one more garland

I wanted to show one more garland for Nester's Show and Tell. 

She makes these fabulous ragamuffin garlands and encourages everyone else to make them too or at least buy one from her because everyone *needs* one, don't you think?  

Well, approximately 10 years ago my grandma (Sweetie) made this garland for me and one for my mom.  We saw one somewhere and said to ourselves, "Sweetie could do that!" and so she listened to our explanation and then created it, "viola!"  (oh no, my friend Sandi who speaks French for real has a pet peeve about people mispelling that word and I am afraid I am but I am tired and don't want to look it up.  Sorry Sandi, please correct me and forgive me.  :)

So I'm living in Dallas as a single gal with this fabulous ragamuffin garland and I'm thinking I should hang stockings but there's just me and I am convinced that one stocking would look absolutely pathetic.  Nope, can't do it.  It will only rub my singleness in my own face.  So . . . 

I raid my sock drawer and find all of the mismatched, holey socks and go buy Rit dye and get out the tea bags and get to work dyeing those guys.  Then the first year I got out my needle and some skinny red ribbon and strung the socks on the ribbon and tied nice little bows.  After that when one or two fell off I just began to staple them onto the strips of cloth!  It works.  

(I added a few little red berries this year so the Nester would be proud of me.)