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Looking to decorate your home for the holidays without spending a fortune? In this video, I’ll show you how to make gorgeous DIY Christmas swags for just $5 each! These budget-friendly holiday decorations are easy to create, perfect for doors, windows, or walls, and will add a festive touch to your home. 🎄✨
📌 Materials Needed:
2-foot mini tree (x2)
Ribbon
Decorative picks/stems
Ornament Balls
Zip Ties
🎥 Chapters:
0:00 Intro
01:12 Materials Overview
2:50 Assembling the Swag
10:10 Final Looks & Styling Ideas
12:08 Outro
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a Christmas swag is a great way to
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decorate your home they're really
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versatile you can use them to Adorn your
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lanterns on the outside of your house
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you can use one in the place of a wreath
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on your front door you can also use them
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to decorate your staircase or even your
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kitchen cabinets they are a really great
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thing to have on hand during the
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Christmas time but unfortunately they
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can be a little bit expensive and so I
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have come up with a very inexpensive DIY
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Christmas Swag that anyone can do even
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if you are not into the DIY scene I
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promise you this is going to be very
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easy everything that I used was from the
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Dollar Tree so it's very affordable I
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made five swags and they came out to be
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about
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$525 per swag to make them you just
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cannot beat that price if you were to
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buy them individually might be anywhere
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from you know 20 to $35 a piece so I'm
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going to jump right in and show you how
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to make these easy DIY Christmas
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swags hi I'm lindsy Diane from Dian
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decor.com let's jump right into this DIY
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Christmas Swag tutorial by starting with
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the items that you're going to need
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first you'll need two trees from the
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Dollar Tree these are the small 2ft
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trees for
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$125 you're also going to need some
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ribbon you're going to need two types of
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decorative stems so for me I used these
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glitter berries and glitter bay leaves
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but you can use anything you'd like then
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I would pick up a pack of their small
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ornaments as well as a pack of zip
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ties you're also going to need some hot
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glue a hot glue gun and some scissors so
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for my project I wanted to have multiple
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swags so that I could put them running
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along my staircase so I created Five
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swags in total it cost me
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2625 plus tax to buy all of the supplies
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for these if you wanted to make that
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many swags you're going to need 10 trees
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two ornament packs three glitter Berry
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clusters two glitter bay leaves three
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spool of ribbon and one pack of zip ties
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along with your hot glue and your hot
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glue gun and your scissors if you want
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to do that on average they're going to
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come out to be about 525 a piece now if
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you just want to make a set of swags
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let's say you want to use them for your
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lanterns outside or something like that
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you can do this whole project well under
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$10 okay so here's how I created these
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DIY swags we're going to start out with
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the two Christmas trees so you're going
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to go ahead and unbox them and you're
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going to pull off the little base at the
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bottom so that you just have the pole
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sticking out
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there then you're going to proceed to
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start fluffing out the trees so you're
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going to lay them flat on your surface
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and fan out the branches to either side
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almost creating a flat little tree
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you're going to end up with a nice
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little triangle sort of shape you're
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going to do this for the second tree as
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well and once you finished you're going
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to flip one tree upside down and Orient
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it so that they're slightly overlapping
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and you've created somewhat of a diamond
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shape with your two trees
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then you're going to use your zip ties
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and you're going to attach the two poles
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together I would attach these at two
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different locations probably one towards
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the top where they overlap and one
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towards the bottom where they overlap
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just that you have a nice secure swag
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but this is very very simple to do if
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you don't have zip ties and you have
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twine on hand or some uh green string or
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even some twist ties all of those things
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would work to secure these two items
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together once your zip ties are tighten
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you're just going to snip the ends with
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your
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scissors and next we're going to move on
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to adding a few embellishments with the
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bay leaf stems so I'm just cutting off a
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small little cluster I'm going to use
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two at the top and two at the bottom of
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each of these
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swags so I'm going to tuck these in the
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stem side should always be tucked in
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towards the center of your swag and once
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you've got them into place where you'd
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like you're just going to put a dollop
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of hot glue on there to secure them in
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place
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[Music]
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[Music]
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then I moved on to the berries again you
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don't have to use the bay leaes and
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berries they you know depending upon
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your Dollar Tree um if you're familiar
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you know that the stock changes from
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store to store some things you can find
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in one store that you can't find in
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another so just choose two types of
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stems that you really liked or you can
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go to Walmart or Michaels it doesn't
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really matter where you pick them up
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from just choose two that that are going
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to give you a variety of texture and
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maybe a little bit of a variety in color
