craftgrrl | Another Christmas Tree Idea (Reply)

I love the look of those over-ornamented Christmas trees, but my cash flow won't allow it since I dont want to make ornaments really and I'm gradually buying those pretty glass shaped ones, like glass poinsettias and other flowers... So after decorating my tree I decided that I needed something else to fill in the holes.

My mom and I were at Big Lots browsing through their Christmas stuff and we came across those really pretty velvety poinsettia bunches. They had some that were in a bundle and some that were single stems, and some of the single stems had glitter around the edges and in the center. We thought they were the cutest thing, but for $1.99 each they weren't that cute. So what I did was I bought one of the bunches for about $3.99 (it had various sizes of poinsettias, only a few that were the pretty full ones, but some others were smaller and missing petals, making it look like they were still alive but kinda dying?).

Anyway, I bought them and took them home and cut them from the main bunch, leaving plenty of stem left to place within the tree or wherever else they may need to be. Then I took a hot glue gun and some gold glitter and trimmed the edges of each petal with a thin amount of glue and sprinkled giltter over top of it and pressed down a bit to make sure it would stay.

After it dries you can place it in the tree, giving the tree a cute holiday glittery look :-)

I bought red ones, my mom bought white ones, and I know they have some purple-ish blue colored ones, so you can do this with any color you like. I prefer the velvety ones because they're so soft and pretty, but you can do this with any kind you want.

Total cost of my project:

Poinsettia bunch - $3.99
Glitter - $2.00
Hot glue gun - nothing, my mom had it and lots of glue sticks left, but the glue sticks are pretty cheap i believe.

I got about 6 poinsettias out of the bunch, of various sizes and shapes. If i would have bought 6 of the pre-glittered ones it would have cost me $12 plus tax, but this project only cost a little over $6! I'll try to take pictures sometime soon!!

I'm planning on buying another bunch and and other grennery stuff to make something to hang over my bed, like maybe one of those vine/swag thingys so I have something to use for decoration when I get my loft apartment.

Enjoy!