Show & Tell Friday: Christmas Greenery

There are so many Christmas decor linky parties going on that I wish I had time to join them all! Today, at least, I'll be joining Cindy at My Romantic Home for Show and Tell Friday.

A few days ago, I posted some of my outdoor Christmas decorations that I put together for my front porch; namely some fresh greenery that I made into fancy garlands ( click HERE to view that post). I do have artificial garland that I use inside the house and I had thought of getting more for my outdoor decor, but last year I decided instead that I wanted to use fresh greenery because I thought it really was more "Victorian".

Fortunately for me, I live in Wisconsin and it gets cold here, so the fresh greenery holds up really well. Last year my fresh pine garland didn't start looking brown until almost February. I generally like to use a long needle conifer, like white pine, rather than a short needle, like fir or spruce, because the long needles on the white pine don't seem to "shed" like the short needles.

I knew I'd have some leftover garland after finishing up the front porch, so this is what I did with it.

I made another garland to go over the French doors that open from the parlour to the front hall! I noticed after the picture that it looks slightly lopsided, so I'll have to fix that.

The central part of the garland; like the one on the front porch, I added some Carolina Sapphire Blue, variegated cedar and red huckleberry branches to it and also some faux berries in red and white. Then I added a wired bow in a lovely green paisley pattern.

A few more boughs of white pine and cedar, along with ribbon and red berries, adorn a couple of the large pictures that hang in the parlour.

Martha still looks pretty grim, even decorated for Christmas!

The last of the greenery I put on the entry hall fireplace mantel, with some pine cones. I haven't actually finished decorating this mantel; it's still a work in progress.

Sorry for the blurriness on this picture. I think my camera is starting to get "elderly", even though it's only 5 years old. I've been having difficulties with it lately when I zoom in on things. I literally retook this picture six times and this was the least blurry one. Hmmmmm. Maybe Santa will have to bring me a new camera!

Thanks for stopping by! Later today the big Victorian tree will be going up in the parlour ( I need Erik's help to get that one put up, it's so tall and heavy!)