Category: Holidays

Easy and Inexpensive

Here is a quick tutorial on how I made these Christmas Trees. I needed 50! It wasn’t in the budget to buy 50 bristle brush trees. Even at $5 each, I would have had to spend $250! Here is how I made 50 trees for ZERO DOLLARS.

I had this 3 foot piece of artificial garland left over from last year. Why not take it apart and make trees out of each branch? That’s what I did. You can do it too.

My garland had 3 wires. 2 made up the base wire and then the third wire wound about the base of each branch tying them all together. I simply unwound the third wire to separate the branches. Then all there was left to do was to cut the small bristles in the shape of a tree. I have to say that they aren’t that beautiful by themselves but they make a nice statement when put together in a grouping.

My wonderful husband braved the cold and cut some 1 by 2 boards into 10-11 inch pieces. I needed 10 because my client was a Hair Salon and they had 10 stations that needed a decoration.

Each board was then stained a nice walnut finish and 5 holes drilled. The holes were drilled unevenly on purpose. I didn’t want the trees to be in a row. I wanted them overlapping a bit to help the look be more natural. Then each tree base was dipped in glue and one was put in each hole. All that was needed was a simple spray of snow. Voila! The only thing left was to print out a beautiful Christmas message to put under each piece.

Merry Christmas Salon Oriana!