A last minute Snowflake Garland

I hope you are all enjoying your Christmas Eve. As for me. I'm sure I'm hard at work making dinner, and wrapping presents. That's what happens when you're pregnant and you've been sick. So it is what it is. Just yesterday I decided that we needed something for outside. We didn't get any lights put up this year. Yep. We are "those" neighbors. Hey, they didn't make it here from the move with a lot of other stuff that conveniently went "missing" off the moving companies truck. And I just haven't felt up to buying more, or hanging them, and my husbands been in the OR constantly, everyone is trying to squeeze in their surgeries before the new deductible kicks in. So we are doing without. But without further ado... My snowflake garland.

First lay out the string on the ground. Make sure it is the width you need it to be. Vary the ends so the snowflakes aren't all hanging straight across even.

Yes, I realize you can't even see what I'm referring too. So here it is again. This time I've poorly traced the strings that I had on the ground.

At the top of the string tie a knot where the string loops and comes back up. I'm pointing to it here. Do this on the top of all the loops hanging down.

Then take your snowflake (I got mine from all a dollar a few years ago) and tie it to the bottom of the loop. Or if you are adding more than one, tie them in place where you want them hanging.

There you have it. All of the snowflakes tied to the strings and ready to go.

I then took it outside and duct taped it to the front of my house.

It's nothing major, but it's something! And I like it!

And my most favorite part is looking at them from my front door.

All sparkling with the light from my porch. So it's not lights, but hey, it's festive!

And for those wondering... Our Elf decided to show back up on Thursday Morning. And the boys woke up to a decorated house again.

They really learned their lesson this go around. Thankfully we didn't have to roll it over and cancel Christmas altogether. I would have felt awful. But if they kept misbehaving I would have done just that. As for our Christmas tree. It looks PATHETIC. But I don't have time to make more Christmas ornaments, or the desire to go out and buy them. So what we have left is what I hadn't put on the tree in the first place because we had too many and what I could salvage from the disaster they created.

It is what it is. Enjoy your Christmas Eve. May your homes be filled with the Christmas Spirit and the story of birth of our Savior ringing through it's walls!

(And just for the record. I DESPISE that painting on my mantel. My husband came across it and brought it with us when we moved. It's going to haunt me for life. I think it's horrendous. He loves it. Straight out of the 50's orange shag carpet era. Gag me now...)