15 DIY Christmas Decorations Under $10
The store-bought Christmas decor industry runs on a quiet little lie: that the nice-looking stuff costs $40 a piece. It doesn’t. Half the decorations in my house every December are made from paper bags, pinecones I grabbed off a trail, and string. The guests always ask where I bought them. I never do. Here’s the honest truth about DIY Christmas decorations: the ones that look expensive are the ones with a limited color palette and one natural material repeated a lot. A bowl of twenty dried orange slices looks like a Williams-Sonoma catalog. One dried orange slice looks like a craft project. Volume is the secret, and volume is cheap. ...