HONEYCOMB BALL GARLAND FOR VALENTINE'S DAY MANTEL {TUTORIAL}

This honeycomb ball garland for Valentine's Day can't help but put a smile on your face!  Although I used red, pink, and white on mine to match the holiday, there is an endless combination of colors you could use to decorate with for birthdays, graduations, wedding showers, anniversary parties, team colors, or a photo op background for any celebration you can think of. Today I'm sharing a tutorial and showing you how I made it!  I first made this garland 4 years ago and was figuring it out as I went along, so I didn't record my process.  After I shared it I was asked quite a few questions about how I made it, so I decided to recreate it this year and document my process in case you want to make one too.  I will say, even after trying to take special care to be able to share detailed steps with you, this truly is more of a "wing it and do whatever works" type of project.  So, I'll share some tips and tricks from my process but you'll just have to WORK ......

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2026 VALENTINE'S DAY DECORATIONS MINI HOME TOUR

Things are looking pretty love ly around here!  A few days ago I shared our front porch all ready for Valentine's Day , today I finished up some Valentine's Day decorations inside the house. I focused on three spots- the Entry, the Mantel, and a little vignette on the vintage chest in the corner of the living room.  In my last post I shared my giant bows tutorial with you, you can see here where the former tree topper bow ended up for Valentine's Day. I let it be the star and kept things on the dresser pretty simple, tying a metal heart on one of the lamps and pulling out the best faux tulips ever to carry through my red and pink theme.  Gold Metal Heart Set or Single 6" Gold Heart  ||  Similar Bamboo Lamp ||  Faux Pink Tulips  ||  Faux Red Tulips || Red Gingham Ribbon || Similar Pink Red Stripe Ribbon Here or Here || Pizzazzerie Entertaining Book ||  The Southern Living Party Cookbook Beside the tulips I filled a large glass cylinder ......

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HOW TO MAKE A GIANT BOW {TUTORIAL}

This has definitely been the season of the big bows in my home.  BIG bows!  I made 3 versions that I used when decorating for Christmas, and 2 of those are pulling double shifts for Valentine's Day, so I'd say they were worth the effort!  Today I'll share my tutorial with you of the process I used to make my giant bows.  I'll start by saying my bows were all inspired by a bow that John Mark made for his shop and posted about last year.  He did a great video tutorial that you can watch on IG that I followed almost exactly for the paper green plaid bow that I made first. I didn't document my process of making that one since I just followed his instructions.  I used the same idea but switched up a few minor things here and there for my porch bow and Christmas tree topper bow, but the basic process is the same!  For the green plaid bow, I just used wrapping paper that I had on hand.  Definitely make sure you're using a thicker, heavy duty paper if you......

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