This weekend, Josh declared that we would finish all of the decorating. Well, surprise, surprise, we're only about 85% finished (and may never be done!) I spent all day Saturday cleaning up, fixing the tree in the dining room (I decided in lieu of a star to go with a giant bow which took up the majority of the time) and perfecting our mantle. While I was trimming the inside, Josh set up outdoors. He hung some garland around the door only to decide that it was too thin (which it was.) On our walk around the block, Josh spotted another house with garland around the door which was lush and thick. It was then that I diagnosed Josh with "garland envy." After that, Josh decided we had to hit up the craft store immediately to spruce up our trimmings in order to have the thickest, manliest garland on the block (overcompensating?)
The inspiration: a couple of months ago, we had both decided that our house should look like this:
So, that was the original plan. Unfortunately, I figured by the time I bought all the garland and the decorations to embellish it, I would have to spend a fortune. So, in the spirit of savings we decided to buy some regular $5 garland and add in some "fancy" floral garland from the craft store (on sale for 40% off.) After much back and forth on how this should be done, it was decided that we should double up on the green and then add the floral. Here are some before and after shots:
All in all, I think it turned out pretty good (all 81 feet of garland!) Not quite the photo we started with, but compared to PB's $60 for 10 feet (we spent less than that on the entire project,) I think we made out like bandits.
That looks really beautiful..again, though, disappointingly classy! I think it's really funny that you all were discussing your garland "a couple of months ago"... I think you definitely have this bug, too, now. There may be nothing you can go about the overall Christmas bug, but perhaps next year you can look into a "galand envy vaccine" for Josh.
ReplyDeleteIt looks soo good!! Looks like Josh will be done just in time to help us get our lights up on Friday :) He wouldn't want our street to miss making the Holiday Parade now would he??
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