Wood Spool Christmas Tree & Link Party

Hold on to your tinsel folks, 
this post is packed full of Christmas cheer!

The Christmas Junkers United Team and the 12 Days of Christmas bloggers are combining for Day 2 with holiday inspiration and Christmas junk.

So many ideas, 

you won't need your eggnog spiked to make your head spin!

My creation is an upcycled, recycled, junktastic project......

Remember these spools my son in law brought me this summer?

One of them has been taken apart.  Cut to shreds.  Sawed in half.  Just like magic.

Husband magic.

The spool top received a masking-tape tree shape and the Brawn of the operation took pity on me and got out his DeWalt reciprocating saw to cut the tree out.

As I repeatedly thanked him, the only instruction I gave was not to make a perfectly shaped tree.



The spool is about 2 inches thick.  I'd still be at it if I had to cut it myself.  Probably minus some digits or with a gash in my thigh.

I gathered some junk and sort of made up the whole thing as I went along.

These are some heavy solid glass bottle stoppers.  I wrapped wire around them to hang on the tree ends - my version of icicles.

Or would that be junkcicles?  Glasscicles?

I know... they are re-cicles!

This tree is big...... from the base to the top of the star it's 5 feet tall.  I'm just an ornament or two taller.

My oldest daughter collects snowmen and I picked the .25¢ star up at a garage sale for her.  Don't tell her she can't have it now.

I painted it white and left some of the rust color showing through.

An old bed spring is stapled to the tree top and the star is wired on.  I left the little bells on, because like I said, I was making this up as I went.

To celebrate Brawn's German heritage, the tree got a little O Tannenbaum chalkboard.

I'm not German, I'm Irish.  For me it's O'Tannenbaum.  Get it?

The base is made from the center of the spools, cut down to size, which I coated with a white wash and I also hit just the tips of the branch ends to clean my brush off.

Totally recycled.....
spool, bed spring, star, and glass bottle stoppers, turned into a rustic 5' Christmas tree.

I thought about adding some vintage glass ornaments I bought this summer.  In fact, if I ever find them I will probably do just that.

I spent as much time looking for those darn ornaments as I did putting the project together.  Don't even ask if I'm mad that I can't find them.

The tannenbaum will probably move to the front porch.  Can't you just picture it outside all sparkly and cozy surrounded by piles of soft billowy snow, it's white lights illuminating our entry?

Are you insane?  I am NOT counting the days till it snows, and if it held out till December 24th I'd be happy.

O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum,
wie treu sind deine Blätter

A spool top Christmas tree isn't all I've got for 'ya, no siree! 

There is a whole lot of holiday cheer being spread around the ranch today.  

Different than the usual 'stuff' I spread around.

If you want some wonderful inspiration for the season, 

take a peek at the Pinterest Junkers United Christmas Pin Board. 

The 

just might have 12 projects too... 

they are 12 elves each rolled into one, 

and leave me in the glitter dust!

Susan - Homeroad

Bliss - Bliss Ranch

Becky - Beyond the Picket Fence

Beth - Unskinny Boppy

Carlene - Organized Clutter

Laurel - Chipping with Charm

Breida - Breida with a B

Angie - Knick of Time

PLUS the 12 days of Christmas bloggers have a new post each day 

for 12 days which means at least 12 ideas each to make your holidays bright.  

Lets do math....  if I'm correct (and I rarely am with math) that would be 144 ideas.

Donna - Funky Junk Interiors

Marianne - Songbird

Michael - Inspired by Charm

Ashley / Whitney - Shanty 2 Chic

KariAnne - Thistlewood Farms

Cassity - Remodelaholic

That's a lot of junk to be inspired by,

so follow along with everyone.
 

And last but not least, it's time for the

 Junkers United Christmas link party. 

 We will be pinning our favorites to the Junkers United Christmas Pin Board
where 47,000 of your best friends can see what you have created.

I've rolled the old wood spool over to these link parties:
Christmas Extravaganza Party @TwoTwentyOne