Upcycled Wood Spool Christmas Tree

Hold on to your tinsel, 
this spool is full of Christmas cheer!
 My creation is an upcycled, recycled, junktastic project......

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

One of them has been taken apart.

Cut to shreds.

Sawed in half.

Just like magic.

Husband magic.

It's so cool I don't need my eggnog spiked to make my head spin!

The spool top received a masking-tape tree shape and the Brawn of the operation took pity on my sawing skills 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 cut 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.

The bling are 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 out of the wood 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 and the fresh cold drifts?

Are you insane?

I am NOT counting the days till it snows, and if snow held off till December 24th I'd be happy.

O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum,
wie treu sind deine Blätter

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

Which is 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. 

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