25 Days of Christmas and Holiday Series: Day 4

Festive, Funky Doily Christmas Trees

We all have seen the paper Christmas Trees dominating the blogs and PinInterest this holiday season.  I wanted to tackle making a few of these, but have been looking for my own personal twist on the project. I was at a flea market with a friend today and found a huge box of doilies for sale.  My mind went immediately to this project, I gave the gal the 8 bucks for about 50 dollars worth of an assortment of doilies.  I was super excited that there were several packs of silver and gold doilies too.

For this project I started with a kitchen skewer placed in a small piece of Styrofoam pressed into a Dollar Store glass candlestick holder.  I made sure the pointy end of the skewer was pointing up.

Using 7 doilies of the same size per tree,  I cut a straight line from the outer edge to the center of the doily.  I fashioned each doily into a cone shape and used a tiny spot of hot glue to secure. As I worked up the tree from the bottom, I pulled the doily tighter, making the opening smaller and smaller as I proceeded. 

One at a time, I threaded them over the skewer, fixing them with a small dot of hot glue as I worked upwards.  Once the final cone was dry, I clipped off any excess stick.  I then hot glued an embellishment at the very top.

For the larger white tree, I used one of my own silver candlesticks.  I didn't polish the piece.  I like the patina and vintage look that they tarnish gives the candlestick.

I wanted to put a birdie on the top of this tree, but all I had was a yellow bird.  So out came my can of Valspar Brilliant Metal Silver spray paint.  I quickly spritzed the bird, getting paint on my freshly painted nails.  Oh well....guess they won't look so great for that holiday party I am going to!!! 


I am super excited about my little trees.  I am contemplating make several more for a holiday table scape I am thinking about. 

Hope you enjoyed this little project.  It's a fun, inexpensive, yet an elegant way to spruce up a little spot in your home.  Now....I gotta go do something about these nails.  I am such a silly bird. 

Don't forget to come back tomorrow for my

Day 5

of

25 Days of Christmas and Holiday Ideas and Gifts Series!!

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