Christmas is a bright, kind Christian holiday, adjacent to the new year.
Catholics and Protestants celebrate Christmas on December 25, Orthodox Christians - on January 7, according to the new style (December 25, according to the old style).
From time immemorial, there have been traditions to decorate your home for Christmas with fir branches, candles, balls, garlands.
Fir branches and candles are the main attributes of Christmas.
Beautifully decorated Christmas trees are put up in the houses. On New Year's Eve, Santa Claus puts gifts under the Christmas tree.
In Western countries, it is customary to broadcast a Christmas wreath of fir branches, decorated with ribbons and toys, on the front door of the house. The wreath on the door is a symbol of home readiness for Christmas, goodness and peace. He "tells" the guests: "Welcome!".
In Catholic countries, in churches and homes, on the eve of Christmas, an Advent wreath is set - a round wreath of fir branches with 4 candles. Advent - the time before Christmas, the Advent fast. The 4 candles in the Christmas wreath symbolize the 4 weeks of Advent. Every Sunday during Advent, a new candle is lit.
Using the traditions of Christmas wreaths, designer florists create very spectacular, stylish, sometimes simply unique Christmas compositions from fir branches, candles, flowers, cones, toys, etc. such compositions will decorate your home on New Year's Eve and Christmas.
Christmas tree decorated by florist Jessica Urista.
Christmas arrangements by florist Amy Brown Santee:
Merry Christmas composition for decorating a family holiday.
Written by Darlene Lamb-Atkinson.
Advent wreath.
Written by Caz Paul.
Photo from the page Floral Design Institute on Facebook.
Christmas wreath.
Written by Micha L. Rieser.
Even the neighbor's cats are delighted with the Christmas floral arrangement.
Written by Malene Thyssen.
Floral arrangement with Christmas gingerbread house.
The house was interactive: lights were lit in it, Christmas music played, the train moved around the house. Just a miracle, not a composition! The gingerbread house alone cost $160.
The author of the composition is a floristic company from Texas Fergie's Flowers & Enchanted Evenings!
Photo from the Flower Shop Network Facebook page.
Candles create a special atmosphere of comfort in the house. We all want to celebrate Christmas, as in the good old days, by the fireplace, in which the fire crackles cheerfully. But not everyone in the house has a fireplace.
But in every house you can organize a corner with a composition of candles. The fire of candles will create warmth, comfort and holiday atmosphere in the house no worse than a fireplace. Choose thicker candles that will burn for a long time, place them on a safe stand, and your makeshift fireplace is ready.
Happy holidays!
Candle Corner by Leanne Kesler.
Photo courtesy of www.floraldesigninstitute.com.
A holiday in life is like a bow on a gift box. To find out what's inside it is worth unleashing, especially when it comes to the New Year. But we will rather discuss how to prepare all this, how to decorate the house for the celebration and make a New Year's composition with our own hands. And we will also learn how to turn a festive table into a fabulous one.
In English, there is even the concept of "Centerpiece" - a composition for decorating the central part of the table. In Russian, we do not make such a distinction and just talk about crafts and. And yet, let's imagine that the creation we are about to make deserves a central place in the Christmas interior of the Queen of England.
You can create your own New Year's masterpiece with the help of candles, cones, a basket of toys, decorations from pinwheels and snowflakes. Whatever we choose for the idea, it must fit into the overall interior. Thus, the heart will become the quintessence of the entire decoration of the house.
Make beautiful vases from glass bottles. When doing this, wrap each of them in a musical notch to give the impression of a label. And the label of the New Year's composition, of course, will be snowflakes, which can also be made by hand. Attach tiny bells in the middle of the bottle and tie everything with twine or ribbon. Arrange these vases on a tray, decorating it with spruce branches and silvery balls. You can also apply patterns of shimmering sparkles to the glass.
If our table is the decoration of an apartment in miniature, then the focus of attention of all those who dine should be a Christmas tree. Candles in the form of a Christmas tree are an amazing symbol of the winter celebration. Place several of these wax beauties side by side, combining them in height and color. Light several at once. Who knows if all the candles will burn out during this most fleeting night of the year? One thing is clear that this symbol will lose its meaning in the morning.
