Christmas DIY decorations

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Christmas has come early this year for us. For the past month or so, I have been gathering some Christmas DIY decorating ideas for our tree.  I was contacted by Home Depot during the summer inquiring if I would like to be a part of their “holiday design challenge”. Gee, I don’t know. Of course! About a month ago, a gorgeous pre-lite tree and boxes of Christmas tree decorations arrived. I normally don’t start thinking about Christmas until right before Thanksgiving but this year I started at the end of summer. My grandfather said to me last week once the tree was up, “what the heck are you doing and why are you putting up a christmas tree?” I laughed and told him it was for a Home Depot blog post and he proceeded to tell my gram that I was crazy. He still doesn’t understand what a blog is but he is starting to realize that our address is a regular stop for the fedex truck. He wants to know when he starts getting free stuff :).

This weekend I started decorating our tree and thought I would share some of Christmas treats that I have gathered over the course of a few weeks with you!

This tree is absolutely perfect. How about spray painting or adding glitter to some wooden or foam letters?

Country Living

 Glass ornament bulbs strung together would add such a gorgeous pop of color to any tree.

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As a kid we always had tinsel on our tree but as I got older, my mom switched to festive colored ribbon. I love how this tree has the ribbon cascading from the top.

BHG