Sunday, November 25, 2012

Upcycle a christmas tree? Yep!

So I have been wanting a new skinny tree for Christmas....however, paying for a skinny Christmas tree was not what I wanted...especially since the thing costs 500 bucks...how about...no...so I got this idea, do a little research, did a little thrift show hunting, picked out a color.....did the work...now I have a skinny, lime green, super awesome tree!

So I found this white, 3.5 ft wide tree( at the bottom) at goodwill....had a 10.25 tag on it...got it to the register... It was half off!!!!! Yep, a whopping $5.12!!!

Got it home, it was really yellowed.

I took it outside, sorted,fluffed,stripped all the remnants of last Christmas off of it....set up the main part of it, and started painting a layer at a time till I was done.

It is now outside, drying and airing out.

Once it is decorated with all my vintage stuff, I will post another picture. Oh yeah, and all the lights....I can't wait for the lights....
Here are some pictures along the way.

Hope you like it...or maybe not the color...but the idea of it...it vamps up your old tree into a new