DIY Holiday Garland Using Deco Mesh (Holiday Decor Series)

I am already in the holiday spirit. I’m playing my Mariah Carey and Merry men Christmas CD’s all day long and I’m ready to put up the holiday decor. This weekend hubby brought out all the Christmas boxes out of the attic for me! YEA!! But now all those boxes are a little overwhelming. So I decided to tackle something every day and take it one project at a time. I am trying a new look for my Christmas porch this year and decorating it with deco mesh garland. I will show you the finished porch in an upcoming post, for now take a look at this easy DIY holiday garland.

My Aunt Cookie showed me how to use Deco Mesh about 4 christmas’s ago and I’ve been hooked every since! Thank you Aunt Cookie! The pop of vibrant color it adds is unmatched. In fact she gifted me some beautiful copper deco mesh and I started collecting ornaments based on that! Now every year we have a copper and gold xmas tree. Its not traditional but thats why I love it! I will do another post on how to decorate your christmas tree with deco mesh, but for now…on with the DIY holiday garland!

DIY Holiday Garland Video Tutorial:

Step 1

Get some decent garland. I always look for garland with at least 2 different types of greenery some berries and pinecones are nice as well. I got this set from Garden Ridge last year after xmas for 50% off!

So I used two 9 ft garlands for one long garland to go around my front door. To connect the two I used some green pipe cleaners

And now we have 18 foot garland! I attached 2 strings of 100ct white lights at this point.

Now its time to add the deco mesh (from Hobby Lobby)! I ended up only using the two wide rolls and not the shorter deco mesh ribbon rolls. I also used some chevron green and red wired ribbon for an extra pop (got it at Sams)!

Again I used green pipe cleaners to attach the first piece of deco mesh. I scrunched up the end and wrapped around the garland to secure.

Then I simply scrunched up the mesh to my desired ‘poofiness’ and yes that’s a technical word! For each poof I simply used a strand of garland to secure the mesh.

I kept doing these poofs until I reached the end. The 18ft garland used one roll of 30 ft deco mesh. Boom first round of mesh done!

Next round of mesh was the green. I secured exactly as I did for the red. Trying to go in between each red loop to cover as much garland as possible.

It was starting to come together but it needed one bit of contrast to make it perfect. Enter chevron ribbon!

Perfection!

Now you could keep going at this point and add oversized ornaments, berries, sprays etc but i think i will leave mine alone right here.

See you in the next Holiday Decor Series!

1) How to make Holiday Garland with Deco Mesh

2) How to Decorate a Christmas Tree

3) DIY Elf Stockings

4) DIY Burlap Christmas Banners

5) DIY 3-Tier Christmas Wreath

6) Holiday Mantel

7) Christmas Home Tour

Comments

Sharon Washington says

November 25, 2013 at 8:23 pm

Great job Keitha! This is a really nice project and it seemed not to take much time to get it done.

Beautiful!

The Bajan Texan says

November 25, 2013 at 8:25 pm

Thanks Aunt Cookie! You are right its a pretty quick project that packs quite a decor punch!

Faluskittlez says

November 26, 2013 at 4:32 pm

Ready for Christmas before Independence Day? Hmmm…either way…I absolutely love this Keits! Will try it with my own patriotic twist around the house with some blue and yellow 🙂

The Bajan Texan says

November 27, 2013 at 5:09 pm

lol thank you Touk!!!

Skndeep says

December 2, 2013 at 4:30 pm

Love this!!!! Can't wait to see what's next!

The Bajan Texan says

December 2, 2013 at 5:18 pm

thank you Wendy! Up next…Christmas Mantle 🙂

Anonymous says

January 19, 2014 at 4:12 pm

keits you are something special mums

Mary @ The Cofran Home says

November 21, 2016 at 3:18 pm

So beautiful! Can’t wait to try it! xo

- Keitha says
  
  November 21, 2016 at 3:27 pm
  
  thanks Mary! Let me know how it goes 🙂