I am huge fan of crafting. I love to sit at a table while sipping yummy coffee
while having a wonderful crafternoon. I get inspired by lots of things and always
love to use vintage items. I find many a vintage things in thrift stores. One of the many thrift shops I
visit has this large chest of drawers all devoted to crafts. The contents inside those drawers is
usually old and vintage. It's quite a treat.
Awhile back I had taken out my Christmas bins and was looking at all my wonderful
vintage Christmas décor. I have so much and not everything gets used every year. I decided to use some of these items in a new craft. My inspiration came from a vintage item I saw on Ebay.
I thought " I can do that!" and so... I did.
The first thing I did was gather my materials.
Some items were non vintage but they still had a vintage look. I was
happy that some of my vintage pieces were being put to good use. I wanted to make
little vintage Christmas trees to display as décor in that house. I bought a few extra so that I
could give them away as gifts to my vintage loving friends. The inspiration piece I saw
used vintage bottle brush trees however I did not have any so I went with white and green artificial
mini trees which I purchased at a discount craft store. My local dollar store had some great ornaments
that came 5 in a pack for 1.00. I bought some to use as stars on my trees. I especially felt the one that
said Merry Christmas was vintage looking.
What was also needed for this craft was a base for your tree to sit in. I had some vintage Santa mugs and was lucky to find some vintage Christmas plant holders at The Goodwill. One was a super cute boot and the other was a box with a Santa Clause on the side. While on the hunt for these things, I ran across Styrofoam cone shaped item in the craft section of the dollar store. I knew I could also use them as a tree so I grabbed two and headed on home to craft.
I had vintage balls and tinsel holly leaves along with beads, garland and vintage ornaments. I also had a Styrofoam brick left over from another craft night. When I had everything laid out on my table, I began by taking the plastic base off my mini tree. This was easy as it simply unscrewed. Next I took my Styrofoam brick and sliced a small piece off. This is what would hold my tree inside the cup. I hot glued it inside my Santa mug and let it cool a bit. The tree had a wire point bottom, this slid easily into the foam base in the cup and held it tightly in place. When that was done I got busy decorating the little tree. I hot glued everything onto the tree. I thought it came out super cute!
Some of my vintage items were not perfect but I simply hid the imperfections
by either gluing the bad side of a ball to the tree so the pretty side showed. My Santa mug
had a small chip near the handle so I glued a cute mini red bow over it.
Next I decided to make a tree out of the cone shape Styrofoam piece I got a the dollar store.
I had a smaller Santa mug for the base which was perfect because it fit the foam tree nicely.
I glued the vintage silver tinsel around the foam, added some vintage red mini glass balls
to that and then glued a sweet vintage angel to the top of it.
How cute is this?
My vintage Santa mug was not in the best condition. I didn't mind his imperfections
and thought they added to the charm of the piece so I left it alone. The hubs really loved this
one so we decided we would keep it.
I finished off the rest of the trees and then took a group shot.
I still have some left over pieces to used on another craft.
I think they came out great and I can't wait to gift them to my friends!
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