Add coziness to the New Year's mood with a basket tray. This is an incredibly original, warm New Year's composition, made, it would seem, by nature itself, and not by hand. Don't be afraid to be called a magpie-crow: put as many shiny toys and tinsel in the roost as possible. You can put boxes with in the nest.
Why not create a composition in the form of a children's sled in the center of the table? Who knows what this year will bring? We will not think beyond the holidays, but rather we will try to put all the most interesting things into the sled. Wooden toys, large candles, rough-bound books - perhaps a sleigh filled with souvenirs will look good not only on the table, but also under the Christmas tree.
If you come across Christmas decorations in a set, then you should take them without hesitation. Usually, though not always, they are a design solution to the problem of decorating a celebration space. The attention of the guests will probably be attracted by the ensemble of New Year's balls. Of course, they often combine accessories belonging to different masters, but unity, a common canvas, must certainly be visible.
A delicious solution would be a candle with nuts and dried fruits. But whether the guests will perceive it as a central decoration depends on the accessories. Don't forget to add celebration elements such as lights, lanterns or candles.
Get ready for the New Year in advance, because you never know what adventures you will encounter along the way. Good luck and, most importantly, good health!
NEW YEAR CHRISTMAS COMPOSITIONS
History of New Year and Christmas compositions.
All compositions are divided intoadvent (pre-Christmas) and Christmas. They are closely connected with folk customs and traditional church canons. So, the Catholic Church, cleansed of the Inquisition after the church crusades, allows the decoration of premises for holidays with flowers in accordance with church canons. In the Orthodox Church there are no canons of registration or they do not coincide with the Catholic Church.
Christmas holidays of the Orthodox Church .
Advent starts 40 days before Christmas (January 7) and starts Lent at the same time
there are no holidays in the church.
December 4 - the appearance of the Virgin - decorate the altar on this occasion.
December 12 - the feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Nicholas the Pleasant.
December 3 - January 1 New Year is not a religious holiday. December 31st day
holy people - martyrs of alcohol.
January 8 - Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
January 19 - Epiphany. From Christmas to Epiphany - Christmas time.
Symbolism of the holidays
COLOR - Traditional colors of Christmas -red - life, love, blood.
White - light, spirituality. Green- hope and rebirth.
Blue - faith and sky, purple -piety, spirituality.
Yellow, gold, silver - the symbolism of the gold of the Magi.
Color tones of traditional floristry:
red, white, green, gold - are more often used for decorating children's parties and shop windows.
End-of-burn floristry - blue, purple, black, silver
this is mysticism, isothery, fairytale romance
CANDLES - a symbol of spiritual burning, sunlight and dependence onhis life.
In Christianity, candles are reminiscent of the star of Bethlehem, which announced the birth of Christ, of the significance of Christ himself as the hope for salvation and peace. The shape of the candles is simple cylinders, white for Advent, red for Christmas. Other colors - depending on the desire to create a certain mood.
EVERGREEN PLANTS - a symbol of vitality and protection from evil, protection from the witchcraft forces of winter (in incense), are used more often in Christmas compositions. Boxwood, yew, juniper, spruce, fir, cypress, pine, spruce, heather, mistletoe, holly are used for compositions. mistletoe britishhang out on Advent 1 and beyond and thrown away after the holidays, believing that shedraws in V myself impure force.
BRANCHES WITHOUT LEAVES - with leaves in the form of distillation of birch, cherry, bird cherry. They personify vitality and fertility, protection from witchcraft forces. In Europe, on December 12, on the day of St. Nicholas, they put rods and rods that have witchcraft meanings. Bare branches are used more often in advent arrangements.
STRAW - a symbol of the straw on which Jesus was born, is used in compositions in the form of bundles with bows.
FRUITS, COOKIES, CANDIED FRUIT - sacrifice to spirits, gratitude to good spirits and softening of evil spirits. The shape of the treats is a star, a circle, a heart.
