My Best Decorating Trick This Year

This year I found a new trick for putting together our Christmas decorations this year.  It all began when I read a post on Tinsel & Co's blog about how to decorate a tree.  She recommended using green pipe cleaners to hang ornaments, so that you don't end up with stringy-looking wires all over your tree.  After having read that tip, but before I started decorating, I found a cool thing at the Dollar Tree.

These are pipe cleaners, but they look like an artificial Christmas tree limb.  The package contains twelve pieces, each about a foot long.  I picked up two packages, and have been using them all over the house this year.

For instance, I used them to put together two swag branches to create one swag.

Can you see the pipe cleaner?  Nope!

I also used them to hang ornaments on our trees.  Can you see them?  Barely!

For only $2 I've made all my trees look so much more clean and pretty, hiding messy hanging strings and wires.   I highly recommend decorating this way!