this is a before picture of the center piece I made for the table....I was all about up cycling at Christmas time...
here's the after....
and with it lit....I also added this to a clear glass cake strand to give it dimension on the table....these pictures really didn't do this project justice....sorry...
Here is the before picture....here is a shelf that I pulled out of a bedroom closet....and the ladder is from our DD's bedroom set....We took her set down and made all separate pieces...and had nowhere for her ladder to go....so I decided I would use if to hang all of our cards on this year....
I spray painted the ladder red and painted the shelf white...I stuck the shelf behind the ladder, added some tinsel and lights with some over sized bulbs...and strung the cards on using fishing line after I punched a hole in the top....
ok..I screwed up...I didn't get an after photo, but you'll get the idea....here is a bucket for cookies that use to be green....I drilled holes in it...spray painted using the paints in the photo below....I also bent the can to make a different shape....
that hammered stuff was really cool to play with...
here's the can before...this is what I did to the can...I added poinsettias and a couple of strands of lights inside... if you can picture the can in the silver that I pictured above...it looked really cool....it's all in the up-cycling...lol...
more up-cycling...these are trees that I use to hang on each side of the Christmas tree...and the third I guess I just had as an extra...lol...never used it....but any whooo, I took all of the picks out of them to start with a blank canvas....there is a metal frame underneath shaped like a tree and the fake greenery with a bamboo basket....all of them are flat on the back so it can sit on the wall...really cool...I've never even looked at these things really closely over the years (about 10 I think)...but this year I did, and what a gold mine I found...lol....I actually had 2 ideas for these...the first was to put them together to make a tree...I even used the cookie can from above as the base....it looked really cool...but I decided on the second thought instead....
and here's my second thought....I kept them separate (since I needed something big to go on this wall) and I used a can of snow spray and sprayed everything....added tiny bulbs to the greenery and bigger bulbs hanging from the bottom with just some s hooks....I truly liked how they turned out....but I do think next year I will make a tree for the center of the table....more up-cycling..heehee
here's a little closer view...sorry the photo sucks. I did add more bulbs in the colors to make them more fuller...
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