Decorating for Christmas on a budget

A few years ago when Hurricane Ike hit, it wiped out most our Christmas decorations. Although I was really glad that they were the only things lost, I was really sad, because I had been saving them for years. Our family thought of me as the Christmas fairy. So now, I am trying to decorate for cheap with ornaments from Walmart and Big Lots. In years past, I took a couple of days and decorated for Christmas. This year, we have way too much going on, so I'm just doing a Christmas project a day.

DAY ONE: Instead of buying a Christmas tree for our front door, I added "unbreakable" (I call them plastic) ornaments from Walmart. I added the glitter to make them more festive. And you can't tell it from the picture, but I also added a strand of 150 tiny white lights.

DAY TWO: I added white ribbon, to eighteen feet of garland along with white lights and attached it to the railing on the upstairs bridge. After putting it up, I realized that the white ribbon wasn't showing up that well, so red ribbon is now on my list of things to buy the day after Christmas.

DAY THREE: I used to do one of our trees in pink and white. Only a few of the ornaments made it. So I decided to do the entry with pink, white and gold. I displayed some of my original ornaments with some Walmart finds.

Guess which one is from Walmart?

The pinecone. I added the glitter. At Christmastime, anything can be made to look more elegant with glitter!

You can add ribbons to anything to make it more Christmassy.

DAY FOUR: For this arrangement...it was all odds and ends. I had one poinsettia, 3 pieces of beaded fruit, some greenery, gold leaves, glittered berries from Walmart and some peacock feathers that I use for weddings and some birds that I found on sale at Hobby Lobby, last year. The candles were plain, but I added double stick tape and sprinkled them with glitter.