Queen.
What is needed for this? Available materials, the desire to create, perseverance and patience, rich imagination and a little bit... New Year's magic. Preparations for the holiday begin, it's time to get to work!
Magic secrets and little tricks for decorating your home for the New Year
Before you start decorating your home for the upcoming winter holidays, you need to think through all the details and little things. They are the ones who create the unique charm and New Year's mood. Not a single corner of the house should be left forgotten.
Special attention need to be given color scheme and the choice of a single style and idea. All decoration elements must be in harmony with each other, create and maintain the chosen style, the special atmosphere of the winter holidays.
Consider the interests and tastes of your household. They are different, you will have to find compromises.
For children’s rooms, you can choose funny decorations and add fairy-tale characters and New Year’s cartoon characters to them. Bright colors children will like it.
The living room, where the whole family will gather around the New Year's table, should be not only beautiful, but also comfortable and cozy. For serving festive table Napkins with themed pictures, a beautiful tablecloth, plates and glasses with New Year's ornaments would be appropriate.
Compositions of pine branches, candles, and cones will complement the table setting. You can put small surprises and gifts near the devices for your family and friends.
You can use citrus fruits as candlesticks: lemons, oranges, tangerines.
The kitchen where New Year's treats will be prepared also deserves attention: gingerbread houses, compositions of tangerines and apples, bright flowers poinsettias.
Oriental aromas will fill the kitchen if holiday candlesticks are made from cinnamon sticks.
Entrance door— this is where the home New Year’s tale begins: traditional Christmas wreaths, flickering garlands, animal figurines.
Decorating windows and window sills has become fashionable again - movable modules, cut out figures, paint designs.
Involve your children, spouses, and grandparents in creativity. Creating New Year's compositions is a labor-intensive task; extra hands won't hurt. Collaborative creativity It will not only bring joy to everyone, but will also unite the family and give all household members the opportunity to be together.
If you have never done needlework, do not despair - choose a simpler jewelry option. Mastery comes with practice. If you want to change a composition you spotted on the Internet, feel free to do so. A little improvisation, a little imagination - and you will have an original decoration.
The most interesting spectacular and creative decorations can be made from simple and available materials: paper, cones, twigs, fabric, felt. Preparing for the holiday and making decorations takes time. Don't put everything off until last days. New Year's chores should bring joy.
Clippings
The technique of cutting (vytynyanka) has been known for a very long time, but over the past few years it has been experiencing a rebirth. The cuttings are not difficult to make, the technique is quite simple. The result exceeds all expectations - flowers bloom on the window glass. Frost patterns, characters from cartoons and fairy tales appear.
You can make modules from cut out figures. Volumetric snowflakes, lanterns, Christmas tree decorations made of paper sway and turn at the slightest movement of air. You can cut out an entire city or a snow-covered forest from thick paper. The backlight “revitalizes” the composition. I want to look through the windows or under the Christmas tree and see who lives there. And come up with a magical New Year's tale.
Lamps, lamps, floor lamps can become magical and change their appearance. You can cut out any pattern and plot from paper. You can turn the most ordinary glass jar into a lamp.
Christmas tree cut-out toys with openwork patterns will decorate the New Year's beauty. Handmade toys create a special atmosphere.
You can turn any New Year’s picture you like into a cutting template yourself. To do this, you need to enlarge the picture using any graphic editor and transfer it to a worksheet using carbon paper. Good for cutting stationery knives. To avoid cutting the table, use special mats.
The advantages of cuttings are the availability of materials and the simplicity of the technique itself. To complete complex compositions you will need patience and perseverance.
New Year's garlands
Garlands for home decoration are the most popular option. Store-bought and DIY, electric and natural materials. Paper, fabric, tinsel and glass toys, traditional and original - the choice is huge.
Electric garlands can be used to decorate not only the Christmas tree, but also the facade, windows of the house, stairs, entrance and room doors, fireplace mantel.
Compositions with LED garlands are not difficult to create. Glass flowerpots of simple or complex shapes. Ordinary glass jars or bottles can be used to create original lamps. Experimenting with the shape of cans and bottles, with color and light gives excellent results.
