Whimsical Tabletop Christmas Trees

2 Materials
28 Minutes
Easy

You may remember from my previous post that I was working on tidying up our basement. Well I must have done a good job on that, because Greg finally lifted my tag sale and Put & Take ban which was going on for 5 months now. YAY! Happy days are ahead :-) In his defense, winter is almost here. So he lifted the ban knowing that tag sale season is pretty much over and even Put & Take is not that bountiful…or so he thought! Hehehehe ;-)

After the ban was lifted, we went to Put & Take, and I found a big faux Christmas tree with a note saying that it was missing quite a lot of parts. I also found these cheap plastic curtain rod finials. One of them was broken, and the curtain rod wasn’t even there. I guess someone must have picked it and didn’t want to bother him/herself with the broken finials.

Despite Greg’s efforts to keep me from taking them by pointing out the missing and the broken parts, they both came home with us. I am not sure what was worse for him: trying to fit that big tree box in the already-full cargo area of our car, or realizing that no snow, no rain, or no cold will ever stop me from finding the coolest things at Put & Take. LOL. On the bright side, he was pretty happy with my crafting performance, since none of these finds had the chance to see our basement, as they were put to good use straight away. 


You’ll be seeing how I used the poor old Christmas tree in my next post, but here is how I used the curtain rod finials.

Pretty cool, right? Okay, now you might be thinking, “how am I supposed to find an unused curtain rod finial to make these trees?” Don’t worry! As long as you have some crafting wire and some aluminum foil, you are covered. So let’s start making some whimsical tabletop Christmas trees, shall we?


Apart from the curtain rod finials, I used a hot glue gun, Styrofoam cone forms (or you can use a paper-mache one like I did with one of them), some aluminum foil and thick craft/floral wire, an old faux pine garland, 2 white feather boas from the Dollar Store and some sheet moss I had on hand.

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CLICK HERE TO SEE THE STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIAL FOR MAKING THESE WHIMSICAL TREES. 

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Here are my whimsical tabletop Christmas trees! Not bad, right?



For more details on this project please click on the link below to see our blog post.


  If you are interested in Christmas and winter projects, click here to see more Christmas and winter projects from The Navage Patch. 


Thanks for reading and happy crafting!

Handan,xo

Suggested materials:
  • Tree form
  • Hot glue
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  • Patty Patty on Nov 23, 2016
    Does the hot glue melt the styrofoam?
  • Cynthia Cynthia on Nov 25, 2016
    Love your trees, especially the feather one! In the bottom left corner is a mini pinecone tree, did you make this also? Can you post your DIY for it, or if not you your resource? Thanks~ Cynthia
  • Nadine Hartman Bourne Nadine Hartman Bourne on Dec 01, 2016
    Thought I'd share my version. all stuff from the dollar store except the dowels I used for the tree stem. I was kind of bummed I couldn't find a white feather boa, but I think the white garland worked well enough
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  • Vero Albuja Almeida Vero Albuja Almeida on Dec 14, 2016
    tu trabajo es muy creativo y me a dado una idea genial muchas gracias
  • Men10586314 Men10586314 on Dec 21, 2016
    Ahoy guys did a amazing job! Love it!! This is what I really like about " HOMETALK" I find such meet ideas! I just got back into crafting this past year & I can really use these ideas , I don't seem to beable to come up with them as easy as I did when younger & before husband passed but moving on and smiling with fun thanks to all of you at "HOMETALK" HAPPY HOLIDAYS 🌲🌲 be safe for the season
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