I Saw Three Strips Come Sailing In

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Given the age of our kids, decorating is a calculated series of unreachable vignettes.  Unfortunately, “out of reach” is anything over 5 feet tall as Oliver has a hairpin precision to his destruction, and the boy can climb.  I leave you with one more (SIMPLE!) project, and a quick glimpse of a few of our Christmas touches.

Turn an old sheet into this fun repurposed Christmas garland.

First, the project.  I managed to leave some sheets in the washing machine to soak but failed to actually fill the machine with water… so the bleach just sat on the sheets and ultimately ate through them.  Which means I have a set of sheets to use for crafts.  Yay?

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Turn an old sheet into this fun repurposed Christmas garland.

I ripped the sheet into narrow strips (maybe 1 cm wide).

Turn an old sheet into this fun repurposed Christmas garland.

Turn an old sheet into this fun repurposed Christmas garland.

Then I cut each strip into 6-8 inch lengths.

Turn an old sheet into this fun repurposed Christmas garland.

Walgreens was having a sale on Christmas lights; normally I’m a purist and go for the plain white lights, but this time I thought that a hint of color might look nice given my plans.  They were also sold out of the white lights, so there was that reason too.

Turn an old sheet into this fun repurposed Christmas garland.

I tied each of my sheet strips around the string of lights: on average, there were 7 strips between each light.  I didn’t bother knotting them to save some time, and the whole thing only took an hour or so.

Turn an old sheet into this fun repurposed Christmas garland.

3 thumb tacks later, and you are welcome to ooh and ahh accordingly.  (The white lights would have been nice…. but this way I can bust this out for Valentine’s Day too!)

Turn an old sheet into this fun repurposed Christmas garland.

Turn an old sheet into this fun repurposed Christmas garland.

Turn an old sheet into this fun repurposed Christmas garland.

Next year I’ll brave a beautiful holiday mantle and perhaps something more interesting on either side of our front door.  What I’ve learned is that the possibilities are endless!  All our presents are (finally) wrapped and the tree is officially bone dry.  The Elf is gearing up for his last night ‘on our shelf’ and Eleanor’s had her pretend cookies ready for Santa since Friday. Bring it on, Christmas.  Happy Holidays to all of you out in the blogosphere; thank you for joining me on this blogging journey!

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Turn an old sheet into this fun repurposed Christmas garland.

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  1. I got all holiday cards ready to send on the plane to Dulles and frantically looked for a drop box… NOPE- only outside to mail.. So I have brought all my cards to France and will have to mail when I get back 🙂 love being connected through your wonderful blog and wish you the best Xmas in your wonderful home! Love you
    Meghan