Garland Troubles

Ok, so I put my tree up this weekend and put the decorations on it. I wasn’t happy with the results. I was using the body of the dragon kite as garland. It looked like a string monster threw up on the tree. I was worried that it wouldn’t look right, and it didn’t. The string holds together discs that have faces painted on them. I was willing to give it a shot, but I think it screams that I am a member of the RAW Fan Nation. Not really what I was going for. I had to come up with an alternative.

One option was to go back to the boa idea. I like the fullness from a boa rather than traditional garland. I think it might look better as the dragon body. I am thinking green might look good. Or, if I can get lucky and find two colors like red and black or even red and (heaven forbid) orange. We’ll see what I can find. Maybe I can find some cheap ones now that Halloween is over.

The other option I was thinking about would require more work. I thought maybe if I could get some fans or something to look like dragon scales it might work. Now that I am thinking about it, I might be able to make that part myself. Maybe some good construction paper or something that I can do an accordion fold on and then overlap them. (It looks great in my head.)

Ugh. And you wonder why I start these projects so early! The dragon head looks good, but it is smaller than I would have liked. I can live with it, though.

Later that day....

So it turned out that I went back to one of the Halloween stores and was able to find some black and green boas. When I put those on the tree, it looked much better. I also rearranged all of the ornaments. I think I am happy with the placement, but I still continue to tinker with it over the next few weeks. I think I am most excited about not making any more ornaments. I’ll start taking some pictures to put out here.