Make your own garland
So I keep seeing these really rather cute garland looking things and I just love them … until I look at the price. Good grief. Thirty dollars and more? Are they high? Again, I go into my “just no” response. Just no. I can make them myself. Period.
I need paper. I like my garlands with a little heft, so I always use my leftover mail boxes and cardboard junk mail that comes into the house for my garlands. This way I am reusing waste paper that would ordinarily be thrown away and I am still getting a good heavy stiff cardboard to use.
I just print out my letters from my printer and tape them to the cardboard and cut them out. Then I use either glitter glue or glitter and glue to completely cover the letters.
I use my eyelet setting tools leftover from my scrapbooking days to make the good reinforced holes for hanging and a ribbon threaded through for the garland itself.
That is it. Instant garland. Last week (or earlier some time) I posted the same idea, but with snowflakes instead. These garlands are really quite easy to make, which is why it surprises me so much when I see these outrageously price tags attached. There is no reason! Save your Christmas budget and make them yourself.
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