CEREALS, NUTS, CONES - a symbol of new life and renewal.
STAR, ANGEL, BELL- symbols of the news of the birth of the baby - Christ, Christian signs of the pre-Christmas period. Stars performfrom straw, wood, dough, paper, foil, glassAnd etc. Angel stylized, made of a variety of materials.
FLOWERS - helleborus - the flower of Christ (similar to an anemone). Bulbs are also used - tulips, daffodils, hyacinths. Amaryllis (distillation).
JUICY FRUIT - apples, pears, seeds, ears - a symbol of the rebirth of a new life.
SYMBOLS OF THE FORM OF COMPOSITIONS -
Wheel - a circle necessarily with intersections, a symbol of the solar wheel or the movement of the sun. European Christmas is celebrated on the winter solstice.
The wreath is a symbol of eternity and infinity of life. They can be very diverse, traditionally decorated with candles, cinnamon sticks,
needles and stars.
The cone (or pyramid) is a symbol of the tree of paradise.
The Christmas log is a symbol of rebirth.
Basic principles for installing New Year's compositions
The choice of means of arrangement and their installation as a measure of the mood and strength of the sound of the New Year's composition.
association of homogeneities (in form, color, assortment, etc.);
identifying the most important characteristic homogeneity;
the inclusion of contrasts that create tension and thus give life to the arrangement.
Compliance with the law of limitation
He consists in such a choice of material and details, which, combined in uniformity, create optically complete groups. An example of color groups is red candles, peppers, red-colored achillea inflorescences. The number of parts of the composition or assortment of plants does not matter, but one should not, for example, use cones of six different shapes, but it is better to take two or three contrasting shapes. With an assortment of arranging greens and other groups of material, the same rules are followed.
The basis of the New Year's composition is an unequal triangle. Homogeneity can connect with the eyes. The combination of equal and similar means the repetition of a homogeneous material in the composition. Therefore, repetition can be seen as a connection factor.Groupings of the same kind present in the New Year's composition should be repeated three times. For example, in a large arrangement in a shop window, color concentrations (spots) of red occur only three times, or only three groups of glass vessels are given in contrast to the rattling glazed ceramics. Moreover, of all the triple repetitions of a homogeneous in - spatial arrangement, one of the most significant geometric constructions is always the figure of an unequal triangle, which helps to find the union of this homogeneous in the composition. The most spectacular subject is always three. For example, three groups of colors - red, green and brown. 3 forms are painted with each paint. In Christmas decorations, 3 colors are usually combined - green to blue-green, red, and taupe.Green color gives pine, spruce, fir, eucalyptus.Red color- candles, decorative peppers, ribbons, twine, cords;Brown color - Lotus fruits, cypress and other coniferous cones, peculiarly curved branches and fruits of an unusual shape.
Achieving decorative effect and order with the help of partitioning. The selected material is installed not singly and not mixed, but combined into so-called groupings.
Free space between groups.
In a dense New Year's composition, the beauty of its individual parts is lost. Therefore, free space should be left between the groupings so that the eye, fixing individual details, can more voluminously cover the arrangement.
Emphasizing subordination between groups.
Separate groupings should be different in their meaning. With the same value between them, competition would begin. As a rule, candles play a leading role in New Year's compositions. Therefore, they receive the most honorable place in such arrangements - on the main axis. All other elements of the New Year's composition complement the candles and, in turn, have a different significance relative to each other. Thanks to this, it is possible to direct the viewer's eye from primary elements to less valuable ones, providing for harmonious inclusions along the way.
Spatial design, volume.
Surveying the New Year's composition, the eye should not run into the "back wall". The space must be fully utilized. Groupings are arranged forward and backward, left and right, up and down. When placing the composition on flat bases (glass plates, wooden planks, ceramic and wicker plates), you can make it higher due to attachment devices (piaflor for dried flowers, polystyrene, etc.). Increasing the height of New Year's compositions will allow you to install falling branches hanging to the right and left in them, which in turn will create a three-dimensional arrangement.
Observance of optical balance.
