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My Winter Woodland Christmas is still a Lazy Girl's Guide To The Holidays. But I'm ok with that. It's where a lot of us live these days, in a crazy, exciting world with little time for stringing popcorn and chopping our own wood for our fireplace. At least I do have a wood burning fireplace (gas starter, though - is that cheating?). I have these tall, linear boxwoods in metal containers on my front porch. I bought them in the fall with the plan to make them all holiday-ish come December. So here we are.

I may add white lights. But don't hold your breath.

You can add this treatment to any kind of planter you have. I foraged clippings and pinecones, as in I clipped the boxwood trimmings from my hedge out front, and I "borrowed" the pinecones from a really nice neighbor. Can you believe they already had sap on them, making them look tipped with snow or frost? I about died. You can substitute with holly and berries or ivy and pink peppercorns. Whatever you or your neighbors have.

KK, so the idea is to create a wreath of greenery with boxwood (or holly or ivy) around the base of the planter.

Add pinecones or red berries (still on their limbs) or pink peppercorns, or the like, for contrast.

You're gonna have to trim the greenery so it looks pretty and not just like a blob under a plant. Guess who couldn't find her grandmother's garden scissors.

And we have what might possibly be the easiest, last minute holiday front door containers ever.

Merry, merry!

Tina