DIY Holiday & Seasonal Décor Ideas

Finally, the holiday season has come. It’s the season when all your cash will go to decorations and gifts. But you don't need to spend so much money on all of these things. You could make some of these seasonal and stylish Christmas gifts yourself to save a lot of money. We've tracked down some DIY holiday & seasonal décor ideas, which are easy to make and affordable. 

DIY Holiday & Seasonal Décor Ideas

1. DIY Holiday Wreath

Creating a DIY holiday wreath is a fun family-friendly activity that’ll help you enter the mood for the season. It is simple and easy to make, adding a cute touch of the holidays to your home.

2. DIY Christmas Tablecloth

Forget about that old tablecloth you’ve been using, and make use of black butcher paper. Using this you can organize it any way you desire. You can make use of the artist in your soul to paint and draw decorative ideas or customize place cards on the tablecloth itself. After the holiday dinner, it’ll help with cleaning up too.

3. Candle Jars with Lining

You can line your large candle glass jars using dried orange slices for a Christmas aroma and style. Or, take empty glass craft bottles, and fill them with a small piece of garland or pine cones, and stick a taper cable at the top for a decorative centerpiece.

4. Coffee Garland Filter

You could make use of whatever you desire to create your Christmas decorations, especially when you know exactly where to look. This floral mock garland is created out of different filters for coffee. If you do not have some of these around, you can make use of tissue paper, and then call it a day.

5. Garland Accents

These garlands are epic. You could organize yours to make it have fun touches and to make sure it fits into the environment you’ll place it in. You can hold onto some paper for construction using vibrant colors and then make use of some seasonal shapes like triangle trees. Then you can flow them in one spot and then hand them down from your new garland. This would make everything merge properly. You can now tie a ribbon using a color that flows to the banister's end.

We hope you’ve enjoyed these DIY holiday & seasonal décor ideas. 

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How to Prep Your Outdoor Garden for Winter

Winter is coming and the activities your garden has would be reduced by the day. Depending on where you stay, your plants that last for more than two years would be blushing already, and some of their leaves would start falling.

Veggies that grow annually would soon die, and they may soon start falling off as a result of frosts that will soon be here. After the spring rush and the harvest from summer, we might want to close the gates of the gardens and allow nature to take its course. At this point, all the benefits of summer and serious work for spring have been done. Now we just need to prepare our gardens for winter to come.

This article will show you simple methods you can use when you want to prepare your outdoor garden for winter to come. These are simple tricks you can perform for the garden to get ready for this new season.

List of Things to Do to Prep Your Outdoor Garden for Winter

1. Clean up finished and rotting plants.

Old plants look untidy and they could gather pests, diseases, and fungus. Would you like to see the eggs laid by these insects when summer comes? These eggs could be on the leaves and stalks. Make sure you get rid of spent plants from the surface of the soil. You could also use garden trenches to bury them. If they have diseases on them, burying them would be a bad idea. But burying rotten plants in your garden would add more organic matter into your soil. This would help the health of your soil and also make the soil better.

2. Get rid of weeds that would take the space of plants you want to grow.

Make sure all stupid weeds that stress your garden are removed adequately before you begin planning for your garden during the winter. After uprooting them, burn them. In a weed pile or a compost heap, you could still see some of those weeds that wouldn’t want your plants to grow well in peace. Removing invasive plants properly is one of the best ways you can stop them from spoiling your garden plants in winter and for them not to spawn up.

3. Prepare your soil for winter.

Most people wait for winter to come before they start preparing their soil to take plants and grow them. But the season before winter is the best time to dig in bone meal, compost, manure, rock phosphate, and kelp. In some places, putting in nutrients to the soil at the season before winter is the best time for them all to start breaking down. This would biologically make your soil active and at the same time enrich your soil.

Now you know how to get your soil ready for winter. Don't worry, snowballs wouldn't spoil your plants.

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DIY Holiday Craft Projects with Essential Oils

If you’re like me, you'll want to make craft projects for the holidays using essential oils. The people you would give these presents to at the end of the day would always have you in their prayers.

Apart from me, lots of people enjoy personally making gifts for people they love regardless of how much it would cost financially, using simple ingredients and materials. You feel proud after you made use of essential oils and craft materials to make presents for people you care about during the holidays. 

Making craft projects that are effective, natural, and safe would grant you joy you can't get from buying these gifts from the store. This is caused as a result since the ones made from stores aren't as unique as the ones made by you.

Have you given a friend, child, or relative a homemade craft before? The feeling is nice and the people who receive these presents become eternally grateful. They enjoy these homemade crafts very well and make use of them like it was purchased at the supermarket.

List of DIY Holiday Craft Projects with Essential Oils

It is gratifying and fun to come up with craft projects that we all need in life. This article will show you a list of some holiday craft projects you can make by yourself making use of essential oils. You can get these oils from companies like Plant Therapy, NOW Foods, or other brands.

These are some of our favorite DIY holiday craft projects with essential oils.

