Christmas Bells Anyone Can Make at Home

Hello friends and welcome back to the channel. I'm so excited you are here. If you haven't subscribed, go ahead and do that now. Alright, this video is super fun. Every year in the store I try to do a unique display on the brick wall and I came up with one that was super fun and super inexpensive. So let's get started. So I visited the local home improvement store Next, I took them home and I took some gold spray paint and went at it. to pick out some plastic pots. So this display I'm going to do in my store and I'm going to take two of these garland swags and kind of go around the JDs. It's going to be super easy, but let me show you how I'm going to hook the bells onto the garland. Take some floral wire and just twist it and make a big loop. That's what's going to hold it inside of the bell and you'll have several holes. Go for the smaller one, pull it through, and that's it. Now you've got the wire that you're going to use to attach this to the garland. Next, I used a green swag and secured it to our faux brick wall. This swag is going to be the base of what you're going to build this display with. Now you could do this easily with a swag over your entryway. I chose big plastic pots and medium size and then staggered them throughout the swag. Next I'm going to fill out part of the swag with greenery, and these are just a few of the stems I decided to use. Now I'm just sticking my stems in, but if you're gonna do this display by your front door you're gonna want to wire yours in so the wind doesn't blow them away. If you are working with garland or something above your doorway, and you feel intimidated to make bows, you don't have to make a bow. Maybe do one with three or four loops. Let me show you. One loop and then make another one, make them the same size. Now for this one, I'm just going to do two loops and add it to my garland. I'm going to make one tail a little bit longer and you'll see why in a minute. Tie it really really tight using floral wire and then cut your tails in that dovetail clip. So you fold that ribbon in half and from the fold out is how you cut that. Now if you do want to tackle maybe four or five loops, if you will get a narrower ribbon than the one I was using before, That's going to be key because it's so much easier to work with. So on this one, I'm going to make six loops. And the key to a really pretty bow is just make sure your loops are all the same. And for floral wire, there's different gauges. My favorite is 20. It's the one that I can work easier with and doesn't kill my hands. All right, I got six loops. Got my floral wire. Twist really tight in the middle. And then... Cut your tail. I'm going to do an angled tail for these and then you're just going to fluff out those loops. Super easy. Now there's no right or wrong way to do this. Just fill in whatever you want and whatever looks good for your style. Now when you go to add your ribbon, just stagger them throughout the garland like you did the bells and it'll look perfect. This was such a fun and inexpensive way to add a very unique display for So what a fun project. You could do this anywhere above a door, on your mantel, get your kids or grandkids involved. Very easy. Alright, if you haven't been watching my other Christmas videos, be sure to check those out and I'll see you in the next video. Thank you so much for watching.