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How to Decorate Your Home in the Glitterati Theme for Xmas

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One particularly popular trend for decorating your home this Christmas is the Glitterati theme. This is a theme in which everything is gold must rule: like the saying “All that glitters is not gold”- except this time it is true. All that glitters must be painted or colored gold and silver for this Christmas theme to be successful.

Technically silver symbolizes the moon and gold symbolizes the sun. The moon means wisdom and the sun means hope. All of your Christmas ornaments on the tree, mantel, stair case or elsewhere should be this color. You can get Christmas balls in polished, matte, paralyzed and shiny colors.

Tie hundreds of these balls together to make a gorgeous, opulent Christmas garland that can be hung on the staircase banister or as a garland on the mantelpiece. They also look good as a garland on a chandelier or hung individually as balls from the chandelier frame.

A beautiful centerpiece can be made by filling a glass tiramisu container with gold ornaments. You can then use gold dinner ware to add an even stricter gold shine to your table setting. One tip is to know that gold looks very elegant against a natural wood table. It is much hipper to lay out your table on bare wood then cloth if you are using this glitterati theme for your table. You can also use tiny Christmas balls wrapped with gold ribbon to wrap your napkins together.

A very elegant and simple craft project is to make an enormous wreathe (think the size of a hula hoop out of many different sized shiny gold and silver Christmas bars. This can be showcased one large wall in your home.

You can also make small hanging pendants out of clumps of small silver balls and hang them by transparent thread in a window where they will catch the light.

For another wonderful effect wrap a few presents in silver and gold wrap and make sure that there are no patterns. You can also attach gold and silver balls to the top of the present.

You can even hang very tiny balls on the edge of your Christmas cocktails so people can identify whose glass belongs to whose.

If the “gold on gold” effect becomes a bit much for you then you can always tone it down by using a bit of bronze or pewter in your color mix. Soft lighting also helps this look less showy and more elegant.

How to Decorate Your Room in the Cherry Blossom Girl Style

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The Cherry Blossom Girl style is a look that comes from a young Parisian blogger. Her simple, quirky clothing and room décor looks have become very hip and are influencing everyone from Lady Gaga to Anne Hathaway.

To make your bedroom look like hers you must first paint it all a light baby pink. This is a very girly look. Stencils in a whimsical Victorian or Art Deco style can then be added. Hand painted pink and gold pictures of goldfish embellish furniture and walls every now and then. This gives the look a bit of a shabby chic effect.

A collection of Teddy bears and Japanese cartoon character doors lined up with shells, bamboo fronds and a collection of old cassette tapes give this room an elegant look. Another nice touch is a collection of Lolita style heart shaped glasses pinned to the wall for an extra decorative effect.

The bamboo fronds can be placed in a tall ornate crystal vase. The bigger the bamboo stalks and the more curled and distorted they are, the better.

Stuff can be stored in hat boxes of all shapes and sizes as long as they are pink, silver or white in color. Cookie tins in pink, silver and white are also an option. Black antique lacquered Japanese jeweler boxes and hand held mirrors are also an option.

Above the bed must be the teenage effect of your favorite fashionable images ripped out of magazines and then mounted on pieces of textured watercolor paper. The main feature should be beautiful young women in repose wearing Victorian or Japanese clothing. The photos should have that pink, white and black theme to them. Pictures of novelties from the Victorian era also belong on this type of display of images.

On the bed white or dove grey line along with linens with tiny violet or rose floral best get across this shabby but very romantic and sexy look for a bedroom.

Lighting is very important if this look is going to succeed. One touch that is part of the overall enchantment of the style is round paper Chinese linters in pink and white lining the walls. The lamp shades themselves should be pink or white satin and the lamp stands should be knobs of crystal. An antique white Victorian chandelier is the crowning touch. A ceramic frame which you can also hang your necklaces and chains is also absolutely perfect for this look.