Christmas tree made of electric garlands? Unusual, but very beautiful. You can attach it using transparent tape or buttons with a wide head.
The usual interior becomes mysterious, mysterious when garlands are lit in houses. The most ordinary things become magical. The lights, reflected in the old mirror, beckon you into a New Year's fairy tale.
The most ordinary garland can be made original. A little imagination, glass Christmas balls - and your window decoration is ready.
LED garlands go well with garlands made of paper or fabric. Made with your own hands, they fill the house with warmth and love. Ordinary paper snowflakes strung on a string turn a room into a winter home for a Blizzard or Blizzard.
Multi-colored Christmas trees, gold stars, white circles, snowmen, penguins, mittens, socks - any New Year's figures are suitable for a garland.
Garlands made of fabric or felt are simple, but so warm and homey. Christmas gingerbread cookies and candy canes, gingerbread houses and a Christmas deer, a bearded Santa - it’s easy to make figures for a garland. They can be voluminous or simple. Bright felt figures will original decoration New Year's table or a good gift guests.
The most creative people learn from natural materials new Year decoration. Apples, citrus fruits, nuts, pine cones are the basis for garlands.
Variations New Year's decor incredibly much. Choose what will bring you and your loved ones joy and a feeling of a magical holiday. Remember comfort and safety.
Unusual options for the New Year tree
Who said that there should be only one Christmas tree in the house? There are never too many Christmas trees. Surprise your family and friends with handmade Christmas trees. Funny and elegant, small and not so small. What can you make an unusual Christmas tree from: books and cookies, pasta and paper, pillows and logs, pine cones and Christmas tree tinsel.
The smartest Christmas tree will come from books. An option suitable for students - accessible and inexpensive, easy to make, quick to disassemble.
Multi-colored buttons different diameters needed to make a button Christmas tree. Buttons look like Christmas tree decorations - round, bright, shiny.
A coffee tree is the perfect decoration for the kitchen. Coffee beans will fill it with the aroma of roasted and freshly ground coffee.
The gingerbread tree is not only a decoration, but also a delicacy. You will have to cook it often if there are small and large sweet tooths in the house.
Unusual Christmas trees will not replace the beauty from the forest, but will complement home interior. Come up with your own versions of cheerful Christmas trees, get creative!
DIY home decorations for the New Year
From an old light bulb
Traditional or unusual Christmas trees require decorations and toys. Let's make them ourselves. To do this we will need old burnt out light bulbs, primer and acrylic paints, acrylic varnish, brushes, sponge.
Wipe the surface of the light bulb with any degreasing solution
Let's cover it with primer. If it’s not there, we’ll paint it twice.
On top of the white base we make an inscription with blue paint. Apply blue paint around the inscription with a sponge, shading it slightly
We outline the inscription with a gold or silver outline
Using an outline, we draw patterns on the surface of the light bulb - snowflakes, frosty patterns (you can first draw them with blue or light blue paint)
When the paint and outline are dry, cover the toy acrylic varnish. It will protect the toy from mechanical damage - abrasions and scratches
Having tied a shiny thread to the base, we cover it with acrylic varnish
Sakura is most often associated with Japan and its culture. Picnics in the canopy flowering trees have long become an integral attribute of welcoming spring in the Land of the Rising Sun. Financial and academic year here it starts on April 1, when the magnificent cherry blossoms bloom. Therefore, many significant moments in the life of the Japanese take place under the sign of their flowering. But sakura also grows well in cooler regions - certain species can be successfully grown even in Siberia.
We have prepared a hearty, incredibly appetizing and simply easy-to-prepare dish for you today. This sauce is one hundred percent universal, as it goes with every side dish: vegetables, pasta, or anything. Chicken and mushroom gravy will save you in moments when you don’t have time or don’t want to think too much about what to cook. Take your favorite side dish (you can do this in advance so everything is hot), add some gravy and dinner is ready! A real lifesaver.
Agriculture is one of these types human activity, the successful outcome of which is not always directly proportional to the efforts made. Unfortunately, nature does not necessarily act as our ally when growing plants, and often, on the contrary, even throws up new challenges. Increased reproduction of pests, abnormal heat, late return frosts, hurricane winds, drought... And one of the springs gave us another surprise - a flood.
