Florida-based event planner, Heather Snively, on behalf of Florida Department of Citrus has come up with some clever ways to create a festive and frugal holiday.
Here are a few of her cost-effective holiday tips
Decorate with nature: use materials from nature to dress up your table. Simply placing oranges in a basket can look festive
Oranges and greenery placed on a foam cone can made an elegant centerpiece
Borrow what you don’t have: Rent extravagant decorations at a local prop shop or swap items with friends and family to revitalize your holiday decorations.
Look to nature for holiday gifts: A package of fresh Florida citrus fruit is a meaningful and personal gift from the Sunshine state, sure to warm up that special someone’s winter. It can be conveniently ordered at www.pickFLA.com and delivered to a loved ones’ doorstep.
The Florida Department of Citrus is going to warm up one lucky reader's holiday with a gift basket of fruit. Please leave a comment on this post by Friday at midnight for a chance to win!
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We LOVE oranges! Especially super juicy & ripe oranges!
Mmm. Oranges. Sounds like a great gift!
The oranges look yummy.
What great ideas! Thanks!
That orange juice in the pic actually looks pretty good! Did you make it yourself?
I love decorating with fruit–it makes my house smell nice
This Washington girl would LOVE some Florida fruit!
Fruit is good.
I could definitely use some vitamin C in my diet. I love citrus fruits.
What a fabulous gift for this time of year!
Tis the season for some extra C……
This would be a great a healthy win! Thanks for the entry!
I can smell the citrus. mmm!
oh how timely for my home, please enter me
Oh, I love citrus fruits. Please enter me!
That sounds great for the cold I feel coming on!
Oh, what an absolutely delightful prize!
I would love to have a chance to win this.
Love, love, love fruit. I always have a full fruit bowl for snacking and it just looks so pretty too!
Yum! Oranges remind me of Christmas!
We used key limes and clementines for our centerpice at Thanksgiving.
Someone used to send my parents a box of FL citrus for Christmas every year. That was one of our favorite gifts! me. I’d love to win!
I love the color of oranges in the kitchen, ALL year around. They are so cheery and scream “my family is a healthy family” lol.
Also, I have seen some wreaths one can make with dried apples and I was thinking I could do that with dried oranges too…
Well anyhow i think they are nice to do this, I used to live in the Central Valley of Ca and the only thing I miss from there is the fresh crop of fruit and veggies available during peak times…
This is a great giveaway. We can’t ever seem to have enough fruit!
ooh sign me up! We love oranges at our house!
Wow, real citrus! It’s so hard to find good fruit here in the southwest. This would be a great win.
My family loves fruit! Florida oranges are the best!
Thanks for a chance to win!