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Here we are at Day 11 of decorating your home for the holidays with Chinoiserie Chic style. Miss any or want to review?

Holiday Decorating at Chinoiserie Chic
The Easy Peasy Chinoiserie Chic Christmas Tree
Get Your Bar Cart in the Holiday Spirit(s)
Tartan and Chinoiserie
2013 Chinoiserie Chic Christmas Gift Wrap
Blue and White Christmas Preview
A Blue and White Chinoiserie Christmas
An Easy Chinoiserie Christmas DIY
Pine Cones and Chinoiserie

The Pink Pagoda

 I hope you have been following all the Chinoiserie holiday decorating fun here at Chinoiserie Chic.

Holiday Decorating at Chinoiserie Chic
The Easy Peasy Chinoiserie Chic Christmas Tree
Get Your Bar Cart in the Holiday Spirit(s)
Tartan and Chinoiserie
2013 Chinoiserie Chic Christmas Gift Wrap
Blue and White Christmas Preview
A Blue and White Chinoiserie Christmas

What could be easier or prettier than filling a blue and white Chinese bowl with Christmas ornaments? Add some boxwood cuttings or magnolia leaves if you like.

Traditional Home

Michelle Nussbaumer

Michelle Nussbaumer

We began our month of Chinoiserie Chic holiday decorating yesterday with a look at Meg Braff's wonderful Chinoiserie dining room decorated for the holidays. You can read it here -

Holiday Decorating at Chinoiserie Chic

Today we look at the bonsai Christmas tree. Not everyone has the space, time, energy, or desire to put up a big Christmas tree. Or perhaps you put up a big tree, but would like a smaller one for a dining room table centerpiece, the entryway, the coffee table, or to display very special ornaments.

Some of you may remember this fantastic bonsai Christmas tree from the December 2009 Martha Stewart Living. It involves taking an artificial bonsai tree, spray painting it with gold paint, dusting it with gold glitter, and adding lantern ornaments and birds. Here are the details if you'd like to create it yourself.

Asian-Inspired Christmas Tree

Who says Christmas trees have to be fir? Inspired by the bonsai collection at the Arnold Arboretum in his native Boston, Martha Stewart Living's Kevin Sharkey created this enchanting roost using an artificial bonsai.

Spray-painted gold and accented with glitter, it rises out of a traditional pot topped with moss and snow. Japanese-lantern ornaments provide a pleasing change of scale, but the crowning glories of this tree are the birds -- coated in glitter and grouped in flocks of like colors.

The crowning glories of our Asian-Inspired Christmas Tree are the birds -- coated in glitter and grouped in flocks of like colors.
Tools and Materials
Birds: B&J Florist Supply
Fine glitter: Martha Stewart Crafts, from Michaels
Shard-glass glitter: artglitter.com

How-To
1. Working in sections, paint artificial bird body with white craft glue.
2. Hold bird over bowl of fine glitter; use a spoon to sprinkle with glitter.
3. Repeat process for bird tail, using shard-glass glitter for texture.



Here's an even easier one - just hang a few choice ornaments from an artificial bonsai tree.


And here are my new favorite Chinoiserie bonsai Christmas tree ideas this year from ZGallerie.  Buy one of these beauties in silver or gold, hang some favorite ornaments, and you're done. I'm thinking one of these might be perfect for my very special collection of Jay Strongwater ornaments.

Several of you caught a peek of this area in my laundry room in my post on Wednesday and asked about it. I bought this mirrored fretwork table several years ago at JCPenney - here is the post. When I was at Target a few weeks ago, I saw these Nate Berkus pineapples that I had already purchased a pair of on clearance for $7.00 each. I already have one in white on my bar cart and one in navy on my desk. I thought they would make a cute display and provide organization for small items like clothespins or sewing supplies.

In white on my bar cart

In navy on my desk

I saw this on Pinterest - paper cocktail napkins framed and displayed at a Lily Pulitzer store. Wouldn't it be a darling DIY to frame Chinoiserie cloth cocktail napkins in cheap frames like Ikea's Ribba to use in a breakfast room, hallway, nursery, powder room, or wherever a small set of pictures is needed? These in the bottom photo are iomoi. Sort of a mini version of framing scarves.

SWI Vintage

Crazy busy around here. Planning and renovation of my One Room Challenge laundry room makeover is in full swing with a progress report on Wednesday. Since I am doing my laundry room in blue and white and Chinoiserie, I thought this week I would focus on posts on more blue and white Chinoiserie, mud rooms, and laundry rooms to inspire us all.

My Houzz Ideabook this month is on "Green With Chinosierie Envy" and I have really fallen for the combination of green and Chinoiserie - it gives it a real modern vibe. Here are two great DIY ideas. I have always thought the wooden stands for Chinese porcelain were a bit stodgy looking. Spray paint them and WOW! These are done in green, but they could be in any color - orange, coral, hot pink, navy, Chinese red, the world is your oyster. And the combination below of the green apples in the blue and white Chinese porcelain bowl is fabulous and so easy.

Chicago Home Magazine

M&J Trimming - Greek Key in Orange/Cream

Add autumn spice to your home this fall with Greek key trim in orange. These are two favorites. Use it to trim pillows or ready made curtains for an easy DIY. And don't limit your choices to white or ivory curtains - these cotton velvets in light turquoise, gray, and lilac from Ikea would be beautiful. Other great ideas include using it to trim a lampshade, a roman shade, a stair runner, or a piece of furniture.

M&J Trimming - Greek Key in Brown/Ginger

Add orange Greek key trim to pillows

Or curtains

Ikea Sanela in Light Turquoise

Ikea Sanela in Gray

Ikea Sanela in Lilac

More ideas -