Filthy Gorgeous Feather Trees

Trees done right!  Gold tinsel feather tree with flicker lights and vintage jewel tone ornaments; Silver glitter paper feather tree, with vintage pastel ornaments; White beaded feather tree with vintage primary colored ornaments (l-r & top-bottom).   

I was putting together Christmas visuals (over the past few days- yes before Christmas!  Im in retail man!  What do you want from me!) and was struck by the number of comments that our Feather trees were receiving!  I mean, yes, they are beautiful.  But more than that, they are SO easy to reproduce!  SO easy.  And, for the Tracys of the world, I thought to m'self, I says, 'self, what better holiday gift might I offer than a gift of affordable, and practical beauty?  Let me teach them the basics of the Filthy Gorgeous Feather Tree.'  So, here you are, Happy Holidays and all that jazz.  

1.  For those of you who are more, oh what's the word, hmmm... uh, we'll just say, tight with the wallet and therefore not 'able' to go down to the Store and buy a feather tree, you need to first find yourself a base.  Im suggest taking your happy hips out to the back yard and finding a sturdy YET SPARSE branch (approx. 36" long) and removing all of its remaining foliage.  The rest of you, run down to FG and pick up one of the ones Im selling for way less than I should be!

2.  Spray your bare branch with either silver or gold or opalescent glitter (add a dusting of loose glitter to wet spray for added effect) OR spray snow (yes, they have that now).  When dry, insert into a tall vase to secure an upright position.  The rest of you, insert your newly purchased feather tree into its stand.

*you may, at this point add lights if you desire to.  I recommend adding lights only to heavier tree versions as the electric cord can overpower a thinner branched type- but I can only offer you my recommendation ... and sigh.

3.  Select an assortment of ornaments to hang.  This is important, because without a varied assortment of decorations, your tree will look like one of those bad, assembly line, department store trees (you know, like the ones behind the makeup counters) with a bad case of Alopecia. And, assortment refers to the style/patern/texture of the pieces.  I do suggest keeping color ways similar (pastels, primary, etc).  

4.  RANDOMLY begin to hang your ornaments allowing the disbursement to take on its own shape organically.  However, you may favor placing heavier pieces towards the lower portions of the tree.   

5.  If ribbon or garland is needed, adhering to a similar logic for density as you did when hanging ornaments, add now.  

THATS IT!  Donchu just loves it?!!???  Enjoy!

-J