Disclosure: The product was supplied by Thermaleaf. All opinions are my own.
I’m pretty excited. I found the perfect tree for this black thumb.
I have wanted a Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree for a while. They always look so beautiful in pictures, and those big green leafs add so much warmth and life to a space. The bad news is, I can barely bring myself to buy bushes anymore. After a week in my care, they are toast. I couldn’t do that to a tree!? It would be like throwing money away. Let’s face it. Plants are just not my thing.
As we are opening our art studio, I have been dreaming and processing fun decor that will help this big space feel warm and friendly. A tree would be perfect, so I was all too excited when a sweet representative of Thermaleaf.com reached out to me. Would I try one of their beautiful tress!? Yes, I would love too. It was an easy yes, and I couldn’t be more pleased with my tree!
To be completely honest, I was a bit nervous. I didn’t know how real or how vibrant the leaves would look in person. I was hopeful, and I couldn’t ave been more thrilled opening this tree up. I’m pretty sure I was squealing and my kids came running to see what the fuss was about.
I picked their 5″ fiddle Leaf Fig Tree. This was only one style of several Fig Trees that had. Not to mention, there are lots of other styles of trees available. To see their complete inventory, you can click here.
I know this tree will make our commercial, rented space feel warmer, and I am thrilled. When I was browsing and trying to choose which tree I wanted, I could have picked numerous trees! I was pleased to find though that Thermaleaf is the safest artificial foliage on the market; meeting local, national and international fire codes. Win!
If you too have a black thumb or even just want a stunning tree in a room that doesn’t have good light, check out this company. You can also connect with them on Twitter and Facebook as well.
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It’s almost the most wonderful time of year. I like to think everyday we get is a gift and can be the most wonderful time of year, but Christmas is special.
I then dropped my wood circle inside the mega phone to where it got snug and it stopped going down. This is where the base of the tree should be. I cut all the poster board off that was higher than the wood circle.
Next, I hot glued the wood circle in place. This created an inexpensively made tree form. From here, you can use your imagination and decorate that tree any way you want! I will show you a wrapping idea that I used.
To be completely honest, the jute string took a while. It was mindless. No thinking was required, but it got a little tedious. That is why on my second tree form I did the same technique but wrapped and twisted burlap. It was so much quicker. Ultimately, I am glad I did the jute string on one of my tree forms. I love the look of the string tree with the burlap tree. They are both rustic materials, but different mediums that created its own look.
What do you think!? Do you like the rustic look too and want to incorporate it for Christmas? You can use your imagination once you have your tree base and embellish your tree form any way you like!! I think glitter would be beautiful or gluing pom poms or feathers all over would be stunning as well! There are lots of possibilities!
I don’t usually share Christmas before Thanksgiving, but with moving I think Christmas will come and go so quickly and I don’t want to miss it. If you like this tree idea, you might also like my 
Have you ever loaded your family up (like on Christmas Vacation) and headed out to cut down a Christmas tree? Matt and I were a little excited our first year of marriage and took up that task. It was a good three-hour drive, where my youngest brother (who we took with us) kept asking why we didn’t just buy one from the lot in front of Cicis pizza.
While shopping for trees, my J and I fell in love with all the little trees they had. We decided we needed one of those as well and cut one to take it home.
I had visions of creating a wood box to hold the little tree on our front porch. I started out on my dream by getting a long 12″ piece of wood.
Once the box was created, he measured for the middle and drilled a huge hole into the center of the box. This hole was wider than the circumference of our tree trunk, which was perfect.
Matt is creative and took it even a step further than I had imagined. He screwed an old spaghetti jar lid to the inside of the box, so when the jar was twisted onto the lid, it could hold water for our tree. I was merely going to put a pitcher under our box to hold the water. Both ways work, so you could go whichever way you want, if you want to create this same tree stand.
I love the simplicity of the design. It’s simple, yet so pretty. The natural look with a few shiny lights at night is so pretty.
This wood Christmas tree stand looks so good with 
Imagine a mom out in the backyard playing with her kids. As she is noticing the change of color in the trees and enjoying the cool breeze, she can’t help but keep gathering sticks and throwing them in a pile. To do what with them she does not know, but she has to save them.
to round them. From there it got a bit crazy, and I retaught myself a lesson that I’ve learned the hard way like five other times now.
I then picked one stick up at a time and hot glued a strip of glue along it ad placed it onto my green board. I simply kept doing this method, so my tree grew taller and taller till I had transferred all the sticks.
Next, I took extra sticks and filled in gaps and holes in my tree. This step created a more dimensional, layered, and full tree.
I really like the simplicity of this tree. I didn’t want to dress it up much, since it was pretty obvious it was a tree. I simply glued a little yellow, wood star at the top and my tree was done.
My last step was to add JOY to my Christmas sign. What is Christmas without joy, right!? I picked out the letters from one of my stencils, and I dabbed red paint to paint the letters onto my board. I then decided to paint the letters in solid and outlined them with a thin Sharpie to give the joy a small pop.
My Christmas sign was then complete! I love how it turned out. It was free to me, since I had all the supplies. I think this simple craft makes a great Christmas decor item.
Have you started decorating or creating for Christmas yet?