Merry & White Christmas Trees

I was in the Dollar Store awhile back and inspiration struck!  I'm loving the bottle brush trees that seem to be everywhere this year. Below is what I created using 98% items from the $ store.

Except for the bag of corks (got them at the thrift store) everything you see here came from $ store. The little mini buckets are in the wedding section (come with ribbon and tag) and are a perfect container for the trees.

The blinking necklaces I got for the beaded chain and gifted the G'kiddos with the blinking part (worked for all of us). The little chain garland will go around two trees. I hot glued at beginning, a couple of dots in middle and at the end. You want the garland to sit on the little branches not disappear inside. Tried to end up with start and stop at what would be back of tree. So don't cut before finished.

Next I glued a cork into bottom of each bucket. A wine cork could also be used, a small piece of wood doweling. You just want to bring the height of the tree up.

I trimmed off the little circles from the length of garland, it looked to fussy and overwhelming for me. I measured loosely around bottom of tree,  made my cut, then dabbed a spot of glue to join, slipped it over the base, make sure joining is in back, and then glued tree base to cork, making sure bucket bail was in front!!! 

These are items I all ready had on hand. I was all set to use this beaded wire garland but it just disappeared into the tree. As for the silver string...well it took me 15 minutes with tweezers to pull it all out from one tree. So I didn't use those two items. As you can see I have a large jar of jingle bells I picked out a size that worked really well. Using the ribbon that comes with the little buckets I slipped the bells part way up,  tied the middle to the bail and spot glued the bells to the bucket. I gave the ribbon a twist and extra slack before gluing. I only adorned the larger size of the two trees, I felt it was to much on the smaller ones. Fluff the garland around the bottom and your good to go.  I'm sure you ladies can think of a dozen more ways to decorate these little guys. Have fun with it!!!

In no time at all you can have yourself a little forest of 

Merry & White Christmas Trees.

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