Displaying My Matchboxes

I was out antiquing and looking around Fremont, NE with my mom last week and found a pretty retro style garland that I think I'll be using to display my matchboxes.  Park Avenue Antiques has the perfect mix of old and new stuff.   I can spend  hours ohhhing and ahhhing in that place!
I especially like to go there at Christmas-time and with my mama, too!
I originally thought about a mini tree but 25 boxes are quite alot!  I also thought about a metal tray or baking sheet to put them all together with magnets like a true advent calendar. 

All photos from this post are by me

The picture doesn't show the rustic red and bronze tinsel garland very well but you get the idea.    I now need to go back to JoAnn's and grab the mini hooks I saw there during their grand reopening (a bigger store!).   Don't you hate it when you just don't get soemething the minute you see it?  I tend to get distracted and unable to decide if what I'm looking at a good deal or not! 

Then I end up going back and the item is long gone!   Doh!  ... Please tell me other people do this as well! 

Wanna see another cute garland I picked up last year?  I think it was at a TJ Maxx or Marshall's.  Can't remember!

Love it!  You know, I haven't put up my tree yet.   I have a beautiful large pre-lit tree that my parents gave to me a few years back.  I love Christmas.  It's a favorite holiday of mine.  I love the Lord and celebrating His birth.  It's not that I'm feeling like a scrooge it's just that the tree I have takes up a lot of space, I have to move furniture, I'm not entertaining for the holidays this year etc etc.

Poor excuses?  

I have A LOT of Christmas decorations and will be pulling them out for my enjoyment but there is something about the ambiance of twinkling Christmas lights in a dim room ...  Hmm I still have time to rethink this decision.