Need a garland and a huge bauble!

[MadameCastafiore]

Have moved house and now have beautiful hallway! So I need a lush garland (quite long) to wind round the bannister rail and a huge bauble to hang from the, hard to explain but the newel post from upstairs comes through floor to ground floor and would make perfect place to hang a huge bauble.

I looked at loads of garlands and baubles and they are either £££ or sparse and cheap looking!!

Please help me.

[DharmaBumpkin]

We have ones front Xmas Direct, which are lovely. DZD (trade shop) also do giant baubles. However neither are super cheap, great quality though!

Only other option I can think of is to buy two cheap & sparse ones, wind them around each other first and then round the banister?

[Binfullofgibletsonthe26th]

We picked up some oversized (think mini football) baubles in plain silver from Ikea last year?

They were boxed individually and quite cheap.

[MadameCastafiore]

Ooohhh that Xmas Direct is fab and 9 foot long just may be long enough not to need 2 of them for the bannisters.

[BendyBobsBrusselsSprouts]

Sounds like you need something the size that you'd find on display in a shop ie John Lewis. Something really dramatic. I wonder if there are any shop display places that would sell to you?

[DowntonSprouts]

The pound shops sell extra large baubles.

You could hang three on different lengths of ribbon.

[MadameCastafiore]

I think I will have to head to the pound shop - just been sitting having coffee with my friend looking at where I would have hung the large antiqued glass one I was coveting to realise that with loads of little boys always running around the house it would last about 2 minutes before it ended up in pieces on the floor!

So local pound shop it is - or Ikea if this snow clears anytime soon!

Or maybe I will sit and try and find a display place that will sell me one humumgous silver or red one (plastic though)

You are all so very helpful.

[janeyjampot]

I saw some really big baubles in Home Sense/TK Maxx the other day if that helps.

[missnevermind]

Ikea have had the humungous ones in before. Dont know if they do every year.

[MadameCastafiore]

Right - TK Maxx tomorrow if the snow stops or melts.
Ikea at the weekend if they don't have them and £1 shop on Sunday if I have not tracked any down.