You can use these centrepieces for your holiday dinner table, on your mantle, as an accent during a cocktail party – for whatever your heart desires!
For the taller centrepiece you will need:
1/2 bag of cranberries
Water
Short vase
Couple of small branches from your Christmas tree

Instructions:
1. Cut a few small pieces from your Christmas tree, about double the size of the vase you have chosen
2. Fill the vase half-way with water
3. Add about half of the bag of cranberries
4. Gather the pieces from the tree together, and place in the middle of the cranberries in the vase, arranging as you see fit. The cranberries will help hold it in place.

For the shorter centrepiece you will need:
1/2 bag of cranberries
Water
Low glass bowl
5 tealights

Instructions:
1. Fill your low glass bowl about three-quarters full of water
2. Add in the cranberries
3. Place the 5 tealights in (try not to get the candle-wicks wet)
4. Arrange as you see fit
5. Light the candles when you sit down to the table and/or when guests arrive (depending on what you’re using the centrepiece for)

You can really ‘freestyle’ as I like to call it with these two ideas – if you feel you need a little more/less water or more/less cranberries, just adjust as you see fit!

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Until the next cooking adventure,
Jess

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