How to make.... Simple door garland

To create a welcoming entrance this Yuletide, dress your front door with greenery and twinkly lights! You need a strip of mesh... I use a corner mesh (plasterers use this when plastering corners). These cost about £1.50 from any builders merchants. They are strong but flexible and can be bent to any shape around your doorway! Once you have done this, secure with a nails or screws.

Start to weave your greenery (I used conifer hedging off cuts) into the holes in the mesh from the bottom so that each branch overlaps the stalks of the one underneath and secure with twine. Work the greenery up one side and then up the other, building it up as you go until the mesh is entirely covered. 

When you are happy with the basic shape add your lights ensuring you have enough lead to reach a power source.  Embellish with Holly, Ivy, fur cones and apples and hang a sprig of mistletoe from the top or you could hang your door decoration that you made earlier (see previous post).