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The dining room forest

11 Saturday Jan 2014

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After they graced the tops of cabinets, and before they got put in a large box in the attic, the tall alpine trees became a forest on the dining room table.

1 Bottle Brush tree forest
2 Bottle Brush tree forest

I usually do a better job on the lights but I'm a little shaky standing on a chair this year. Even so, the trees looked lovely against the new cream colored walls.

I usually do a better job on the lights but I’m a little shaky standing on a chair this year. Even so, the trees looked lovely against the new cream colored walls.


4 Bottle Brush tree forest
5 Bottle Brush tree forest
6 Bottle Brush tree forest
7 Bottle Brush tree forest
8 Bottle Brush tree forest
I adore trees, real and not real. If I didn’t need this table so much, I wouldn’t mind leaving the trees there all year. I know my granddaughter would have loved playing with little dolls in the forest. Next year, I will get the trees out a week before we decorate, just so the dolls can play hide & seek in the dining room forest.

If at first you don’t succeed… (Vintage Glitter Cloche)

04 Wednesday Jan 2012

Posted by in Christmas, Craft Fail, crafts, projects

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Working on the Vintage Glitter Cloche was a good learning experience in crafting. Here is my first attempt at making those awesome cream-colored bottle brush trees.

Bottle Brush tree fail.


What a hoot! I had no idea that the trees would disintegrate if left in the bleach solution too long. The green trees were placed in the big jar of 40% bleach/water solution and left to bleach. I stirred them occasionally and watched the green leach out for about an hour. Then I went Christmas shopping. When I returned hours later, the trees looked wonderful. But when I pulled them out of the solution, they were rusty and disintegrated. Such sorry little trees! I’m going to make another cloche that will fully showcase the awesome character of these trees. Perhaps a Dr. Seuss-inspired cloche. That will do nicely! Never waste a crafting failure, just re-purpose it!