The wreath—made with old glass ornaments I picked up on the cheap at thrift stores, a styrofoam ring and xmas greenery candle ring that I cut apart. With a little hot glue and I was good to go. (I used a vintage filter on my camera phone, that's why the coloring is so fun, ha ha.)
The stick tree was really a black stick tree from Halloween decorations in the fall. I repainted it a soft blue-green and decorated it with antique pastel glass ornaments and glass birds. I anchored it in an old glass jar with rocks in the bottom and some battery powered lights. I think it turned out pretty swell.
I have to share an older creation that I made with my dad. It's a welded metal tree made from scraps my dad had laying around his shop-ex: a bottle opener as one branch. I've got the images here of it all dolled-up. I hope to make some smaller versions in March with him in his new shop. I've already sold a couple of medium-sized trees through my etsy shop: melagerie.etsy.com.
Crafty kids: We made ornaments for the tree out of flat styrofoam cutouts. I had scrapbooking papers that they traced and glued to the forms. Then they added shaped confetti, glitter glue (bad idea for travel!) and fuzzy pipe cleaner hooks.
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