1. Natural Remedy for Chapped “Winter Cheeks”

2. All-Purpose Healing Salve

3. All-Natural Deodorant

4. All-Natural DIY Lip Balm

5. Anti-Aging Facial Serum

6. Coconut Oil & Olive Oil

7. Deodorizing Bath and Body Powder

8. DIY Anti-Aging Serum

9. DIY Essential Oils Pendant Diffuser

10.   DIY Mosquito Repellent Bracelet

11.   DIY Mosquito Repellent Bracelets

12.   DIY No. 2 Spray

13.   Dreamy Sleep Salve used for sleeping

14.   Edible Peppermint Lip Scrub

15.    Eyelash Thickening Serum with Coconut Oil!

16.   Eyelashes

17.   Hair Thickening Mask and Rinse

18.   Heating Pad for Headaches and Cramps

19.    Homemade Lavender Coconut Oil Salt Scrub

20.   Homemade Shaving Cream

21.   Lavender Coconut Oil Salt Scrub

22.    Lush-Inspired Bath Bombs

23.    Make Your “Dream Sticks”

24.    Make Your Own “No. 2 Spray” Bathroom Deodorizer

25.    Make Your Own Aromatherapy Mood Mists

26.    Make Your Gardener’s Hand Scrub!

27.   Make Your Own Peppermint Foot Rub

28.    Make Your Shaving Gel or Shaving Cream

29.   Moisturizing Beauty Mash

30.    Peppermint Foot Rub for Tired Feet!

31.   Peppermint Lip Scrub

32.    Restorative Eucalyptus Mint Bath Oil

33.   Sleep Salve

34.   Treat Yourself to A Luxurious Homemade Milk Bath (homemade milk bath)

35.    Warming Salve for Cold Fingers and Toes

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Hotbed Gardening Tips

Before this article begins, you’ll like to know what a hotbed is in the first place. These were the thoughts that came into our minds. What are hotbeds? What is the job of a hotbed? Well, this article will give you explanations for all of these questions.

What is a Hotbed?

Hotbeds were quite popular in Victorian times. After one sets them up, they could be used to grow salad vegetation in the winter. You could get a head start on sowing seeds in spring and melons and cucumbers in summer. A hotbed grants you ground heat, making use of manure instead of electricity as a source of heat. This would speed the growth of the plant, including those that are tender and any available seedlings.

Where is the Heat Source From?

Fresh strawy manure is found after treading a 60-90 cm deep layer. As the manure continues to break down, heat is generated. You could tread it down properly for it to get more compact. This would ensure a release of consistent heat. 

The Growing Medium

This refers to a mix of garden compost and topsoil in a ratio of 1:1. This is put on top of the manure in a 20 to 30 cm thick layer.

The hotbed could be as wide or as deep as you desire. As long as the ratio of manure growing medium is 3:1. If you want to make the hotbed a bit deeper, the temperature could rise more than desired and your plants could get damaged. It can easily be cooked down by adding leaves or water and debris from a garden to the mixture. It is best to check these temperatures using a thermometer.

You can make a hotbed outdoors or in a greenhouse. You could make insulation in the form of 4 wooden pallets and add in a cover if you’re making this outside.

Then leave the hotbed for seven days for it to get warm.

What Can I Sow in the Hotbed?

You can sow seeds directly into the soil or in trays that would be placed on top. Small seeded crops like radish and salad could be sown directly in a well-worked tilth. A head start could begin after you sow trays of peas, turnip, beans, and cauliflower, which could be transplanted outside. Try experimenting with various plants to see what works best.

Any Outstanding Issues?

A hotbed can only last for about two months. The plants and everything inside would have to be changed, replaced, and removed and new materials need to be put back. The material on top of the hotbed could get properly decomposed, and this can be used directly in the spring on the garden. The bottom layers would have to get composted again before they would mature.

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What You Need for Vegetable Gardening Kits

In 2020, the year where the lifestyles of everyone in the world had to change as a result of the pandemic and the lockdown, people have learned new hobbies to prevent boredom and to find small joys during this tough time.

Indoor gardening is a fun and sustainable hobby. You could easily learn how to grow your food. Though you might not get results fast, it will eventually help spice up your meals. Here are some vegetable gardening kits to help you get started.

Things You Need for Your Vegetable Garden

1. Funky Veg & Psychedelic Salad Kit, Plant Theatre

This kit comes with labels, peat blocks, pots, and instructions. It also comes with red Brussels sprouts, purple carrots, yellow courgettes, stripy tomatoes, and Swiss chard.

Usually planted in spring, making it the best time for your skills to get tested for you to reap the rewards.

2. AvoSeedo Grow Your Avocado, Amazon

Using this, you prevent everyone from telling you that you spend too much money eating avocado toast at restaurants. Now you can make your very own avocados and avocado toast.

This kit helps you leave an avocado seed on flow and let it germinate. All you need to do is change the water. Once the seed has rooted, plant it in the pot that was provided and watch your wonderful avocado grow.

3. Grow Your Detox Juice, Firebox

This set is very affordable. It is great for people who enjoy the consumption of juices. Using this handy kit, you can grow your very own detoxification juice.

This kit has a bag and the bag contains all you need to grow your very own detoxification juice in your backyard. You have all the necessary items and materials to grow wheatgrass from the bag. You should just ship off and stick into your blender along with any other thing you want.

4. Vegetable Growing Kits for Children

These are great for your kids. These kits aim to teach young ones about seed germination and the plant care process. They're great for kids that love watching plants grow.

This kit would help them learn how to grow spinach, small carrots, beans, and other lovely vegetables. It would also help give them the desire to consume veggies they grew themselves, leading to a healthy lifestyle for you and your young ones at home.

These are the simple things you need for your indoor vegetable garden. With these vegetable gardening kits, you're on the right path, and before you know it, you’ll have a beautiful handmade vegetable garden that you’ll be proud of.

Need more help growing healthy crops? Try Flea & Tick Control Yard + Garden Concentrate by Wondercide. It’s a safe and natural way to keep pests off your plants.

Good luck, and happy gardening!

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