New Year's composition should look balanced from all sides. One of its sides should not look more heavily loaded than the others.
Following the movement of natural growth.
The direction of natural growth of the material used in the compositions should be taken into account. Therefore, branches, flowers, fruits, if possible, should be installed as they would grow in nature.
The synthesis of rationality, feeling, experience and the joy of experimentation is the key to success!
The choice of means, the type of installation, the elaboration of details only then allow you to create an unforgettable New Year's composition when they are rational (conscious, meaningful). Each successfully completed arrangement is the result of mental work, since only feelings, experience and the joy of experimenting are not enough!
Appendix No. 12
Samples of Christmas compositions
(the works were made by pupils of the association "Nature and Fantasy")
Looking for ideas for Christmas home decor? Do you want to bring bright colors to your interior design? Then start with the traditional and win-win option for decorating the room - New Year's compositions.
As you know, the symbol of the coming 2019 will be the Yellow (Earth) Pig, and therefore you need to decorate the house in the appropriate style.
Choosing a palette for New Year's decor
50 shades of yellow.
In the new year, elegant compositions must certainly be present in your home, because Pigs, especially decorative ones, love to dress up so much. Therefore, it is worth adding spectacular colors to them. Don't be afraid to use anything bright and shiny.
Orange, brick, brown, yellow, gold, lilac, red, burgundy, purple, scarlet, terracotta, cherry and other colors of this spectrum are perfect for this. But we put special emphasis on all colors of yellow or golden. All shades of gold from copper red to blinding lemon are at your disposal.
Classic green.
Do not forget about the classic elements. After all, it is impossible to imagine New Year's decorative ensembles without traditional greenery, which will make the red color even more saturated and expressive. In addition, since the images of the "owners" of the new year came to us from the East, you can decorate crafts with exotic symbols in the spirit of the evergreen tropics.
New Year's compositions - a tribute to fashion and traditions
Preparing for the New Year is a procedure no less pleasant than celebrating. Therefore, making compositions always brings a lot of pleasure and positive emotions.
New Year's crafts are not only indispensable attributes of the festive decoration of the house, but also stylish decorative interior elements that will always be in trend. Usually they decorate a table, doors, windows, walls, furniture, some of them can be hung over a door or window. Colorful garlands are also popular, which will be the final touch in home interior design.
In this article, we will offer you several options for creating compositions for the New Year with your own hands. You don't have to be a born designer to make them. It is enough just to arm yourself with patience, good mood and imagination. Well, let's get started?
Compositions of artificial and natural flowers for the New Year
You can create graceful and fashionable arrangements of artificial or fresh or flowers that will become a bright decoration for a festive table, living room or kitchen set. For fans of stylish floristry, the following options for floral ensembles are perfect:
Candles with floating flowers.
At first glance, it may seem that making such candles yourself is quite difficult. However, it is not.
To make them, you will need:
- a glass goblet (wine glass, glass or beautiful jar) with water,
- small candles for aroma lamps with tin trays,
- flowers (live or artificial)
- and beads (you can pebbles).
Water can be tinted with dye. We place beads and flowers at the bottom of the container, fill them with water, and lower a candle on top of the water (you don’t have to worry, it is lighter than water, so it won’t sink).
Flowers and candles on the table.
The combination of these two elements will give your holiday table an atmosphere of luxury and romance. Creating such compositions is elementary.
On a saucer you need to put a long candle, around which bright flowers are laid out. Candles can be placed in beautiful glasses and placed on a wooden stand.
New Year's minimalism.
Adherents of this style will suit the following decoration option, shown in the photo. You can place a Christmas ball (preferably large and colorful) and a flower bud in a glass candy or pie bowl. These elements can be supplemented with small sprigs of needles or sweets.
Lush bouquets.
The "highlight" of the decor for the New Year will be flower arrangements, which can include greens, fir branches, citrus fruits or toys. You can combine these elements in any way you like. For example, choose small flowers for a bouquet, but add more needles to it. Bouquets with oranges, tangerines or lemons will be especially popular in the New Year of the Red Monkey.
