Pinterest Experiment 3 - Holiday garland

Well, haha! It's after Thanksgiving and Christmas and I'm just now posting these. Seeing as how I don't have many followers, not too many people are affected by this. But, we all know how it is during the holidays. So, these next few posts will be catch-up.

First up is holiday garland.

The original pin is here.

So I loved this pin because the possibilities are endless! You can have a Thanksgiving one, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, etc.... all you need are ornaments. Now is the time to get those ornaments on sale and gahhhhh!!!! I'm having a hard time finding any. I waited oh a day or so too long.

I first made a Thanksgiving garland. I have a small dining area that actually does not have curtains, but blinds. The curtains are a project for 2014. So needless to say that area is very boring. The garlands definitely gave the area pizazz.

All you need to make this is ribbon (be sure it will be sturdy enough to hold all the ornaments) and the ornaments themselves. I used about 50 or so, but I also included small ones which do not take up a lot of space. So expect to use more ornaments if you use small and large ornaments.

I added sparkly branches at the ends to cover up the ribbon.

I only had a basic drop of the ornaments. But if you look on the original pin, that author made nice dips with the garland.

Thanksgiving:

Hmmm, that big gap on the left was fixed after this pic was taken.

Christmas:

The great thing about this project is you can suit it to your own preferences. I'm halfway thinking about doing an Easter one, but I'm trying to hoard ornaments for an Easter wreath.

This is also a project kids can help with because they can string the ornaments with you. For the Thanksgiving one, I was unsure how this would turn out so I did it by myself. For the Christmas one, my child helped me somewhat. She's three, so she got bored quickly.