Rose hips for Christmas

This year, for Christmas, I'm all about "natural". Somehow I prefer having my decorations as real as possible so I opted for a change in the red plastic small balls which step in every November. Here, they are substituted with rose hips, which, as you can see, look even better. And you can always use them for tea or marmalade after the holidays are over.

They are great for wreaths! For this one we used a metal ring and tied them around it. I hope it can survive the snow!

 Rose hips are also very good for random small bouquets. You can put them in a jar or a small bottle and decorate it as you wish. Here, I put tree wine corks at the bottom of every container and tied a bow around its neck. If you want, you can add other natural twigs or a classic purchased Christmas decor. The possibilities are endless!

Rose hips stay fresh outside to the middle of December, depending on your climate zone, so if you want to have them in your house for the holiday season, I suggest you hurry up!

Wood slices

Since I saw these on Pinterest five months ago I immediately decided I should have some in my home. My father was kind enough to make plenty of them, different in size and thickness. My personal favorites are these on which I can put a cup of hot coffee or a vaze of roses, as you can see :)

They are pretty easy to make - you just need a piece of wood for a fire place in desired diameter and shape (round, preferably) and the right instrument (ask your man for these ha-ha). Then you need to preserve the slice with wood lacquer in order to kill the bugs inside and to have it shiny for a long time. 

After that it's finally in to you for what purpose you will use them - coffee server, as I said, hot dish pad, decoration feature, etc. I now plan to incorporate them in my Christmas themed decoration, the beginning of which you can see on the last picture.

Do you like these types of natural decorations and do you have wood in your interior?

Christmas inspiration

This Christmas I intend to decorate as natural as possible. Pine, wood plates, artificial snow and candles. Here are some inspiration pictures from Pinterest.