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DIY Christmas Tree Part 2

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It's completed! OK, the bottom is a little wonky, but I like it! :-)




My son's nursery gave him some tiny toys which I thought would make cute Christmas bobbles.



I cut small circles of fabric and added some sparkle to them.

I used tacks too....

...and added a ribbon on the top (instead of a star)


DIY Christmas Tree Part 1

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Work in progress.....



With my hubby around, I managed to find the time to start on the Christmas tree. It's not the real thing and it's only 2D, but it's frugal, and there are fewer airmiles on this one compared to the ones being sold at Ikea.


With only less than 3 wks left so I had better get my act together! You need 3 sturdy old clothes hangers, tape, fabric from your stash, or any old fabric you have left from your sewing, scissors and your needle and thread (or sewing machine).


My 2 boys (big and small) helping me stick the 3 hangers together to make the frame of my tree. My hubby used masking tape, but in the end we found that the duct tape would do a much better job as mine ended up a bit wobbly.





My clothes hangers stuck together. Here's where I went wrong. I should have traced my tree onto a newspaper (like my previous project), but I wasn't thinking and traced directly onto my fabric. I ended up with a slightly out of shape tree. I chose white fabric for a white tree (It doesn't snow in Singapore :-p)




Remember to cut through 2 layers of fabric with the right sides facing each other. I then machine sewed one side of the tree, turned it inside out and slip it over the hangers. Now I'm in the process of hand sewing it shut. Will be decorating it soon!

This tutorial was featured in The Examiner

Bottle Caps

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Turning bottle caps into....

....Christmas ornaments, or maybe gift tags, or maybe keychains?


A great idea from Jubliantwares! OK, let's go to the coffeeshop or hawker center and hover over the uncles for their beer bottle caps :-)

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