It’s NOT too early

As far as I am concerned there is no “too early” for Christmas decorations. For years I waited for the day after thanksgiving. Somehow there was an unwritten law that Christmas could not come until you had finished the pecan pie. Then I lived in London. They do not have thanksgiving and Christmas decorations started going up in November. Why not? It is the festive season we might as well enjoy it longer.

I have they guys coming to help take Christmas out of the attic and from the crawl space next Friday. It was my first available day in November. But I don’t have to wait for them to get started.

Every year I make a new decoration for the house. I have been working all year on one thing and I am not sure if it is done yet. Then I saw a photo of a paper Holly garland that was used in the Biden Whitehouse in 2024. Etsy had a version of that Holly garland for sale and it was close to $800. That was an insane amount for something I was sure I could make.

So I started making the individual parts last weekend. I finished them up yesterday and spent this morning assembling the garland. I hung it on the mirror in our entry hall and I love it.

Since I finished that so early in the day I decided to sew some reversible wreath swags using material I found when I cleaned out the closet in Russ’ office. I have not tied them around the wreaths, but I have the wreaths already and will do that tomorrow.

Decorating my whole house is a huge job as my tree alone takes three days so it helps for me to start on these smaller items early. If I can find the garland boxes for the needlepoint I might put that up tomorrow. It is a time consuming job to hang all those ornaments and I like to spend as much time as I can with them. They make Thanksgiving happy anyway.