"Could You Please Pass Me The Cranberries?"

Here are some more Holiday decorating ideas from the wonderful people at Better Homes and Gardens Online~

Draw attention upwards with this inventive leaf and cranberry topiary. Cover a foam ball with leaves and stud it with cranberries. Add a ribbon, hang it up, and admire.

Position tiny trees in a bucket and then fill with cranberries. For an extra touch, bend bits of wire as hooks for cranberry "ornaments" on mini trees.

Personalize your mantel with cranberry initials. Cut out a cardboard letter of your choice (or purchase a pre-cut letter from a craft store) and glue cranberries to the surface. Accent with instant snow for winter flair.

Spruce up your mantel with evergreen garlands and clear glass containers. Try cylinders with cranberries and candles or votives atop vases holding floating cranberries.

Start with cylinders of varying heights. Place red flowers, such as roses, amaryllis, and greenery in a metal flower frog. Attach the frog inside the cylinder using double-sided floral tape. Cover the flowers with water, float cranberries on top, and place a floating candle amid the berries. Change water daily. The piece should last up to seven days.

It's easier to make than it looks. Start with an 8-inch-square clear glass vase. Cut a piece of floral foam to a size that lets a layer of cranberries fit between the foam and the vase. Cover with water. Into the foam, insert red roses, striped 'Hocus Pocus' roses, red tulips, gold-tipped cedar (all available from florists) and silvery ornaments. Thread cranberries on thin floral wire to loop above the arrangement.

Fill a vase half full of berries and fresh water and insert an arrangement, such as these roses and holly leaves. Add more water and cranberries to hide the stems.

Using half toothpicks, skewer fresh cranberries to various sizes of foam balls found at a local crafts store. Cover the foam completely with berries. Rest the balls on top of shapely glass, silver, or mercury glass candlesticks to create statuesque topiaries.

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