Decorating your table for Christmas should be fun, not stressful or expensive, so to help you get some good ideas read through this list. You’ll have a beautiful table in no time.

• Many people don’t want to buy Christmas dishes that are used only once all year and a hassle to store and the holidays are over. Instead buy clear plain plates and bowls. To make them fit the holiday season, find some Christmas confetti that matches you color scheme in the dining area. Sprinkle them underneath the clear dishes and you have Christmas dishes. This idea also works for just about any other season. Instead of confetti you could also put greeting cards or other fun decorative items underneath.

• Put a red tablecloth on the table. Arrange different candles in the middle of the table with little bits of holly. Add green napkins and you have a beautiful table that your guests will love.

• Wrap small boxes with lush paper. Put the boxes on each person’s plate. Have the tag be the place card. Wrap slightly larger boxes and arrange them in the middle of the table as the centerpiece.

• Get some sheer material in a color that matches your theme. Run white lights down the center of the table and put the fabric over the top. Layer the fabric so that it is full. Sprinkle red petals or green leaves on top for a simple yet elegant table runner.

• String cranberries and bells onto wire. Put numerous hurricane lamps down the center of the table and wrap the cranberry and bell wire around them. Make napkin rings in a similar manner. Light the lamps to create a twinkling dinner table.

• Do an all one-color table. Have the candles, napkins, dishes, and tablecloth all in the same color. Sprinkle rhinestones and other glittering objects on the table. Make napkin rings out strings of glittering beads. The effect is dramatic and glamorous.

• Find different styles of clear champagne glasses. Put a gold table runner on and set out the champagne glasses at even intervals down the center of the table. Fill them with various objects such as small glass ball ornaments. Peppermint candies, marbles, beads, confetti, nuts, and candies. Put a single cut red rose in each glass. Finish off the look by tying a red bow around the stem of each glass.

• Get various mini trees; decorate them with ornaments garland and lights. Arrange them in the middle of the table as the centerpiece.

• Get acorns and pinecones. Spray paint or paint them different metallic colors. Randomly place them down the center of the table. Glue a single acorn to a ribbon to make a napkin ring. Use pinecones as place cards by pushing paper in between the pinecone. Put large pillar candles into clear bowls and arrange painted pinecones and acorns in the bowl.

• Put fake snow down the center of the table. Sprinkle white glitter on top. Then put luminaries down the center. Light the candles in the luminaries for a winter treat.