Natural Garland

I wanted to begin creating some natural holiday decorations this year. We have our fair share of artificial this or fake that but there are three reasons for going in this direction.

1. By using natural materials, it forces us to look around and observe nature around us and appreciating its beauty. Mother Earth is beautiful, even in the cold and dark days.

2. Creating these types of things takes time. This slows the season down for us and let's us savor the process, allowing it to be a celebration of the season rather than a day.

2. We have spent the last year simplifying and getting rid of our abundance of stuff. By creating natural decorations each year, we can get rid of the fake mistletoe, holly and evergreen sitting in totes 11 months of the year and use what we can return back to the Earth when we're done.

So this is what we started with - orange garland. Tessa was so incredibly engrossed in her project and skillfully used the needle to thread every last slice.