How to use stockings for Christmas decorations

Christmas stockings bring joy to all. Decorate your entire home, porch, and yard with a variety of Christmas time favorites. Fill with gifts, Christmas candies, fruits and even a puppy or kitten! Make everyone happy!

Things you'll need:

• ideas from several sources, magazines, holiday shops, on-line
• Needle, thread
• fabric glue
• felt, and fabrics that go with Christmas
• colorful Christmas ribbons or twine to hang stockings
• gifts and trinkets to put in stockings, maybe a pet or two!

1. START WITH FIREPLACE MANTLE. If you don’t have a fireplace, make a simulated mantle and decorate it with stockings. Find a wood mantle at a flea market or an antique store that is damaged and at a good price. Make repairs, paint white, place mantle on a wall in living room by Christmas tree and presents. Hang Christmas stockings from your new mantle decoration. Add a little garland and Christmas greenery. Place a nativity scene on the center of the mantle. Space your stockings about 3 inches apart so all can see the colors and contents. For what to do in your yard see   http://www.ehow.com/how_5581883_decorate-yard-christmas-time.html
2. MAKE CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS OUT OF FABRIC. If you have no stockings or want to add to your collection, make them out of Christmas fabrics or look in yard sales or Thrift Stores early before the season. Esate sales will sometimes have Christmas stockings too. Any crafts store like Michaels will have items or even kits to make stockings. Get a glue gun, glue sticks, and needle and thread and design your own. Get your ideas from the multitude of images of Christmas stockings available. Be sure and put a hanging loop and add some fancy colorful ribbon or twine tp hang the stocking. For a pattern, find one in a magazine and cut out or use Daddy’s old wool hunting sock, increase it’s size and use it as a pattern. Sew it with a simple close loop stitch and then turn inside out so most of threads don’t show, or use your handy Singer machine! If you have some items you want to paint see http://www.ehow.com/how_5276125_make-portable-paint-spray-booth.html
3. HANG STOCKINGS EVERYWHERE YOU CAN. Hang some on stair rails and on Library ladders. Place some on a stool with milk and cookies for Santa. Make a corner decoration of a small stool with 3 stockings overflowing with trinket-type Christmas toys purchased at Dollar Store or from Thrift Stores like Goodwill and Salvation Army. Make your entry porch a Christmas stocking haven. Put green garlands and Christmas tree greenery around the stockings. Glue everything down so it doesn’t disappear.  For an idea for a Holiday Elf decoration see   http://www.ehow.com/how_5355218_make-elf-holiday-yard-decoration.html Have fun and make decorating with Christmas Stockings a family affair!

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