2 Peas In A Pod Blog: DIY: Mini Christmas Garland

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Hello, everyone, it is Jade here, as you will all know, it is pretty much festive x100 over here at our blog. I mean I am not moaning because I absolutely love Christmas. This year I decided I wanted to get a bit more hands-on and create some decorations of my own. So, I decided to create a mini garland for my bedroom. I have a tiny bedroom so a mini one fitted perfectly. Other than apple spice I think cinnamon and orange is a classic Christmas scent. So I decided to combine the two into a festive garland

So without further ado let's get on with the blog post,

Tools You Will Need:
-Oven
-Sharp Knife
-Screw Driver
-Sellotape
-Scissors
-Teatowel
-Tweezers
-Baking Tray
-Festive Ribbon
-White String
-5 Oranges
-10 Cinnamon Sticks

The first step is to dry out the oranges. I must say the kitchen smelt so cosy when I was doing this step.

1. Pre-heat your oven to 110C.

2. Using a sharp knife slice your oranges, I would say on average I got about 6 slices per orange. I just used the easy peelers from Co-Op.

3. With all the slices including the end pieces, place them on a tea towel and cover them with the other half of the tea towel. Once you have done that press firmly on the tea towel to squeeze the juice out of the slices.

4. After that place them onto an oven tray and place them into the oven for about 2-3 hours. Every 30 mins turn each slice over to they are evenly dried out.

5. Once the 2-3 hours are up and the orange slices are fully dried up, then it is time to construct the garland.

6. Grab your string and put sellotape on the end. This is to make it easier to thread through the cinnamon sticks.

7. I began the garland with a cinnamon stick. To create the hole I used a pointed screwdriver. I pressed the point into the middle of the cinnamon stick firmly so it went through to the other side. I was careful not to break the whole stick.

8. Using the string with the sellotape on the end thread it through, to make it easier to get it from the other side I used tweezers to grab it and pull it through.

9. I then placed one orange peel through the string next to the cinnamon stick. The string should go through the orange peel fairly easily.

10. I then repeated steps 7-9. Although I did 2 orange peels then the next one I did 3. After that, I went back to 1 orange peel. So it would create a pattern of 1,2,3.

11. Once you have finished your garland cut the other end of the string. I then tied the two ends together to create a circle. The garland is one big circle and I hang it on my bedpost. My room smells so good.

12. I then tied 4 festive ribbons in various different places on the circle. I liked that final touch because it made it homely.

Well, that is the end of this blog post. I hope you enjoyed it and if you plan to create your own then I hope you have fun creating it. I am happy with how mine turned out. Thank you for taking the time to read this blog post and I hope you all have an amazing Christmas and cherish all the memories. We will not be posting on our blog until the new year, so have an amazing new year and I hope 2018 brings you joy.

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Jade Xx

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