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Friday, November 12, 2010

An early start...

Somewhere in blogland I came across this tree.  I love the color scheme. 
My tree last year was nice.... but I'm more than a little tired of the red color scheme I had going on.   I looked at Wally World and their glass ornaments are $4 for a pack of 4 big glass ball ornaments, or $15 for a bunch of small ones.  I guess they're not terribly expensive, but that would be AT LEAST $19 if I ONLY got 2 packs. Certainly not enough to fill up my 9 ft tree.  

So I decided to do a little recycling, with this: 

and lots of these from my basement:

I left the gold ones alone, but after I sprayed the light and dark red ornaments, I was quite pleased and surprised with the results.
I love that the dark red ones turned out light purple, so I only did a light coat on those.  I did 2 coats on the light red to make them very pink.  They dried really quickly too, I only waited 5 min in between coats, long enough to roll them over and make sure the whole thing was painted.  

Then there were these 2 emerald green ornaments I never liked, but I'm glad I didn't throw them away last year.


And you, Hawaiian Santa,

you're perfect just the way you are...

Total Cost: $4.34 for spray paint.

This is just the first of many ideas for my tree this year.  I'm glad I was able to get them painted before the hustle and bustle of the holidays gets in full swing.   I'll be working on a few Christmas projects before Thanksgiving, so I can actually enjoy them and be ready to bust out the decorations December 1st!

3 comments:

  1. pink and purple christmas tree?! Dave would never allow it, but it would be the tree of my dreams! someday we need a boy tree(aka star wars and power tools) and a girl tree(aka pink balls and purple lights) You're amazing (as always)!

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  2. aww, thanks:-) The funny part is, my husband hasn't seen these yet-- I'm going with the "don't ask first so he can say no" logic, it usually doesn't work out well, but its already done:-)

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  3. I am your newest (and your 50th) follower! Came over from betterAfter and love what I see!!
    Great idea for all those old ornaments..gonna try this one!

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