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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Beaded Christmas Trees

Where did November go!?!?!  I feel like it was just Halloween and all of a sudden we've kicked it into Christmas high gear!  Which is fine with me-I love Christmas.  Everything about it is wonderful :)  So after seeing these gorgeous beaded christmas trees, I thought I would go out an try my hand at them.

I started with 2 different sized styrofoam cones for my trees. 
does this happen to anyone else?  Why does Blogger flip my pictures sometimes?  I have resized them for web viewing!!!! This drives me bonkers-any insight would be appreciated!

I spray painted them silver just incase the beads didn't completely cover all the holes


I had purchased 32 christmas picks from Michaels.  Each pick had 10 beads on it.  I thought 320 beads would cover both trees.  Plus I had basically pawed through and bought all the picks in gold in that store!


Next I had to seperate the individual beads from the picks.  Talk about a mindless job!  I was glad that since the beads were on wires I would be able to skip a glue process and just jab the beads right into the the styrofoam!  I like effieciency!
 
Sorry for the sideways photos.....stoopid Blogger!

TA DA!  Sad thing is I used about 230 beads on this small tree!  Now I don't have enough to do the big tree.  So I am open to suggestions as to what I should do with the other tree?  Should I go to another Michaels and  look for more beads?  Or try something different? 



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4 comments:

  1. JillNovember 28, 2010 at 1:10 PM

    Sweet!!! Here's a tutorial to get blogger from flipping your pictures! http://733blog.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-stop-blogger-from-rotating-your.html

    Also, there's so many things you could do with the tree:

    http://somedaycrafts.blogspot.com/2010/11/felt-ruffle-tree.html

    http://somedaycrafts.blogspot.com/2010/11/tissue-paper-trees.html

    Auntie Dawn made a tree like this one: (scroll down)
    http://loveisinthedetails.ca/blog/?p=1790

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  2. JillNovember 28, 2010 at 1:39 PM

    Or make a candy tree http://www.lifeisaparty.ca/?p=1375

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  3. JillNovember 28, 2010 at 1:41 PM

    Glitter tree?
    http://eighteen25.blogspot.com/2010/11/glitter-trees.html

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  4. Jess @ Frugal with a FlourishJanuary 4, 2011 at 4:33 PM

    I love your lil tree! But Jill came up with some great ideas too!! (BTW - I ended up with an extra one too!) Guess who is going to try to make a non Christmas one! :)

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