I haven’t shown.

Hot glue was the attaching method of choice, of course!.I trimmed the two ends with a little extra ribbon, just for cuteness..

I had to put it on this dresser for now, just to show you, but the next time you see it, it will be looking all lovely on my new kitchen table!.So I get a new table and a new runner to go with it.The best part is, I can make a new one every month for next to nothing with all the great napkins I always see on clearance.

Hooray for good ideas!Well, I realize the time for advent calendars started five days ago, but I wanted to share this fun idea today anyway.If you still want to make something like this, you could even do a 12 days of Christmas thing and have plenty of time left this year to get it together.

Let me tell you a little more about it!.

When I was younger, my gramma put together the neatest advent calendar for me.OK, I made that last one up, but still.

None of those things are happening for normal people with normal busy lives and normal budgets.I always hate advice like that because it kind of suggests that if you can’t do it right, don’t even bother.

And of course, there are so many, even better things that you can do to make your home feel summery in just a few minutes and without a whole team of stylists and hard-laborers to work for you.. For summer, it MUST be easy.One thing is for sure, no one wants to spend their summer fussing over decorations in their home.