HOW TO DECORATE A CHRISTMAS TREE WITH DECO MESH | DECK THE HALLS Pt 3

Hi everyone it's Nisha. So today I am going to show you how I decorate my Christmas tree. You don't have to do it the same way. I've got a bit of OCD so I like my things to be spaced out evenly. I also always choose a color theme. So I like to have two or three colors, no more than four in my Christmas tree. So this year I am doing purple, silver and lime green. As you can see I have already started on it because if I had to video it all it would just take all day. So but I'll explain to you how I have done it. So obviously first of all you need your tree. Mine is Colorado spruce, seven foot tall. You can buy pre-lit trees. I've done lights on my tree myself which took me forever but it is now like a pre-lit tree. People ask me why didn't I just buy a tree with lights on it already and the reason is because well all the trees that I have seen that are pre-lit have warm white lights and I like my lights you know that really bright cool white. Especially with purples I think it looks better. So you put your lights on first and then you should really put a topper. I still don't have a topper because I haven't decided yet what I want as my topper. I have one of these silver bows which I just bought in a what was it in the wrench which is a home store that has quite cheap stuff in and this wasn't very expensive. So I might put that or I might make a bow out of my deco mesh. So as you can see I have deco mesh on my tree and you can put the deco mesh in different ways. You can go sort of diagonally, you can go in a zigzag or you can go down or you can just go randomly it's up to you. I went all the way down so I looked where the front of my tree is and because my door is over there so when you walk in that is the front of my tree. So I started with that and then I went off to the sides. So I've got five of these garlands in total. Okay so I have used I think this is 20 inch deco mesh which has silver with silver metallic thread because you can get them without any metallic and then I have bought this is like a sparkly tulle and this is I think six inches so I bought it in purple and like a cerise pink and what I did I'll show you how I did my how I started off. So you take your deco mesh on one side of it I put the purple on one side of it pink. You start from about here because you are going to make like a balloon bend it and you make like a first puff and that's how I attached it to the top and how I attach it is basically you take one of the branches and you wrap it around. Now I've got a problem with this tree because the ends of my tree are true to life looking so they don't bend so well so in some places I had to attach it with a wire but most of it if you push it right in because the other branches inside are much more bendy then that was fine. So I basically let me show you actually just show you here and then you hold it quite taut gather it again puff it up just make sure that your puffs are the same color and again attach it to your tree with with a branch and you go like this down your tree so it's really really easy it looks so intricate and lovely but it is the easiest thing and I think deco mesh ribbons add such drama to your tree and also if your tree is you know if you've got an old tree and it's a bit patchy and it's got some holes this is a fabulous way to cover all that. So let me take that off because I'm not I don't think I'm going to be putting any more mesh on my tree but you never know. Okay so that's what I did first sorry I've got Louis here trying to eat my ribbon then I've got because I have some lime green as well so I wanted to incorporate some green I have just this organza ribbon I don't know how this one is 50 millimeters 20 meters fully with wired edges and as you can see after I've done my garlands then I went on the side ones and I just wrapped them around just to add a bit of green I didn't do it on that one we don't have to do it on all of them what I did on that one instead is put these beads and these beads are just like a big row of beads and all I did is again went like this and attach the beads very you just wrap it around each branch so that's for the garland and now I like to work in areas so what I did first is put those big flowers and these are just like sparkly flowers on clips and as you can see of where the garland is pinch that's where I've put few of them I've got also purple ones so I just scattered them but in some sort of pattern and then I started putting on my baubles and what I did first is I started with this so I've made like a triple decoration and let me show you here with the smaller ones I basically took three baubles I put chenille pipe cleaner through them twist it and then attach it like this to the branch it gives like a nice focal point and as you can see I sort of work in triangles and honestly you don't have to do it that way you know I sometimes wish that I could just plug things any old how and be happy but it actually gives me physical discomfort when things are not the way I want them to be so I've started with this one so in the middle then I went down here then I have them again here and I've got three here and then once I've have that I should really take this off so they are not um confusing so I hope you can see the pattern how I've got this okay so they were like my biggest bowl I wish I had bigger ones but I just pulled out what I've got so then I started with smaller bowls and I did it in the same color it's nice if they have all different patterns and different finishes and then if you look I started to place them in between the big triangle so you have the big triangle here and I want it like sort of in the middle of that so I work in so I put like my biggest focal points on first okay and then as you can see I mean I put one here and then in the middle of that triangle one here and then one down there so I stand back so you can see the pattern hopefully but like I said again you don't have to do it that way I just like things to be quite orderly and symmetrical so from there on you can just do whatever you could start filling up inside the tree because I think it's quite nice when you've got gaps to have things inside the tree or you could start hanging some nicer special pieces like this on branches they stick out so because you want these long ones to be visible and hang so for example I could hang one here I could hang one here because I've got a nice big space when that can hang then I can put one here and so on so now as you see we've got this area to fill up I think it's just much easier if you make yourself these spaces these areas then you can work in a so what I will do now I will go around and put my long hanging bits and then I come back and show you some more okay now because I've got so many ribbons and I've got also this I think this is just five inch it's a glitter tulle you know tulle that you make tutus from and all this stuff I purchased on ebay there is so much different ribbons or garden centers anything like this and any places like this will sell similar stuff so what I'm thinking is to put these together and maybe stick them just in small places somewhere in between that way I will fill up again more bold spaces and but that might change I don't know I am it's not like I decorated this tree took it all off and I know what I'm doing it's just trial and error so I put bits on it I stand back I see if I like it if I like it I leave it if I don't I change it so for example I could stick this here and I'm again wrapping the branch around it puff it up a bit and attach it with another branch there and I think with this one you can just go in any pattern I don't know yet what I'm going to do I will put it all on and I see how it looks if I like it then I will carry on okay so I walk you through the next step because what I've decided to do is take this ribbon which has the corresponding colors purples greens and pinks and this glitter tulle and I'm going to fill in sort of going in zigzag fashion these spaces only at the front I'm not going to do the back in fact I only put my nicest things at the front where people can see it and in the back I put baubles that I don't like just so there is something there so I will finish that and then I come back and we will be hanging more decorations okay so the next stage I finished with that ribbon in the middle and I just hung everywhere these um these longer bits on the branches that sticking right out and I did it all in one color so you work in colors so we've started with the three main colors then I started with all the purples now I will place some silver baubles where I can see spaces and then the green ones if you see that your bauble when you hang it is too long and sits awkwardly like this just cut this off and put a pipe cleaner through and tie it really closely to the branch so I also have some of these fillers and you can just poke them anywhere in a tree I've put one here then I have some silver ones that I've pushed in the back so just to fill up your empty spaces and now basically I'm just looking around where I can put more stuff because for me more is more at Christmas um I like my tree to look really really full so there is lots of things to look at okay so my topper is done it's huge there it is I've made it from the deco mesh and all the ribbon and I put some baubles cluster so that's the finished project I think that doesn't mean that I'm not going to go and add more stuff to it but I am quite happy with it I hope you enjoyed it thank you very much for watching and I see you soon bye