Some quick, easy and inexpensive ideas on how you can create holiday ornaments using items easily found around the home!

• Use sentimental items that will touch your heart, or share a story. Favorite ideas of The Budget Decorator? Baby booties, dried flowers from a special bouquet or even your Grandmothers silverware!
• Ordinary items that make you smile can be found in cupboards and drawers. Just tie on a ribbon, and enjoy! Cookie cutters, costume jewelry or even hot wheel toy cars are great starter ideas.
• Use a little felt or craft foam from the craft store, and create simple shapes such as stockings or stars. Use a glitter glue pen to add names or inspirational words, such as “Wish” or “Believe”.
• You can order really affordable kits to create adorable ornaments. I use OrientalTrading.com, as they are really affordable, and have a great selection! This is also a great way to get the kids involved, as the only skill that is required is a little glue.
• Utilize your local dollar shop. I use packs of small colored ball ornaments not only on my tree, but also piled on display shelves or in bowls. Pretty hard to tell that they aren’t expensive glass balls.
• Finally, stock up on some wire edge ribbon, and create bows to decorate the tree, the bedposts or even to tie the guest towels.

Remember, it's not how much you spend on holiday decorating...it's the care you put into it!

Kathy Wilson is a home and garden writer, author and consultant and is the home decorating expert for LifetimeTV.com. Visit her for more home and garden ideas at http://www.TheBudgetDecorator.com, http://www.TheGardenGlove.com and http://www.TheBudgetChef.com. Also visit her at http://www.Women-on-the-Net.com where any woman can learn to make money on the internet!