With the coming of the season dacha work the question arises about growing strong and healthy seedlings our favorite vegetables: cabbage, tomatoes, sweet peppers, eggplants and many other crops. At the same time, the question arises - how to grow decent seedlings and then get from them healthy plants and a decent harvest? For example, I have been growing seedlings for several seasons now and protecting my garden from diseases with the help of biological preparations Alirin-B, Gamair, Glyokladin, Trichocin.
Let me confess my love today. In love with... lavender. One of the best unpretentious, evergreen and beautiful flowering shrubs, which can be successfully grown in your garden. And if anyone thinks that lavender is a Mediterranean or at least southern resident, then you are mistaken. Lavender grows well in more northern regions, even in the Moscow region. But to grow it, you need to know some rules and features. They will be discussed in this article.
Once you have tried such an invaluable product as pumpkin, it is difficult to stop searching for new recipes for serving it to the table. Korean pumpkin, despite its pungency and spiciness, has a fresh and delicate taste. After cooking, you will need to cover the salad and let it sit for at least 15 minutes. butternut squash very juicy and sweet, so there is no need to mash it. If the pumpkin is of a different variety, you can mash it with your hands so that it slightly releases the juice.
Lettuce, as the earliest and most unpretentious green crop, has always been held in high esteem by gardeners. Spring planting Most gardeners usually start by sowing lettuce, parsley and radishes. Recently, the desire to healthy eating And big choice greens in supermarkets make gardeners wonder which of these plants can be grown in their beds? In this article we will talk about nine of the most interesting, in our opinion, varieties of salad.
The flowering of indoor roses always comes with one more “bonus” - capriciousness. When they say that it is easy to grow roses in rooms, they are lying. For flowering indoor roses it is necessary to create literally ideal conditions. And constant care, attention and response to any plant signals is the main key to success. True, no matter how capricious roses may be, they can be grown quite successfully in a potted format. And attentive flower growers should not be afraid of this.
Pollock is best prepared as a casserole, separating the fillet from the skin and bones. Pieces of fish are mixed with a colorful assortment of vegetables and topped with a sauce of cheese, sour cream and eggs. This fish casserole has a presentable appearance, and its taste is a bizarre mixture of subtle nuances. Vegetables and fillets will be soaked in sour cream, the cheese will harden into a golden brown crust, and the eggs will bind all the ingredients together. Pieces of fish are generously sprinkled with Italian herbs, and pollock acquires an unusual piquancy.
Despite the fact that calendar spring begins in March, you can truly feel the awakening of nature only with the advent of flowering plants in the garden. Nothing signals the arrival of spring as eloquently as clearings of blooming primroses. Their appearance is always a small celebration, because winter has receded and a new gardening season awaits us. But, besides spring primroses, there is still something to see and admire in the garden in the month of April.
Rapidly growing and turning into wild thickets, hogweed disrupts the existing ecosystem and suppresses all other plants. Essential oils, contained in the fruits and leaves of hogweed, cause severe forms of dermatitis. At the same time, it is much more difficult to control than other common weeds. Fortunately, today a product has appeared on the market that can short term rid your area of most weeds, including hogweed.
Carrots happen various colors: orange, white, yellow, purple. Orange carrots contain beta-carotene and lycopene, yellow due to the presence of xanthophylls (lutein); White carrots have a lot of fiber, and purple ones contain anthocyanin, beta and alpha carotenes. But, as a rule, gardeners choose carrot varieties for sowing not by the color of the fruit, but by the timing of their ripening. About the best early, middle and late varieties we will tell you in this article.
We recommend a fairly easy pie recipe with a delicious chicken and potato filling. An open pie with chicken and potatoes is an excellent hearty dish that is suitable for a hearty snack; it is very convenient to take a couple of pieces of this pastry on the road. The pie is baked in the oven for one hour at 180 degrees. After that we put it on wooden surface, having previously released it from the mold. It is enough to slightly cool the baked goods and you can start tasting.
The long-awaited spring for many indoor plants is the period of the start of active growing season, and for most - the return of their decorative properties. While admiring the young leaves and emerging shoots, you should not forget that spring is also a great stress for all indoor plants. Sensitive to changes in conditions and universal, all indoor crops are faced with much brighter lighting, changes in air humidity and temperature conditions.
