Clothespin Tree Tutorial at Little Miss Celebration Blog
"If you missed my earlier post (see it here),
Flashback Fridays are dedicated to my mother-in-law, nicknamed Emme,
for her initials ME. Our first flashback is a Christmas Pin(e) Tree Wall
Art, inspired by a 38 year old craft newsletter that – of course –
belonged to Emme! This is also my homage to Pinterest! Two things caught my eye about this project – first, the word PIN.
Mention the word pin and you’ve got my attention from a mile away
(don’t you just love Pinterest?) The second was Christmas. If you have
ever seen my Pinterest board, you know I’m Crazy for Christmas!
Reading through the original craft directions, I noticed it called
for white plastic clothespins. I was definitely not feeling the plastic
and decided we’d switch it out for wooden ones. What really had me
(momentarily) perplexed? The directions did not say what to do with the
tree after it was assembled. No way was it going to stand on its own!
Were we supposed to lean it against a wall? Put it in a vase? Suddenly, I
thought, let’s make it wall art! We’ll glue it to an artist’s canvas!
Don’t you think it’s kind of nice to have something for the wall?
Almost every available flat surface in my house is filled with
Christmas, so I thought we should go vertical".... Read more
what a cute idea, thanks for sharing!!!!
ReplyDeletePaula