The famous "white Christmas" , from which adults swear so often to have always experienced them in their childhood, is actually an extremely rare event in our latitudes - and "always", although the time has always been meant since the beginning of regular weather records.
The fact that this “white Christmas” in Germany is roughly as likely as adequate through -scale oil price cuts to the consumer has slowly got around in Internet pages.
So it is only understandable that the producers of Christmas decorations also discovered at some point that nature does not satisfy the longing for a "white Christmas" and that they can step in: The "white winter forest in the home" the Christmas decoration trend 2014 by the EFSA (European floral and lifestyle suppliers association)

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"Pure Perfect" is called the trendy style, modern and puristic it should present himself, with different white tones, with silver, with very light green. Ice crystals on the window and snowballs (without prescribed place) were declared "must" that the whole decoration should have something to do with snow and winter forests, many white decorative pieces and a lot of glittering are offered in stores, even artificial snow owls were spotted at furnishing fairs.
Nice for you, "pure perfect" in no time with inexpensive means and a lot of fun yourself:
Different white tones can be designed with a collection of bed sheet or the harvest-premature fleece of the last garden season or white wallpaper as a snow landscape (substructure from cardboard boxes, for example), perhaps creatively "tied up" with washable colors, silver controls aluminum foil or the film on the curd package, many plants bring from the cress to the poinsop Accents.
Ice crystals can be cut from the walls of a Tetra Pak and hung on the window, snowballs can be made from Styrofoam balls with modelling bandage (see YouTube video) or from cotton wool ( brigitte.de ) or from white wool.
If you want to drive it onto the top-here you will find image templates of your personal snow owl, to print out, cut out of the box and paint white, and a guide for a snowy owl from wool threads.
Most of a few branches of white and wind around with fairy lights, or tinker a few houses made of cardboard, paint white and illuminate the windows lined with colorful transparent paper from the inside with LED tea or mini light chains , arrange everything nicely, and you're ready to get a magnificent white winter landscape ...
More fancy "pure cosiness"?
If describing the "Pure Perfect" scenario brings to mind hundreds of chocolate-smeared toddler hands turning "pure perfection" into "smeared dissolution," this trend might not be quite right for you after all.
Never mind, interior decorators have thought this way too, "natural-looking Christmas decorations" the second Christmas decorating trend of 2014: "Materials and motifs from the forest have served as inspiration for the industry ," explained an industry representative at a trade fair. "It's really striking that real pine cones and branches are being used now."
What, you've been doing this for years, since your eldest turned three?
Well, the trade depends on the taste of the masses that is carefully explored, so the finding of ideas takes longer ... We also believe that you are tinkering with your children, after all you read an art blog and are one of the people with fun creativity - but at least it should be mentioned that they are just in trend ...
But you probably prefer to come up with trends yourself anyway, and your Christmas tree looks completely different – in this case, we are happy if we could contribute some creative suggestions and wish you
A wonderful Advent and Merry Christmas!











