I get asked occasionally for special holiday touches used to decorate my and my clients’ homes. My favorite are mini trees. They fit on table tops, kitchen counters or even in the bathroom. The trees don’t need to be a repeat of your main tree…many of the ones I’ve done are by theme or color. If you have a pink bedroom in your little princesses room, you might want to coordinate the color to match. Here are some other ideas:
- Silver bell collection (I have this one in the kitchen and it includes all our family members sterling baby cups!)
- Tea Cups
- Mini Family Photo Tree (the relatives LOVE to see if they’ve made the tree!)
- Wild Animals, Matchbox Cars or Action Figures
- Train Pieces
- Blown Glass – perhaps you’ve just started an expensive collection and don’t want it lost on your big tree OR would like it some place a little safer. I mini tree is great and you can wire it on securely.
Snow flake tree surrounded by Santa collection
Train Tree
Family Photo Tree
Mardi Gras Tree
Old Sewing Parts & Vintage Kitchen Utensils
Patriotic Tree
Santa Tree
Musical Tree
And the final tree…okay…not a mini tree, but this tree is full of origami cranes. My daughter folded over a hundred paper cranes for her grandmother for a gift (she was about eight years old!). Grandma put them them and only a few selected ornaments on the tree in her guest room. No lights. No fuss. Very sweet and simple.
