Ready for another Holiday tree?

The next little tree here is a bit more colorful, than the pure black and white version shown yesterday.

I am also trying to make a more traditional example without being too "traditional" meaning no real pine tree, but with more red and green colors. I am hopefully coming up with that one before the season really starts. :)  I love that I am able to make christmas decorations all ready in September.  At a dinner out with girlfriends last week, they all looked at me like: "Are you serious? Christmas trees in September"
Christmas has always been my favorite time of year. So yes I was serious.

You start out with a single dry cleaners hanger and  bend it into the trunk of the tree with a good solid base. Wrap  pipe cleaners around the hanger and build up the amount of branches you like the tree to have.

Cut up a lot of scrap tissue paper in long strips.....and you also need smaller strips, but you will figure that out as you go along.  Lesson learned. Do you use purple tissue paper if you want to end up with a white tree!. It requires  way to much white paint to cover it up. You can either use a mix of e.g. Elmer's school glue and water in 1:2 or you can make up a paste of flour and water. I used Elmer's glue and it worked well.

In my case. Several layers of white acrylic paint was poured over the tree. It dries really quickly, so you will see quick results. 

The final "tree" with the many colors of hearts, to celebrate the holidays in a colorful way.

I would never have thought I would do this!

This is my 15th attempt of letting go and just write whatever flows from my mind to the screen.  I am a total novice in the world of blogging. I have never tried this before and my friends will be very surprised, when they see this the first time, as I have always said that I found it weird that people needed to spend time writing about there life in cyberspace. I would much rather prefer to live right here, right now with my family and friends.  Not that I am good at staying in the now, but I do try.  So why am I doing this?  Primarily because blogs and websites have given me so much in the name of craft inspiration. I get inspired by all these creative people that show and tell about their work online and will try to reciprocate that.  I have all kinds of ongoing projects that I would like to share and I will jump right into it.

It sounds crazy but the holiday season is approaching quickly.  I have spend some time over the summer to think about what to do in order to get my little craft business started up properly.  That initiated a discussion with my husband about how to create a christmas tree of "something" metal as I had this idea of creating different trees to show off different color combinations, of some of the christmas ornaments that I make.  After an interesting trip to my hubby's favorite store Home Depot we started out with this

Needles and metal wire and some epoxy putty for the stand.

The base was made of two metal rings on top of each other with a 12 inch large nail in the middle. My husband "glued" it together with some epoxy putty. Not my favorite, but the Home Depot specialist insisted that this was the only thing that would work.  After some drying time, Hubby started to assemble the nails with some metal wire.  

Then it was my turn to have a go and we ended up with this little tree.

A bunch of ornaments in white and black

...and this is the final result.

I am working on a paper mache version made of recycled hangers from the dry cleaner, pipe cleaners and some tissue paper. Will be right back with that one :)