I am not a Christmas decoration person. It’s more of a time and space issue than a Bah Humbug thing. I have my tree up with the lights on but so far that’s as far as I’ve gotten. Don’t get me wrong, I love driving around to look at lights during the season. I love going to the Opryland Motel in Nashville to see the lights. If you ever visit Nashville, you have to visit the motel. It’s amazing any time of the year. But back to my project, I have been checking out all the wonderful Christmas decorations on your blogs so I thought I should try my hand at something. This is what I came up with, but it really needs a red ribbon. I think I’ll change the white one out.
First I cut a large circle from some poster board and then cut it in half to make two cones. I taped them together.
A couple years ago I bought a huge box of washers and kept them because I knew I could do something with them eventually. I once covered a bowling ball with them and painted it. It looked like a huge golf ball to me when it was done. Not a good thing.
I used my glue gun to glue the washers around the cone, overlapping just a little. It sounds tedious but it didn’t take long.
Here’s the finished tree before painting.
I used green spray paint.
Viola’ Green tree!
Ron cut me a piece of 4″x4″ post and two dowels 12 and 10 inches long. I painted the large piece country white and then wiped the paint off while wet. I painted the dowels brown for the trunks of the trees. Ron drilled holes in the large piece to hold the dowels upright.
I decorated with the Santa and the package ornaments. Used the glue gun again to attach them.
The white ribbon doesn’t show up well in the pictures. It probably needs a bright red ribbon. But I tried to make this with what I had. I did purchase the Santa and the ornaments for a total of $3.50. The rest came from scraps. Oh, the leaning tree is on purpose. It went against what Ron believes. He is a perfectionist when it comes to his creations. So sometimes we butt heads. I like the tree leaning.
I will be linking this up with Tales from Bloggeritaville, We Are That Family, Blue Cricket Design, Cottage Instincts Made it for Monday, Today’s Creative Blog, The Girl Creative , Tackle it Tuesday at 5 Minutes For Mom, and It’s So Very Cheri.
I like the leaning tree too! This has gotta be the most cutest and most original decor I’ve seen in blogland
I love coming over to see what you two have been up to! Thanks for linking again to Mi4M!
Washers! How unique! They certianly do make for a great tree. I love these.
Now, how cute is this! Very! As a fellow perfectionist I’ve found that angling things takes the sting out of trying to be perfectly straight. I love the jaunty “attitude” of these trees!
Those are awesome! You should sell them!
Those are very cute!
This makes me smile, thanks for sharing. GOD BLESS AND MERRY CHRISTMAS.
These are adorable….great job…happy holidays
How cute is that!! Very cute idea!
Wow…now that’s original and adorable!! Thanks for sharing! Please be sure to visit my blog not only for the thrify post this week but also for my give-a-way post of Vintage Sterling Silver. Don’t forget to participate to win!
these are so cute! So unique, yet beautiful. I love how one is leaning. Too real! I am featuring this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com I can’t believe you only have 52 followers. You want to guest post sometime and get some more traffic/followers? Let me know at somedaycrafts@gmail.com
These are so adorable I love them! You are very creative!
dID my last comment not go through? I wrote a long one:( Anyhow, I featured this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com and my viewers are loving it!
You are so creative. What a cute idea.
Thanks so much for posting to the party.
Cheri