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as well I am going for more of a
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champagne silvery kind of look for my uh
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swags so that's why you're seeing I have
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some of the champagne berries and I
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could only find the silver bay leaves so
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I just ran with it although I would have
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preferred to have the champagne ones
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with the berries because they're a
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larger cluster I am just adding one to
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the top and one to the bottom
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if you can't find the berries but you
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really like that kind of little ball
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cluster look Dollar Tree also
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sells um glitter ball vase filler so
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you'll see it in a little bag it's
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probably going to be in the general area
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of the PS and stems and all the
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Christmas florals if not it's going to
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be probably towards the front of the
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store where they're highlighting all the
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little ornaments and things like that
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it's just going to be a little bag
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filled with little glitter balls of vase
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filler and you can just hot glue those
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on individually to create the same kind
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of berry look and then I'm going to go
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in with some of my ornament balls now I
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use just two or three for each swag here
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I'm putting on two I'm starting there
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and then I'm moving on to my ribbon but
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there were some in the end that I went
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ahead and added on an extra ball just to
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kind of fill it out a little bit now
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with the ribbon I am not the the best at
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creating bows I will be the first to
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admit it um I just kind of made it work
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I'm going to link a tutorial a really
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good tutorial for making bows down below
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in the description box um if you don't
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want to fuss with making your own bow
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you can always just buy some bows they
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sell them at Dollar Tree they sell them
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at Walmart you can get like maybe a
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15inch bow and it will have some nice
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long tails on it for a dollar um and
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then you just have them for your swags
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and you won't have to fuss with the
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ribbon and tying it and twisting it and
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getting it fluffed out just right um but
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I did fuss with them a little bit I
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don't love the color of my ribbon it's a
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little bit too yellow gold for my liking
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because I was going for that champagne
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that cool gold champagne look um I'm
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still deciding whether or not I'm going
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to swap out this ribbon but for now it
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works so once you've got your
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bow tied just go ahead and use either a
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zip tie or a twist tie to hold your
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cluster together add your Tails snip
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your ends and you're done
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[Music]
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[Music]
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see
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[Music]
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[Music]
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here's a final look at the swags after I
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attached them to the rails on my
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stairway I absolutely love the way these
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turned out again I just use zip ties to
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attach them so I can take them down
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easily next year you can also use string
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or twine or um little twist ties
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anything you have on hand that will
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fasten them to the rail will work
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beautifully now if you want to upgrade
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your swags a little bit more I would
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recommend adding some lights you can
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find cordless battery operated lights
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that are on little timers from Amazon
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you can get them in packs of like four
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or six they'll come in different colors
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just be mindful of the wire color that
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you choose a lot of the smaller ones are
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going to be the fairy lights but they
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also sell the in the standard bulb size
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as well just again be mindful about how
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long that string is because the swags
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aren't huge so you don't necessarily
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want a 20 foot long string of cordless
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lights especially if you want an
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individual one for each one and you
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don't want to have that cord running
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from each swag to the next but um they
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are really inexpensive and it's a great
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way just to add a little more o to these
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swags they usually come with a timer
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that's like 18 hours off and 6 hours on
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so you can put your batteries in turn it
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on the first night and it will run and
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it will just keep running on that cycle
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automatically through the whole
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Christmas season I absolutely love this
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idea and again the swags are versatile
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you can put them on your cabinets you
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can put them on your door you can have
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them running on your staircase you can
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have them on lanterns outside you can
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even Mount them on your windows outside
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they are just are a really really cool
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way to decorate for the holidays and
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with this DIY they are very very
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inexpensive that's it for this video I
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hope you enjoyed it if you want to see
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more DIY Christmas tutorials I have two
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others that I will link in the
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description box below those are my $3
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mini kitchen cabinet wreath and my mini
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Christmas Forest Decor that I did last
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year I am probably going to do one more
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DIY Christmas tutorial before the season
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is over so stay tuned for that if you
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enjoyed this video please give it a like
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and consider subscribing to my channel
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and don't forget to visit me at Dian
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decor.com I post all about Christmas
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decorating over there thanks so much for
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watching I'll see you in the next one
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bye
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