![]() Well there you have it, my minimalist Christmas tree. I wrote about how to create a Zero Waste Christmas or an Eco-Friendly Christmas, in my other blog posts and you can check it out if you’d like any ideas. I like to wrap my gifts in reusable fabric and reusable fabric bags and place them under the tree. You can place a blanket in front of the tree to place presents on and it’ll still look like and regular Christmas Tree. It’s interesting when I stand back and look at the tree, because even the keychain pendants have a unique memories tied to them. You can click on that blog post, Christmas Ornaments Hack and read about how I made them. If you have delicate or fragile ornaments, consider double looping them around a Christmas light or using a paperclip to hang them up by securing it to the branch (the way you secured the previous paper clips to the pushpins).Ī lot of my ornaments are fairly light and I create ornaments from old keychains I’ve collected over the years. If you have trouble hanging the ornaments up, hang the lighter ornaments on the lights themselves and hang the heavier ornaments on the pushpins. I hung my ornaments around each light and distributed them as needed. The sequence for each branch will still be the same. The height of this tree ended up at about six feet high from the floor. However, the longer the cord, the wider the base should be. If you really want to test out how far your can push this design, link up two cords and see how tall you can make it. ![]() However, if you have a longer cord and you still start out at a 36″ wide bottom branch, your tree will be taller, which may look just as beautiful. If you have a longer length of cord and you want the bottom branch to be wider, you can do just that. The height of your tree will really depend on the width of your bottom branch. I repeated these steps, for each branch of the tree, where each time I subtracted two inches for each branch and measured six inches up to place the next push pin. I straightened my 34″ section of the cord and placed a paper clip onto it and hooked it onto that pushpin. This 36″ length of the cord would create the bottom branch of the tree.įrom there, I measured out 34″ of the next section of the cord and moved in the opposite direction of the bottom branch and measured 6″ up, where I placed the next push pin. I then hooked a paperclip to my cord so that it would reach the pushpin. I first plugged in my cord and measured out 36″ in the direction I wanted my tree to be located, and then 6″ up. For a 25′-0″ cord I was using, it seemed like a good base point. I wanted the base to be 36″ wide, simply because it was the width of a standard door. This lead to my Christmas tree design, made up of Christmas lights. However, I wanted to figure out a way to simplify that. ![]() My family has always used a fake tree so we always knew exactly how much mess to expect when decorating for this holiday. Which means of course, that I was determined to minimize my decorations for this holiday. It’s not just the food that’s plentiful, but the decorations as well.
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