Christmas is when the carol singers are calling you at the door for the best wishes; is also when the entire image is white, all it sees being but the red or blue or golden or what color you want lights which means that we celebrate, are happy and excited. It’s when Santa Claus is coming to town!
In Romania there are carols played by the children dressed in the traditional popular suits, carrying in their hands pine branches which are symbols of the “youth without old age” and of the vigour and plenty. They carol through all the houses, joyful and blushing and loud singing and for their wishes the host gives them apples and pretzels and nuts. Therefore all the people in Romania have on the Christmas table such of things even though in arrangements as decorations, following the Christmas spirit.

This is one of those traditional Christmas arrangements, an easy to make coronet:

If you want it on your Christmas table or simply in your house, all you need is some pine branches, cones, rose hips, colored leaves, and nuts. You can purchase one pine branches coronet from a flower shop, as you can make it all by yourself.
So fabricate a round stable base from thick wire and sticks, tie the pine branches using thin wires chiefly into then the external ones. Just take care that they have the same dimension for keep the round effect. Here come the cones. They can seam like snow or gold or silver if you chose to dust them here and there with toothpaste or with golden or silver glisten or lake before starting to create the coronet. Now is the moment to color the leaves with paints. Let them all dry for a couple of hours. After drying, wire them through the pine branches. The nuts can be pasted but, for a better stability, use a pin and a thread that you’ll pass through the middle of the nuts and then tie them on the pine branches. Add some rose hips above and finally the colored leaves.
If you want to create a coronet for the entrance door, replace the pine branches with offshoots of Ilex Aquifolium that will resist more. That’s all and it is a happy and educational play for your children. So let it in their charge!

Occupy yourself with Christmas table decoration. Make a garland from pine branches that you’ll surround the Christmas table with. All you have to do is to tie the pine branches one by another’s end. Decorate it with little red apples and golden nuts, following the practice presented before. For rustic and traditional effect, replace the popular ribbon with rope. The perfect combination: a red tablecloth, beige napkins, little golden bows and a lot of Christmas candles. For the fete to become intimate, put on the table some high red candles surrounded by pine garland. Into the glasses create a bouquet from the beige napkins tied at the base with golden bows.
Now we are expecting the guests. Merry Christmas!

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