O' Christmas Tree

Last year I was tooling around a local antique gallery and fell in love with some reclaimed wood trees that some vendors had made.  About a month ago I found some old painted wood boards at the Flowery Branch Auction and snatched them up.  This year I would make my very own tree to add to my Christmas Mantle display.

I started with these boards, laying them out on the floor.  They were pretty dirty so I had to clean them up a bit.  Then I used a straight edge and drew diagonal pencil lines down the sides where I wanted to cut the boards.  I recruited hubby to do the cutting for me since I'm not exactly a whiz with the power tools.  He was a sweetie and used wood glue to attach the painted boards to a vertical plank we had in the garage.

Up on the mantle it went, but it was balancing on the "trunk".  A few days went by and then we heard a loud crash.  The tree had tumbled off the mantle and was laying in pieces on the floor.  I decided to go ahead and nail the planks on and added a base to the bottom so it wouldn't tumble down again.

I love the end result - it's exactly what I had pictured in my mind.  A great rustic addition to my mantle display!

XOXO

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