Countdown to Christmas Garland

Over the years, we have used all sorts of ways to countdown the days till Christmas. We have used the ones with little windows that open up to reveal some chocolate, Lego themed ones, ornament cards for the tree. This year I wanted to do something a little different.

I put up some garland above one of the large windows in my living room, put a homemade bow in the middle and wrapped some beads around it. Nothing fancy, but knowing how I am, I will be tweaking it all week long.

I found some tags and little numbered envelopes at Michael's Crafts. On the back of the tags, I printed out a different activity to do every day till Christmas and added them to the tag. Then I hung the them on the garland. I used the branches of the garland to hang the envelopes on.

Thanksgiving Banners

When I was digging out my Halloween decorations, I found some fall leaf garland. I put them up over my two big windows in my living room and decided to add a little something more to them to make them for Thanksgiving. I don't normally decorate for Thanksgiving, but I saw some printable banners on Pinterest that I just had to do.

You can get the printable for this banner here at Bits of Everything. I love this one the most out of the two banners I did. I need to put a fall ribbon bow right in the middle of the garland I think.

You can get this printable here at ClaireBella. You can't really tell, but these letters are a little too big for where I put them. I need to make them smaller somehow. I may cut out the shape and loose the background colors. Other than that, I like it. Very festive.