Every year someone asks, "Where do you buy your garland?" And they ask because it's full, beautiful, fresh and smells so great! So I thought I'd let you in on my secret...
Fresh garland is expensive and while making garland is easy, if you live in a forest, which I do, it's also very time consuming - something I'm a wee bit short of this time of year. So I've come up with a fool-proof method for the garland around my door...I start with a purchased cheap-o garland from Target and I staple it (with a staple-gun) around my door. Pitiful looking at best. Next I walk around the yard and gather up the branches that were recently blown down courtesy of Mother Nature. If I'm lucky I'll find a huge branch with enough sprigs to do the entire door...and this year I was lucky! I clip off the sprigs of greenery and then I stuff them into the fake garland - no tying, no stapling, no wiring...I just stick them in and the fake garland holds them.
Doesn't that look great?! Now if you don't live in a forest, maybe you have a tree you can prune? Or maybe when you buy your Christmas tree you can use the branches you cut from the bottom? In Seattle we don't have a shortage of branches or greenery...or rain. Now you know my secret...semi-homemade Christmas garland...looks and smells great and as the wind blows and more branches come down it just might get a bit fluffier!
