I don’t know if I’ve ever spent as much time in my robe (or eaten as much pie) as I did this past weekend. It was awesome. Along with a lot of lazing around, we got our Christmas tree up and decorated, made a new advent calendar with mini galvanized buckets, and decked out our front door with a set of bells and some greenery and berry branches from our yard:
It’s the easiest holiday door dec I’ve ever made – I’ll show you how! (post includes affiliate links – see my full disclosure statement {here}). The star of the show is this set of rope animal bells that I bought on Amazon {here}. The online photo of the bell set isn’t the greatest but they are so much more amazing than I expected:
I had planned to buy a garland from a local Christmas tree stand to make my door dec. But then I realized that would involve getting out of my robe to drive into town. So I just shopped my own yard. In my robe. Don’t know why I hadn’t thought to do it in the first place because I have the mother of all Christmas trees smack in the middle of our front yard:
The branches even have clusters of the cutest baby pinecones:
In our backyard, I scored some branches with red berries. Still in my robe. Ducking when cars passed by…
So what do you do once you’ve shopped your yard? The rest is simple. Layer your greenery and berry branches and cut the ends of the branches so that they’re even:
Tie the branches together with a rubber band or two:
Hang them upside down from your front door hook with half of the branches on each side of the hook and then hang your three bells on top:
Tie a bow around the top (wire edged ribbon works best) where it hides the rubber bands:
Did I tell you that I’m in love with these bells?
The whole thing took only about 15-20 minutes to make. And I love that I’ll have the bells to reuse next year when I can mix things up by using different greenery and ribbon. Wouldn’t it be gorgeous with magnolia branches?
Kris, this is so pretty. I am laughing because I don’t think I have worn my new bathrobe so much, either. I was sad yesterday when I realized today was Monday so I would have to get dressed.
Kris, I’m with you and Linda….the robe has been ensemble for most of the weekend…and today is very hard to get back into regular clothes!
LUV the door decor so much that I copied and had to buy the bells! We had just put up our Christmas decorations and I put a boring evergreen wreath on the door. The bells were just what I needed! I figured since you’re up north and i’m way south, you wouldn’t mind me being the copy cat!
You’re so lucky to have that gorgeous Christmas tree…..could be the next Rockefeller tree!
Have a great week and as always, thanks for the inspiration.
Love this! I really like things on the front door other than the usual wreath. Looks great!
Absolutely gorgeous! Love those bells!
I love it Kris!!!!!!! have to ‘steal’ this idea from you for Next Christmas! Looks amazing!
Kris, that looks so fabulous! I love your bells, and the pop of red is festive and cheerful!
I love it and I would love a solid black front door. I’ll be doing mine in the next few days too!
I love those bells too! What a great looking, festive door! I just may have to steal this idea. 😉
That is some great holiday cheer right there. I love it!
Kris, you are soooo inspiring. Really like your blog. Can’t wait to see how you’ve decorated the rest of the home.
You are the sweetest – your comment officially made my day 🙂
So pretty! I love the black door;)
Thanks Kimberley! I’m loving having a black door in our new house (it’s pretty much the only thing I’m not repainting in this house!).
Gorgeous, so Christmassy but not too posed.
Thanks so much! I can probably attribute that partly to the fact that I was outside in my robe and just throwing it up there as fast as I could – maybe I need to always decorate in my robe?!
I absolutely LOVED the idea (We love bells also). We have pine trees on our property w cute pine cones. Will definitely try. Simple is better. It’s a classic look. Im chomping at the bit to try this. I know, giving age away with old saying. But, its the truth. Love to decorate for Christmas. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much Rose! Making our front door greenery arrangement is something I look forward to doing every year!!
Super gorgeous and thrifty, at the same time. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much Amy!