Try adding an extra festive touch by wrapping the lid of the toilet seat with a ribbon, and tying it with a big bow. I have done this and it is always commented on and enjoyed by guests. If you have a tree outside your window, turn the window into a festive holiday picture. Put dabs of peanut butter sprinkled with sunflower seeds or bird seed, randomly placed on the branches, then drape strings of popcorn or cranberries around it. The birds will come to enjoy the feast you prepared for them, creating a very beautiful tree with live ornaments .
Pictures add so much to the decorations in a room.
If you don t have any, and can t afford to purchase pictures that will be used such a short time of the year, consider making a few. These will become family treasures. You can embroider, quilt, cross-stitch or paint or draw a holiday picture to frame. You can frame pictures from old calendars from the month of December. I have saved my favorites every year, and they make very nice Christmas pictures when framed.