Winter Front Porch and Yard, 2017

Finally,  after some very cold temps. barely getting out of the teens and then when it finally warmed up, we had rain and then ice, I was able to convert the outside Christmas decorations over to Winter Decorations........

And just in time because as I finished, it started to SNOW!!!

Perfect for taking photos of my Winter Front Porch and Yard!!!

This is how the front porch was decorated for Christmas this past Holiday Season......

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 Re-purposing my Christmas Decor into Winter decor, saves me from taking down ALL of my Christmas decorations at once.........

In my previous post, I shared how I transformed my Christmas China Cupboard in the Den into a Winter China Cupboard......

Click HERE to read if you missed it.....

Okay, Back to the Front Porch.......

 You can see that I left all the garland up.........

I just really took down everything that was Christmas related and changed it out for some Winter decor.......

I added white snowflakes to the garland........

Some Winter slates.......

Here at the front door, I changed out the red velvet bows for gold glittered burlap ribbon bows.......

And I changed out the Christmas Wreath........

For a new Winter Wreath that I made.......

I put together an 18 inch and a 24 inch evergreen wreath, added some pine cone branches and gold berry picks along with some real pine cones.........

I wanted to go with a Cardinal theme so I attached a metal "Let It Snow" with a cardinal on it that I have had for years and made a bow out of 2 different types of burlap ribbon that I bought on Clearance after Christmas.....

 I bought the cardinal ribbon in Big Lot's and the small berry ribbon in Kmart.......

I then used the remaining cardinal ribbon to encircle the wreath by simply bending the branches of the wreath to hold it in place.......

I am very happy with how it came out.......

You can see the flakes falling as I took these photos......

I kept out my childhood  sled which has graced our porch for over 35 Winters........

You can see that I added a few Winter items..........

Winter slates replaced Christmas ones.......

The sled did not need anything changed on it because when I re-did it for Christmas, I wanted it to be used all Winter Season.......

Last year, I made a "Snowman" from various sized wreaths.......

This is how it looked last year.......

But I found the perfect hat during the Summer so I changed the hat.......

And I decided to add some snow flakes to it.........

Don't you just love that hat!!!

I had some left over red plaid ribbon that I had used to create the "scarf"  so I made a bow for the porch light out of it.......

Another Winter slate hangs to the right of the "Snowman".......

I added snowflakes and another burlap ribbon bow to the porch railing.......

Both large and small snowflakes........

 The large one in the center lights up.......

And another one to the tree that stays out on the porch year round.......

I made a bow out of the remaining burlap berry ribbon that I bought at Kmart for the lantern............

And hung a Winter flag......

Over in the flower bed under the Living Room window......

I changed out the Christmas mini flags to new Winter flags with cardinals on them that I bought in Boscov's on sale for $4.99 each........

I hung a Winter wreath the I made years ago on the Living Room window.......

I made new burlap bows for the topiaries out of wide burlap ribbon that I had in my craft stash.....

Over in the front yard.......

I added a simple "Let It Snow" sign to my faux mailbox......

My park bench.......

Another burlap bow ( around on the other side) replaced the red velvet bow along with a metal bird plaque from the swag on the lantern.......

The red poinsettia was replaced with a Dollar Tree snowflake and a snowman slate.........

Another bow made out of the left over burlap berry ribbon was added to the lantern.....

I removed the red velvet bows from the deer and replaced the Christmas mini flag with another cardinal Winter flag......

So you see, it is very easy to change over your Christmas outside decorations to Winter decorations .....

In my next post, I will be sharing how it all looks lit up on a Winter Evening!!!!

So I hope you will come by and visit  again!!

And thanks to those who took the time out of their busy day to spend a little bit of time with me!!

If you do not have a blog, PLEASE  give me some way to reply to your comment, maybe by including your email in your comment.  If I can not find a way to reach you, I will reply on the post where you commented so please check back......

Hugs,
Debbie

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