Christmas Coop

Last weekend I worked outside to decorate the house 

and I had some decorations left over. 

What was I to do with them?

Duh, of course…DECORATE THE COOP!

I used red tulle left over from my wedding decorations.

Yes I still have wedding decorations from 7 years ago.

I told you can’t throw anything away!

Anyway…I wrapped the pillars with the red tulle.

I then stapled up some stockings.

(Last year the stockings were hung on the shutters on our house)

I had 2 (plastic) candy swags that my mom gave me a couple years ago that I had yet used.

I hung 1 over the door and 1 over the stockings.

THANKS MOM, they worked perfect!

Then used some left over ribbon and 

tied a bow to the wreath that was already on the door.

I wrapped a candy bead garland around the cream can full of chicken feed 

and tied a red bow on it. 

The candy bead garland was also from my mom. 

She was cleaning out her Christmas stuff a couple years ago and gave a lot of it to me. 

She knew I wouldn’t turn down free decorations (well free anything really).

I did buy 4 things for the coop decorations. 

I bought 4 candy canes at Dollar General (1$ each)

TIP WHEN DECORATING OUTSIDE...

Don’t worry about making it perfect.

The wind, sun, dog, cat, rain, snow, etc will mess it up anyway. 

So don’t fuss too much. 

When I tie bows I just throw them together and scrunch them up.

I literally scrunch them in my hands. 

It makes them look more relaxed and they are going to look like that sooner or later anyway.