Flowers in the interior.
Variations of flower arrangements for decorating the interior can be a huge amount. Leaves, Christmas decorations, pine needles, fruits, sweets and flowers can be placed in beautiful glass vases or on porcelain plates. You can also put them in a beautiful cardboard box or jewelry box, decorating it with ribbons, bows, plant and animal figurines. An excellent option would be bouquets and wreaths of needles and flowers on the tables.
Below we offer several photos of flower arrangements for New Year's decoration.
It is better to start preparing material for a future composition in advance.
In a separate box, you can collect decorative stones, beads, beads, silk ribbons, artificial flowers, candles, colored cords, double-sided tape, cones, corrugated paper, wire, organza, sisal fiber, felt and much more that can be useful for decorating a composition. .
Elementary simple: make a New Year's bouquet
One of the options for such a New Year's craft can be a bouquet of flowers and needles in a basket. To make it, we need: three types of flowers (preferably different shades), spruce twigs, a basket, apples, a floral sponge (it can be replaced with a regular one), good adhesive tape, thin wooden sticks, artificial snow in a can, glue, decorations and a candle.
All is ready? Then let's start.
- First you need to cut the sponge so that it repeats the shape of the basket.
- After that, it must be placed inside the basket and firmly fixed with tape.
- Flowers and twigs of needles should be placed on the sponge evenly, in a spiral.
- We will insert a candle in the center of the bouquet.
- We will fix apples and cones on the ends of wooden sticks with glue (it is better to use hot glue for a heat gun).
- Composition ready? Then you can cover it with a light layer of artificial snow. This New Year's miracle will be a wonderful decoration for a festive table or room.
For greater clarity, we offer you a step-by-step photo instruction that shows how you can quickly and easily make such a composition.
Evergreen beauty: New Year's compositions from coniferous branches
New Year's holidays, of course, cannot do without handicrafts from needles. Quite often, candles, ribbons and Christmas decorations are additional components in them. We bring to your attention several possible options for such decorations.
Spectacular bouquets of spruce paws.
Compositions of spruce branches in the form of bouquets will look very bright in the interior decor. They are usually placed in low vases, on dishes, plates or trays.
In the center of such an ensemble, you can place a tall red or white candle or a decorative candle in a glass. This year, they can be supplemented with exotic fruits, such as oranges, decorated with clove buds.
Wreaths for doors and walls.
These attributes of the New Year and Christmas are considered classic. There are many options for such decorations.
- The basis for such wreaths can be both natural needles (thuja or Christmas tree), and New Year's tinsel, birch branches, paper, fruits, sweets and even pasta covered with golden paint.
- You can decorate a wreath with whatever your heart desires: bows, homemade boxes, ribbons, toys, Christmas balls, decorative straws, cones and even cinnamon sticks. In the photo you can see various options for such wreaths.
In the next video, a professional florist will show and tell you how to make a wreath of their needles yourself.
To make such a wreath stylized under the theme of the New Year of the Golden Dog, you can attach small toys in the form of dogs to it, weave spikelets into it, or sew small puppies from yellow fabric. Such elements will make the New Year's wreath unique.
Small compositions.
So that the interior is not crowded with bulky compositions, make a few small crafts from pine needles. For example, you can tie twigs and a few cones into a large bow (preferably in a bright color).
Also popular today are small compositions of Christmas tree balls and sprigs of needles on Dutch-style wooden utensils.
Needles are a very convenient material for crafts, because it retains its color and properties for a long time. Therefore, compositions from spruce twigs or arborvitae will delight you with their splendor for more than one week.
Popular decor: candy compositions
Crafts from sweets and other sweets will look no less beautiful. It is important to choose those that have a bright wrapper. Compositions of them are considered the easiest to manufacture. Ideas for them - a great many. We will present a few.
Candles and candies in glass.
Small sweets or colored sweets are placed in a large glass jar or glass, and a candle is placed in the center. Simple, fast and beautiful, right?
