Christmas Card Display

I LOVE CHRISTMAS TIME. I love decorating the house, getting the tree set, driving around finding houses decorated with Christmas lights, and the wonderful smells of cookies and pine trees. Despite my love of all things Christmas, it does perturb me when store have Christmas decorations out way before Thanksgiving let along before Halloween....

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Anyway! On Black Friday we get all the decorations out. We're often at a family member's home (we live out of town from the rest of the family) so I get to decorate their home and then come back to our house and decorate again!

Last year I scoured Pinterest for a creative way to display the Christmas cards we receive each year. I found this really cute DIY wreath that had painted clothes pins to hold the cards. Needless to say my wreath did not look so nice and was a total Pinterest fail. Due to much frustration and failed fixing attempts, I was not eager to search for and attempt another Christmas card DIY display.

I think I waited a total of three days after Thanksgiving to begin this year's Christmas card display search (This is honestly late b/c despite my unwillingness to acknowledge the commercialism of Christmas before Thanksgiving, I do love getting a head start on decoration and craft ideas for the holiday).

After only a few short minutes of searching (again on Pinterest) I found the cutest and most fun way of displaying Christmas cards on the blog Thyme is Honey by Danielle Bruflodt. Now Danielle's tree was a washi tape card tree. I don't have washi tape (let alone have bothered to look into what it is.. shocking I know). So, I used some ornament garland I got from the $ store. I also used the painted clothes pins from last year's failed card wreath. We don't have a large wall with empty space for such a display so I put it on our card tree on our front closet.

I think it turned out pretty well! I look forward to when the cards start to come in and can be put on display! I'll post another pic once the tree is full.