Tuesday, November 29, 2011

52 in 1: WEEK 28 - ball ornament Christmas tree






A few weeks ago, I saw these in Target:


And, of course, I was instantly determined to make my own version. 


Materials:
-styrofoam cone base things (got mine at Joanns)
-Christmas bulb ornaments (got mine in the dollar bin at Target and on sale at Joannns)
-hot glue gun and glue





Pull off all the metal top things (I'm so technical).




With your glue gun, make a circle of glue on one of the cones.  Press the ornament into the center of the glue circle, puncturing the styrofoam with the raw top of the bulb and securing the bulb to the cone.



Repeat.  Over and over and over.  And over.



I dug out some old, bigger ornaments that I had decided not to decorate with this year and used them to fill in some of the big gaps.



Hiiii!



This tree took longer to make than I had anticipated.  It also didn't turn out exactly as I had envisioned, but I still think it's pretty and interesting to look at.  However, I was totally expecting to be able to complete three trees with the bulbs I bought.  They barely covered the one tree... oops.  Lesson learned: just buy (gasp) the premade tree.  I'm sure they have gone on sale by now, and it definitely cost at least as much as one sold in the store to make.  Plus, it wouldn't take two hours (resulting in a mediocre project) to just go to Target and buy a stinkin ornament tree.  Now, what to do with the remaining styrofoam cones... hmmmm....


4 comments:

  1. Looks good though, and if you had fun doing it, who cares right?

    I did the button ornaments with the styrofoam, and after buying more buttons TWICE more (originally bought 200 of each color), and using about a thousand straight pins (i bought one thing of 250 and thought that would be enough!) it definately cost a lot more than just buying a stinking ornament for each of the triplets, but was more worth it to make it and the fun i had doing it. each one took 2 hours!

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  2. I bought a whole bunch of cones too and am trying to make use of them! I also saw those trees at
    Target and had plans to make one but learned the hard way from my thumb tack fillers how bad I am at estimating the numbers for things like that! Thanks for saving me the time! haha I will find another use for my cones. Also, have an AWESOME trip friend!!!! I am so proud of you!!

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  3. You can do the same thing with the foam wreaths. When finished ad a bow and they are awesome! A friend has made them and I am just getting started. My whole ding room is Christmas Balls!

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  4. You can do the same thing with the foam wreaths. When finished ad a bow and they are awesome! A friend has made them and I am just getting started. My whole ding room is Christmas Balls!

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