To make such a composition in the style of the year of the Fire Rooster, you can place a small felt chicken in a container with sweets. On the jar itself, you can make the inscription "2017" or some brief wish (motto) for the New Year with colored markers or acrylic paints.
Making a composition in the form of a Christmas tree from sweets, a master class on video
Such compositions have a cone base (usually cardboard, but champagne bottles can also be used). Candies, tinsel, bows or organza flowers are attached to them. Its appearance is completely up to your imagination. In the photo you can see possible models of such an unusual Christmas tree.
At first glance, such a composition may seem complicated. Therefore, we suggest that you see the whole process of creating a caramel Christmas tree with your own eyes on the video.
candy pineapple.
The Eastern mistress of 2019, Pig, should be surrounded by tropical paraphernalia. Therefore, we offer you an original decoration for the New Year - a pineapple made from sweets and a bottle of champagne.
You can make it in a matter of minutes by fixing chocolate candies (preferably round) one by one on the surface of the bottle using a hot glue gun. In this case, the candy is glued to an orange sticker, and then to the bottle.
As you can see, using fantasy and the simplest materials, you can create real New Year's masterpieces. On the eve of the New Year 2019, try to decorate home-made compositions with oriental symbols, buy a few small toys or figurines in the form of pigs, make them from felt, fabric or a quilling kit.
We wish you good luck in making New Year's compositions and finally we offer a photo selection of interesting ideas that will certainly inspire you.
Master class: "Christmas composition"
Author: Cherepakhina Maria Ilyinichna, teacher of the Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution of Additional Education for Children “Palace of Children's (Youth) Creativity of the City of Lysva.Target: Making a Christmas composition.
Tasks:
Educational:
To acquaint others with one of the options for performing New Year's compositions. Learn how to work with natural materials.
educators:
cultivate artistic and aesthetic taste, patience, diligence and accuracy in work.
Educational:
Develop work skills and knowledge.
The New Year is coming. On the eve of the holiday, we want to somehow decorate our home in a special way. We want to invite you to make a Christmas composition with your own hands.
Christmas- one of the greatest holidays and the first in the New Year. Christmas brings joy and gives hope. Christmas compositions create a festive mood, and they are an integral part of New Year's decorations, so today I want to tell you how to create a Christmas composition with your own hands.
You will come across a huge variety of compositions, arrangements available in stores. Do not rush to buy them, because you can make some beautiful Christmas compositions yourself. This will give them even more meaning and fill your home with warmth and light. There are many ideas for making an amazing Christmas composition. And the only thing you need is a little fantasy and imagination. In order to make a composition, you can use many materials, such as dried flowers, fruits, Christmas decorations, accessories (candles, toys, ribbons, cones). You can creatively use colored bottles, baskets, glass and crystal bowls, jugs, etc. It all depends on you and your desire to make one big arrangement or several small ones.
Christmas compositions- it is very original and stylish, they will please you already in the process of their manufacture. After all, you put your high spirits, anticipation of the holiday, the expectation of New Year's miracles into their creation. Involve children in its manufacture, you will see what non-standard ideas the kids will throw at you. No designer compositions will be as dear to you as your homemade one.
We want to invite you to make a Christmas composition with your own hands.
Materials and tools:
Basket;
floristic sponge (piaflor);
spruce branches;
scissors;
Christmas decorations;
decorative ribbons;
dried roses.
Step by step workflow
1. We take any wicker basket and install a floristic sponge (piaflor) in the center.
2. We wrap the handle of the basket with spruce branches, reinforcing them with decorative tape.
3. After our pen has acquired a fluffy coniferous outfit, we install two candles in the center of the sponge (one is long, the other is shorter).
4. To turn our basket into a real Christmas composition, we decorate it with pine needles.
5. We attach decorative bells and a bow to the handle.
6. Using a glue gun, we glue New Year's balls, decorative gifts to our composition, decorate with beads.
7. We decorate our composition with dried roses (you can spray the roses, as we did)
8. We cover part of the needles with artificial snow.
9.Christmas composition is ready! Here is such an unusual, stylish composition that will delight not only you, but also your guests.
Try it and you will definitely succeed!