As for the planters - one on a pedestal by the front door, one on the front steps, and one down at the end of the walk by the driveway.

My decorating isn't finished yet. When I leave each morning I look at the door and say "what does it still need? Greens, red bulbs? Gold?"

Idabean

Somehow in my editing I deleted my verbage giving full credit to my 7 year old. She sticks the greens in the planters and chooses the decorations. Hence the addition of light up reindeer in a candy cane pen in the front yard.

The gold macaroni wreath made me smile. We still make sure to put a gold macaroni ornament on the tree each year that my sister made when she was 4 (and she is just over the half century mark now.) Your daughter has her own style with flair - something not always found in kids.

Here are my buckets. I wanted some height after the last several years' deep snows completely burying my evergreens for most of the winter, and was inspired by Deborah Silver, a blogger who does landscape design and has a garden shop. I used some pagoda dogwoods that I had heeled into the veggie garden too many years ago for them to still be transplantable without a tree spade, so were cut down this fall. I think I need to add a few more ornaments still for them to look really filled. The rest of the ingredients come from my yard (white pine, spruce, red maple) and my inlaws' holly hedge.

The buckets by the end of the drive:

From December 15, 2011

From December 15, 2011

The bucket between the two main doors:

From December 15, 2011

Thanks! Mine need to be big, bright, and full since they mostly get viewed by folks commuting down my road at 50 mph.

Dee

My 7 year old loves doing this and is already planning on the transition to Easter. I keep telling her the planters disappear after Valentines Day and we wait for pansies. She tells me our front door will look ugly if we don't have decorated planters out there. Beauty is in the eye of the decorator!