{"id":12626,"date":"2016-06-01T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/?p=12626"},"modified":"2016-06-01T01:11:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T08:11:12","slug":"diy-string-lights-garland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/diy-string-lights-garland\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY String Lights Garland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DIY<\/p>\n

Yea, it’s\u00a0a super familiar looking DIY<\/a> here and let me tell ya, I really meant to do this with flowers and in my head it was going to look so cute but somehow it wasn’t working out, or maybe it was that I\u00a0just didn’t prefer it. \u00a0I’m still all about those greens!<\/p>\n

That wasn’t meant to say I don’t have love for flowers you know\u00a0that’s not true. \u00a0The ones I had thought would become the garland are still included but in the vase on the bench instead, heh. \u00a0Perhaps they were too small and lacked the structure that makes the greens just flow better on the string lights. \u00a0I also tried with ranunculus and they looked\u00a0weird and\u00a0not so continuous\u00a0with the balls of the string lights. \u00a0So here we are with greens, hugging and framing each light in a way that simply\u00a0makes a lot of sense to me, that’s all.<\/p>\n

For this month’s Michaels Makers Challenge, I bumped up\u00a0these LED gold wire\u00a0string lights to become a decorative garland for the theme of summer parties<\/a>. \u00a0You maybe get now why\u00a0I’m making a big deal out of wanting to have used flowers because they’d be so\u00a0summer, no?\u00a0 Greens are still great though, for any<\/em> season, and I imagine a garland like this looking very cute for a summer party, either hung up or laid down the center of a table (omg and outside on the patio as it gets dark into the night? \u00a0Pretty.)<\/p>\n

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Materials:<\/strong><\/span>
\n-shimmer lights (found at Michaels, not on their site)
\n–floral wire<\/a>
\n-wire cutters
\n-greens<\/p>\n

\"shimmer<\/p>\n

Each light is covered by a wire cage ball thing, and the distance between each is the length I cut the greens into.<\/p>\n

\"wire\"I wrapped floral wire around\u00a0the greens to attach them to the wire between the lights.<\/p>\n

\"wire2\"A little tip: it goes a LOT faster to use one continuous piece of wire while unraveling from the wire paddle than to cut a piece of wire each time for each piece of greenery.<\/p>\n

\"DIY-<\/p>\n

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\"DIYReally though, I’d love to see this done with flowers, and maybe might attempt that at another time, but if you happen to try it before I do, pleeease share with me how it turns out. \u00a0I still believe in the idea very much!<\/p>\n

Check out more summer party ideas<\/a> from all the other Michaels Makers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yea, it’s\u00a0a super familiar looking DIY here and let me tell ya, I really meant to do this with flowers and in my head it was going to look so cute but somehow it wasn’t working out, or maybe it was that I\u00a0just didn’t prefer it. \u00a0I’m still all about those greens! That wasn’t meant … Continue reading “DIY String Lights Garland”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[58,492,278,409,300,249,252],"class_list":["post-12626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","tag-decor","tag-flower","tag-garland","tag-greenery","tag-party","tag-plant","tag-summer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12626"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12650,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12626\/revisions\/12650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}