How to use citrus in the design of an apartment for the new year?

The fragrance of these fruits is so firmly associated with the New Year's sometimes, which cannot be left without attention when creating a festive mood. As decor you can use both fresh tangerines, oranges, lemons and limes and their dried slices.

Fragrant "bombing" with their own hands

Here you will need whole oranges and dried carnations. . Guide to action:

With a spanking or toothpick, you can easily make holes in the orange peel.
In each hole should be placed on one dried carnation.
Fruit will gain an interesting appearance if you put the intricate patterns on it, a marker will use for marking.
To enhance the flavor of spices, you can put it in a jar with a dense lid, adding a couple of drops of cloves and leaving for a day in a closed container.

Excellent accessories will serve dried fragrant balls: oranges are pinned with cloves and placed on a month in a mixture of chopped nutrition root, nutmeg, cinnamon, fragrant pepper. Fruits should turn daily and sprinkle with spices. After drying, the balls are decompressed into the bowl or hang in the form of garlands.

Candlesticks from oranges and lemons

Live flame contributes to the creation of a fabulous atmosphere, and citrus fragrance will fill the room for a long time. . It is necessary to cut a sharp knife to cut the top of the fetus so that the candle-tablet placed in the resulting hole fit. The pulp should be carefully removed by a spoon, it, for example, can be used in the preparation of dessert.

Tip! In the liberated skin, you can pour sand or decorative stones, you need to put a candle on top. So that the upper cut looks aesthetically, it can be decorated with cloves.

Also align the base will help a salt of large grinding. In the body of the candlestick, you can cut curly openings with a knife, through which the flame will be viewed.

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Window pendants from fresh citrus

You can skip through each fruit separately segments of dense aluminum wire and twist both free end in the form of snails or spirals. Billets are easy to twist on window frames or cornices with bright ribbons, knitting them with bows.

On a note! If there is dried slices of oranges, lemons and limes, you can drive them into a decorative cord or braid, alternating them with cinnamon sticks, small New Year's toys and Mishur.

How to make a dry decor?

Bright slices of fruit, preserved natural aroma and juiciness of color, even in simply unfolded form create a New Year's atmosphere, you can successfully use when the gifts are wrapped, as decor on the Christmas tree, table and windows. It is important not to accelerate the drying process so that smooth fragments are formed, otherwise the slices will be twisted, the color will lose. It is necessary to create such conditions so that the moisture evaporates slowly, evenly moved out of the structure of the skin and pulp.

Fresh citruses do not need to wash, it is enough to wipe, they are cut by smooth circles with a thickness of 3-6 mm and lay out onto the stained confectionery papers. Thick slices will dry longer, and thin losing the shape, the blanks are placed so that in the process they do not stick to each other.

Tip! In the oven you need to set the minimum temperature mode and put in it a baking sheet for 5 hours. It is advisable to open the door so that the moisture has found an outlet, otherwise the slices will be carved, and not to push.

In the finished form, citrus pieces are very solid, do not bend, it is convenient to glue to decorated surfaces. For long-term storage of poles, a hermetic can of glass or plastic is suitable, if desired, they can be shipped with spices.