I found some great ideas at Better Homes and Gardens for adding shimmer and shine to your holiday decorating with ornaments! If you want to add a special touch to your Christmas table or just make your living room a little more festive when guests arrive, there are lots of easy ways to do that! You’ll find 24 ideas in all at the site, and here are some of my favorites (photos shown are from BHG.com)…

Make an ornament napkin ring using a narrow or wide ribbon, tie the ribbon around a rolled napkin and, before finishing the bow, thread a small ornament onto on of the ends of the ribbon, then finish tying the bow. Even just using a wide satin ribbon by itself tied around the rolled napkin in a knot or bow looks pretty!

A beautiful centerpiece can be created with ornaments and candles. Just arrange varying heights of pillar candles on a round tray and fill in with a variety of shimmery ornaments. To fill in the smaller spaces, you can even add some glitzy and inexpensive costume jewelry.

Another centerpiece idea…fill a large glass vase with shiny and shimmery ornaments of varying sizes. Any large glass vase will work!

Fill a vase with natural winter greenery and shiny ornaments. If you want your display to last longer, add some water to the lower third of the vase and keep the ornaments nearer to the top.

Using an ornament as a place card holder is a great idea, too! It also doubles as a special gift your guests can take home!

Make an ornament swag, tying ornaments onto a long piece of wide satin ribbon. I have a cabinet in my living room I could do this on!

These next few ideas were in another section of the BHG website and I loved these, too! Hang ornaments from a chandelier or light fixture with ornament hooks…such an easy idea, and so pretty!

Or fill a serving tray with ornaments…how easy is that?

Do you have creative ways of your own for decorating with ornaments?