Christmas Wreath & Garland

Soooo my hubby  i just put up our Christmas wreath & garland.i really liked the garland from Pottery Barn, but the price $299 - auuuuuwww nauuuww. So i found one at hobby lobby, same size, with pines, berries & lights, at a better price. The wreath was $40 (with the 50% discound at hobby lobby) and i actually made the garland. Th garland, first off was still crazy expensive even with hobby lobby's "50% discount" (especially for the length that i needed) PLUS they didn't have one that matched my wreath. i bought the plain pine garland (which was about $3.50 per i believe it's 7' - don't quote me on this one - i bought 4 but only used 3) and i bought the red berries also from hobby lobby (they were about $0.60 a piece, i only used one bunch per garland piece since i just randomly placed them in the garland), the pine cones i bought from the dollar tree ($1 for a bag of about 8-10 of them), and the christmas lights we had from the year before. i twisted the berry pieces onto the garland with the same wire they came on, and the left over wire i twisted around the pine cones and then placed them in the garland. the hard part was twisting all the christmas lights around the garland (it's faster when you have someone helping). my husband then placed nails around the trim above the door and below the brick and then he placed the garland. i used the 40% discount coupons that HB has online to purchase the lanterns on the stairs and then added left over pine cones & berries in them and placed flameless candles that i purchased at the dollar tree in them. i had enough left over garland to place around my mailbox.