You can easily prepare homemade Easter cake with cottage cheese and candied fruits, even without any pastry experience. You can bake Easter cake not only in a special form or in a paper mold. For your first culinary experiences (and not only) I advise you to take a small cast iron frying pan. Easter cake in a frying pan will not turn out as high as in a narrow pan, but it never burns and is always well baked inside! Cottage cheese dough made with yeast turns out airy and aromatic.
We create the New Year's mood for ourselves, and decorating the house for the New Year is the easiest way to give your abode a fabulous, festive atmosphere. 2018 is ahead, which you need to meet especially brightly, colorfully and in a great mood. Start preparing now - many great ideas are easy to implement with your own hands!
If in normal times not every one of us is engaged in needlework, decoration, embroidery and origami, then in the pre-New Year period everyone, without exception, decorates their home. Intricate crafts can be done with children as a family, and this exciting activity will give you a lot of fun. positive emotions. Make your home joyful and bright!
Window decoration ideas
Celebrate the New Year 2018 outside the windows painted with frost, even if the temperature outside is above zero. Window- the eyes of the house, from the outside they are visible to any passerby, and inside, decorated with garlands, lanterns, snowflakes, they serve extra space to implement design ideas.
- Snowflakes. Filigree work will become exquisite decoration your house. Paper snowflakes look very beautiful on the windows of a private house, but they can also make an apartment stand out from a row of boring window openings.
Advice! There are thousands of patterns for cutting snowflakes out of paper - from the simplest to the most complex. Arm yourself with comfortable scissors, be sure to think workplace and start creating window decorations. The more patterns there are on the plane of the paper, the more elegant the crafts look.
- Drawings. With water-washable stained glass paint and minimal artistic skills, you can create patterns that look very attractive from the outside and give warmth and coziness. If you are not confident in your talents, just write on the windows: “2018!”, “Happy New Year!” Give younger family members space to be creative, too. Don't forget to take a photo of the children in front of their work!
New Year's door
Here it is recommended to take advantage of the Western tradition and hang a wreath on the door of a country house from pine needles, cones and bells. The doorway is easily decorated with artificial snow, a horseshoe for good luck, and paper snowflakes. You can make the composition yourself, but there are plenty of ready-made options available in stores.
You can make a cardboard horseshoe yourself and decorate it with tinsel and rain. Write congratulations to your loved ones on it and give it as a gift when you go to visit. Any crafts are good ideas for a present or its New Year's addition.
Garlands are a classic way to decorate your home.
How to make a star from wire
We bring to your attention another idea for decorating your home for the holiday - an unusual frame star. You will get a kind of 3D effect if you make crafts in different sizes.
- Take a flexible wire. Bend it so that you get a five-pointed star.
- Prepare a sketch of the star from the photo.
- Cut it out of colored or wrapping paper and bend the edges so that they catch on the wire. Secure with tape if necessary.
- Glue the tinsel to the wire.
The stars can be hung from the ceiling in a checkerboard pattern, or they can be decorated with garlands, rain, and streamers. It will hang down beautifully and create a festive atmosphere.
Advice! If you live in an apartment with high ceilings, be sure to hang something from them. This will visually narrow the room and create the effect of floating decorations made by yourself.
Photo for memory
Every person has a framed photo in their home. Refresh them and give them a New Year's mood: hang them on a serpentine or thick twine along the wall. Fill the free space with small balls, garlands and hand-made drawings.
After the celebration, print out new photos and add them to the old ones. This composition can stay in the apartment until the very end of January. You will love this idea, and perhaps you will leave the photos on the rope, making them a permanent interior accessory.
Balls everywhere
Ideas for the New Year are not limited only to the capabilities of the needlewoman. Use themed toys, glitter, decorations industrial production for room decoration.
Balls are a wonderful symbol of the New Year. They are different colors, sizes, shiny, matte, with a rough surface, made of different materials, expensive, cheap, vintage, modern, etc. A variant of the idea is to hang them on strings from the ceiling, secure them in the window opening in the kitchen and living room.
