Simple Silver Christmas Centerpiece

Yesterday was Christmas music and decorating and getting excited for all the approaching holiday festivities!

As I was wrapping up, I realized I didn't have a plan for a centerpiece but then inspiration struck!

Two awesome wood stars, a vase, silver ball ornaments, fishing line and some Epsom salts equals a simple silver centerpiece.

I wanted the stars to hang over the edges of the vase so I had to devise a plan.  I used fishing line looped though the wire and then tied it with a slip knot through one of the ornaments.  I then tucked the ends of the fishing wire into the top of the ornament.

After filling with salt, I placed the ornaments that were attached to the stars in the bottom of the vase and then arranged the other ornaments on top to weight them down and keep the fishing line hidden in the corner.

I added a pretty mercury candle I was gifted on one side and two star shaped napkin holders on the other to complete the centerpiece.

Crocheted Christmas Wreath

I make myself wait until after Thanksgiving to decorate for Christmas, but since I have to be prepared for Christmas, I definitely work on projects whenever I have the chance. While in the West Bottoms, I found the "Merry Christmas" sign for $5 and couldn't pass it up. At first, I was just going to hang it on our door with some fun ribbon.  Then I remembered - I wanted to make a crocheted wreath like the ones I saw in Crochet at Home. I purchased a 16" wreath and gathered some Christmas-y yarn and got to work!

I chose the white wreath over a green wreath because I was worried the green would start crumbling.  This was super simple and just took a few hours.  

There weren't step-by-step instructions in the book but I found a great tutorial (with step-by-step pictures!) on goodknits.com (and the wreath on the page is gorgeous). I had never done anything like this so it was really helpful to have step-by-step pictures. I crocheted a chain loop to create the hanger.

For the green edging, I joined with a slip stitch to the first single crochet.  I then chained three and made a slip stitch in the back of every fourth single crochet. Nothing fancy, just nice and simple.  I then used a chain stitch to connect the sign to the wreath.

Merry (early) Christmas!

There are a lot of really cute crafts in the Crochet at Home Book.  I'm looking forward to making the nesting dolls!