Christmas Decorations Part 1

I know for some people it just isn't done, but we started putting up our Christmas decorations the day before Thanksgiving.

It was Mara's and my idea to buy additional decorations and put them up this early. Normally we just do a tree and a Nativity and Christmas lights, but we decided we wanted more greenery this year, so we bought some garlands and wreaths (all fake, so we'll be able to reuse them in the future).

Here's a before picture:

Our entryway as seen from the front door

Michael's had all their Christmas decorations on sale, and a 20% off your entire purchase coupon in addition. So for less than $20, we got:

Christmas supplies

Two 18-inch wreaths, two 18-foot garlands, red ribbon, 70 jingle bells, and several miscellaneous gold and red wreath picks.

Eighteen feet is a lot!

Mara hung the garland in the entryway.

We used little pieces of green pipe cleaner, so that it would blend in. We then twisted it around a couple little nails that we put up. We also did the same thing with jingle bells:

Garland with jingle bells

 Here's the after picture:

Decorated entryway as seen from the front door

We still haven't put up the wreaths or the other garland (we can't decide where to put it) but we will put them up soon.