Burlap Christmas Trees

Burlap seems to be making its way into a lot of my projects lately. I love the simple, rustic look of it, plus it's inexpensive!

I recently made 2 burlap Christmas trees that will be a great addition to my holiday decor.

Here's how I made them...

Supplies...

Burlap

Styrofoam Tree  Forms

Small Rusted Star Tree Topper

Small Rusted Star Ornaments

Artist Wire

Pins

E6000 Glue

Wooden Candlestick

Acrylic Paint

I started by pinning a small piece of burlap to cover the top of the styrofoam and gluing on the star topper...

Then I cut strips of the burlap and began pinning it in place working from the bottom up...

I overlapped the strips of burlap to hide the  pins and the styrofoam.

The stars had a long loop for hanging...

Rather than cut the loop off, I crumpled it into a ball so the stars would still dangle...

I cut pieces of the artist wire, ran it through the crumpled loop, and gave it a twist...

I found that it was easiest to work with shorter pieces of wire and one star at a time, rather than a long piece of wire with all the stars attached.

I took the wire with the attached star and pushed one end of the wire into the back of the tree, wrapped the wire and star around the tree, and pushed the other end of wire into the tree...

I took a wooden candle stick that I got at a yard sale for a quarter and painted it with brown paint...

 Keeping with the rustic feel, I made sure I didn't get complete coverage of the paint...

Finally, I glued the candlestick to the base of the tree using E6000...

Now for the problem...

I don't know where to put them!

They look great on my mantel...

But, I think I like them even better on my back porch...

I have them sitting on an old high chair by my porch fireplace...

I'm sure they will be moved around a few times before they find their perfect home!