DIY Quick & Easy Christmas Centerpiece with Cut Boughs

I love Christmas decorations and I absolutely love the smell that cut boughs bring into the home. You can’t fake that smell, its one that takes me back over many years of Christmases and makes me all warm inside. I know I have said it before but smells really do have a way of taking me back to a certain place and time, like I really am there. I’m sure my dh gets tired of me smelling him in the morning but its a very comforting smell and one that I don’t soon want to forget. My daughters get it too when they have just taken a shower and I’m tucking them in bed, I always lean down and smell their heads, always have, since they were babies and now-a-days I get that what-are-you-doing-you-are-crazy look, OK I get that look from my dh too but that’s not gonna stop me from smelling them.

Well enough down memory lane, lets get back to the boughs…

All you need is:

• Boughs from holly, cedar, pine, etc…
• Ribbon
• Rock Salt
• A vase
• Little single lights (optional)

Supplies.

Finished.

All you need to do is fill the vase partly full with rock salt(I saved this rock salt from being thrown away). If you are using little Christmas bulbs stick them in the rock salt right now. After that Take a few pieces of cut boughs and start sticking them in the vase(the vase was from a centerpiece at a wedding). Be careful, the holly can cut you. Arrange how you would like and then take rock salt from the box with a measuring cup and start filling the vase to the desired height.  Cut and tie a ribbon around the boughs and you are finished. Every time I say finished I think of the little Madeline game my daughter used to play on the computer – it would say ‘fini, finished’.