Diy centerpieces with branches & lights
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Elegant centerpieces made with tree branches and lights bring a warm, romantic flair to your dining or living room. They're also an ideal choice for wedding table centerpieces in the fall and winter, or focal pieces on an office end table. Create your own centerpiece and enjoy its luxurious appeal while being frugal. Once you learn how easy it is to make one, create more for every season, plus holidays like Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Things You'll Need
- Garden scissors
- Lopping shears
- Gardening gloves
- Latex gloves
- Battery-operated string of clear lights
- Vase
- Boa with faux feathers
- Tree branches
- White or silver spray paint
- Block of Styrofoam
Instructions
1
Visit a craft store to purchase a white boa with faux feathers and a 1-foot tall, 1-foot wide vase. Insert the boa into the vase, separating and fluffing the boa feathers. Set the vase aside.
2
Put on your gardening gloves and head outdoors. Find tree branches that allow you to cut 3 feet of branch off while still leaving a generous stump behind. Using your lopping shears, cut branches that have multiple branches at the end to bring more dimension to your centerpiece. If you don't have a tree, ask your neighbors if they'd mind you trimming some branches off their trees. Cut three branches for your centerpiece.
3
Replace the gardening gloves with the latex gloves. Use you garden scissors to remove any short stumpy branches or debris. Spray the branches with white or silver spray paint until they're fully covered. Let them dry for 30 minutes and repeat.
4
Place the Styrofoam block in the center of the vase. Push each branch through the block so that the end hits the bottom of the vase and is secure. Begin hanging the string of clear lights starting from the upper branches working your way down. Make sure the battery pack is at the end. Put the battery pack in the center of the vase, on top of the Styrofoam block. Separate the boa feathers to the outer walls of the vase so the branch bottoms, Styrofoam block and battery pack are all covered.
Tips &- Warnings
Switch up the theme of your centerpiece by using different spray paint colors for the branches or colored lights instead of clear- clear lights evoke an elegant feel.
Hang ornaments on the branches during Christmas time, or decorated eggs around Easter.
Make sure you test the lights and batteries before you string them through the branches.
When leaving the room for the night, always turn the lights off.
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