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The Perfect Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree

February 22, 2017 By Erica Deuel 1 Comment

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.

I can’t wait to share more about our Spoonful of Imagination Art Studio! Be on the look out for more details soon!

 

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Rustic Christmas Tree Tutorial

November 19, 2014 By Erica Deuel Leave a Comment

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DIY_simple_christmas_treeIt’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 love the lights, color, spirit, meaning and joy that it brings.

As we wait for a house, I have been busily getting back into crafting. I started with Christmas projects of course!

Today, I am excited to share with you my rustic trees. I started with getting some basic supplies together. You might have some of these things already on hand.

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  • white poster board
  • hot glue gun
  • jute string
  • scissors
  • small wood circle (I bought mine for $0.97 at Wal-mart), but you can also find it here
  • burlap
  • any decorative fringe (I used embroidery floss and pom-poms)

Start by wrapping your poster board into a mega phone shape. Depending on how tight you wrap your poster board will depict how tall your tree will be. You can see from my picture, I wrapped them differently, so I would get two different height trees. I then used a little hot glue to hold my mega phone shape intact.

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DIY_mega_phone_formI 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.

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craft_christmas_tree_baseNext, 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.

I started by hot gluing some jute string to the base of my tree. This also made the seem from poster board to the wood circle pretty and clean. I then simply added a little glue, pressed my string into it and started wrapping and continued to add glue and string as I went up and around my tree form.

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DIY_jute_christmas_treeTo 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.

To help the jute string not look quite like a cat scratch-er, I strung some pom poms on embroidery floss and wrapped it around my tree. I love how this added a pop of color, but the tree still holds a simple look.

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DIY_burlap_christmas_treeWhat 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!

This idea is an inexpensive way to get some heightened decorative trees. These would be cute by a fireplace or on an end table.

Where would you use them?

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simple_christmas_tree_craftI 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 burlap wreath. It’s another simple craft!

Turn on a fun movie, get some hot chocolate, coffee, or tea and create!

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DIY Wood Christmas Tree Stand

December 6, 2013 By Erica Deuel 2 Comments

outdoor_christmas_tree_standHave 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.

Memories. Isn’t that something we love about Christmas?

Now that we have our own kids and they are old enough to appreciate the experience, we loaded up and headed north to the tree farms once again. Bonus: we live a lot closer to the farms now.

cutting_down_your_christmas_treeWhile 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.

oh_christmas_treeI 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.

I used my Ryobi Compound Miter Saw to cut the board into 12″ square pieces. I then stained the five pieces I cut and handed my dream project off to my awesome husband.

He used wood glue and nails to create a wood box.

building_a_wood_boxOnce 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.

building_a_christmas_tree_standMatt 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.

Wood_christmas_tree_standI 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.

front_porch_christmas_treeThis wood Christmas tree stand looks so good with my wreath from a chicken feeder. I am loving the more simple decor we are doing around our house this year. I hope you too are able to enjoy the simple things this Christmas like the joy of finding your tree.

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Christmas Joy {Stick Sign Tutorial}

November 15, 2013 By Erica Deuel 13 Comments

DIY_Christmas_signImagine 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.

That mom is me a lot of days. You have seen my stick obsession in my stick heart wall art and in my stick Thanksgiving turkey. Today, I want to show you my latest stick creation. My Christmas Joy sign!

I started with a piece of scrap Purebond wood from my planked wall. I sanded it and sprayed it with a really pretty green spray paint called Eden from Rust-oluem. It’s perfect for Christmas!

Green_spray_paintI then sanded the corners briefly with a heavy 60 grit sandpaper 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 stained my piece, but I forgot that stain eats at spray paint. Using stain over spray paint causes the spray paint to start disappearing and makes the stain hard to wipe off as it gets sticky. I quickly finished staining the board (to keep it all uniform) and wiped it off as much as I could, as soon as I remembered my mistake. For this project, I liked the look this mistake caused in creating a worn green board. I wish I had gotten more pictures, but I was in panic mood.

Next, I used some of my collected sticks to create a Christmas tree. I made the tree next to my board so I could configure the height and order placement I liked of sticks to transfer onto my board.

stick_christmas_treeI 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.

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wood_stick_christmas_treeNext, I took extra sticks and filled in gaps and holes in my tree. This step created a more dimensional, layered, and full tree.

fill_gap_holeI 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.

DIY_christmas_treeMy 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.

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Christmas_JOYMy 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.

christmas_joy_signHave you started decorating or creating for Christmas yet?

I don’t usually start this early, since I love Fall and my Jeremiah has a birthday Thanksgiving week. This year is different though. I have big plans coming. I’m brewing something fun for my out-of-state readers. Those that are close though, this little sign will be a giveaway at my next Spoonful Lab. Yay! Do you want it!? Sign up for my next lab here.

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