Christmas Greens

Christmas Decor Ideas

 Everyone is trying to find new and inventive ideas for decorating their house for Christmas, but who wants to spend money on something that will only be out for a month out of they year?

Well, I know I don't no, matter how cute everything is at Ikea I can't bring myself to buy the battery operated lights and pine cones in a mason jar for 12 dollars a pop.

1. So Stop by the dollar store and buy some glass bottles, they have a wide selection, or buy slim necked vases that would work too.
2. Then pick up some yarn. Cute yarn or string of any kind.
3. Next if you do not have a strong pair of scissors or garden clippers at home you should probably buy those to, they are totally worth the investment of say, $10.
4. Go home with all of your goodies.
5. Do you have shrubbery or bushes or anything that is green still around your house? Start clipping. Everything has to be more than 6 inches in lenght, preferably 8-10 inches, better to long than too short. If you do not have shrubery, go to the park they do, or the forest preserve (but be discrete it is kind of illegal).
6.  Now that you have you clippings go back home and fill up your vases and bottles with water 3/4ths full and then start sticking your clippings in the vase.
7.  Once it is full, or at least once it looks full tie the yarn around the neck of your vase/bottle and put it some where in your house where people will notice it, ask you about it, and you will of course, show them this blog.
8.  These can be big or small and they will last as long as they are in the water and near the sun, they might even grow roots!
9. Thank my mom for this one, she is a crafty lady!