Christmas Porch Decor Ornament Cluster
The most wonderful time of the year is quickly approaching! I don't rush past Thanksgiving and usually wait until after to decorate, but I know I need a decorating game plan well before Thanksgiving, because all of the best stuff goes fast! Today I've partnered with At Home stores to create some Christmas looks from their floral department to give you some inspiration as you prepare to deck the halls and decorate your porch for the holidays too.(*This post may contain affiliate links, read my full disclosure policy here.)
Last year I jumped on board the flocked Christmas tree craze, and while browsing the greenery aisles of At Home I noticed they had several items of flocked greenery available. I purchased 2 pieces of the 9 foot flocked garland and hooked the ends together to make one long piece to drape around my front door.
Mine did not have lights (there's a prelit one as well) but I picked up a string of 200 white lights to add to it which was just the right size. Then, I felt like a kid in a candy store looking through all of the boxed ornaments and individual ornaments from their various holiday collections to add to the garland. In my opinion, ornaments are probably the most versatile holiday decorations there are!
These are the ornaments I mix and matched on my garland- I love the texture, glitz, and shape that the pink starbursts and red flower ball ornaments add!
Adding clusters of ornaments to garlands or swags is so easy! I keep a stash of pipe cleaners handy (I think they're easier to use than floral wire), and just loop one through the group of ornaments I want to use, scooting all of the ornament tops close together and then twisting the pipe cleaner closed a few times. Just don't pull the pipe cleaner too tightly when you're twisting or you might pop a top off the ornament.
Then, there is a good length of pipe cleaner ends to wrap around the garland and twist in back to secure the ornament cluster in place.
For the door, I picked up a 30 inch flocked wreath (it comes lit or unlit also, I just added these battery operated lights to mine) and added ornaments the same way I did to the garland.
The flower balls and llama ornaments only needed to be tucked into the flocked branches and they were secured enough. Can you even with the cuteness of those llamas???
A festive Merry Christmas doormat finished things off nicely!
I usually load my lanterns up with ornaments too, but this year I filled them with a few colored tinsel trees instead.
And technically in the ornaments section, these tassel ornaments are the perfect embellishments to tie on the top. They come in 4 colors and the price can't be beat... I scooped up several to tie on packages, baskets, lamps... etc. year round.
Everyone knows the magic of Christmas happens when the lights come on. I mean... there's not much better than the glow of Christmas lights!
I also had in mind a few other spots I wanted to add some Christmas greenery-
I absolutely love little wreaths added to dining chairs for the season, and found these simple pine wreaths that were just the right size. I kept them simple and added a few boxwood stems with glitter flocking to add some dimension, then tied on some small ornament clusters and a single bow. Chairs with spindle backs are easier to tie a ribbon on to attach a wreath, but with my upholstered chairs I just use a few corsage type straight pins through the back of the bow's knot and they stay in place just fine.
Leftover ornaments from the garland with some candles grouped on a tray make the easiest centerpiece, and there's nothing to water or keep alive for the season!
Lastly, I love to look outside of seasonal aisles when shopping for the holidays to find things that can be used not only at Christmas but year round.
On the regular greenery aisle, I found this faux olive wreath that I just loved. I'm always drawn to wild, natural looking wreaths and this one is a very good faux piece. Keeping it simple, all it needed for Christmas was a good plaid bow! Then, it can easily transition to keep using it through the rest of the year by switching out the ribbon, or it's perfectly beautiful as is with nothing added to it. I'm looking forward to it's simple green shape on my doors through the rest of winter after the Christmas bow comes off.
I also use these long needled pine stems well past Christmas, they look very realistic but without the mess!
Have you started decorating for Christmas yet? My kids are out of school all next week so we'll probably do a bit of organizing and prep work, but come November 23 it's on in full force! :)
Find an At Home store near you here, and get your walking shoes ready... you won't believe the aisles and aisles of goodness to peruse!
*This post is sponsored by At Home, but all designs, project ideas, and words are mine!
Christmas Porch Decor Ornament Cluster
Source: https://www.dimplesandtangles.com/2018/11/decking-halls-or-porch-with-at-home.html