Cluttered CorkBoard

We have a decorative rustic fence near the road by our house that I usually
decorate up for the holidays.. for the fall I had a pumpkin and scarecrow
and fall floral/country wreath.
Well, I decided to make a Christmas tree to put there this year.
One with lights was my goal.

So I started with a scrap piece of wood that I dug out of the garage and just
drew a whimsical tree shape.. nothing fancy.
I cut it out with my jigsaw, gave it a light sanding, and then a couple coats of
spray paint.
Green of course. :0)



I brought the 'tree' indoors and decided to use battery powered with a timer
lights..  In debating how to put them on, I decided to use burlap ribbon.

So i cut a little opening every so often to insert a light.





Then took a look at my finished burlap lights, and
made sure they still worked after prying around on them to shove them
through the holes. :0)




Then I stapled the burlap ribbon on in a zig zag random pattern.


Lights still working.. yay!

Then I added a 'Merry Christmas' ornament to it..
(staple guns are great!) :0)


and here she is outside..



She looks pretty at night too.. and I have always wanted to put lights there but
never have before.  Yay for battery powered lights with a timer!

Total cost for this project was less than $10.00 since I used scrap wood that was
leftover from other projects, and already had the paint and ribbon on hand.
The lights were less than $6.00 and the ornament was $1.00.
Gotta love low cost projects! :0)






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