Vintage Ornament Upcycle

 

I've seen so much beautiful, vintage style Christmas decor using bottlebrush trees & vintage ornaments. So, when I saw some pretty, vintage ornaments at a local antique store for only $1 each, I bought them. I knew I had everything else needed to create something pretty, starting with vintage tart tins. I bought the tins at a yard sale. It's been years so I don't remember what I paid. But, I've used quite a few of them in other projects.

I removed the cap & hook from the top of the ornament, turned the tin upside down & glued the ornament in place using E6000.

All the projects like this that I've seen have the bottlebrush trees glued into the ornament. I wanted my tree to appear as though it is in snow. So, I piped spackle onto the top of the ornament. You can see how I pipe the spackle onto another project HERE.

Bottlebrush trees are something else I have an excess amount of! I looked for one that appeared a little more vintage, removed the wooden disc base, & inserted the tree into the ornament. The spackle will work as glue once it dries.

I like it! But, I wished I had "snow" under the ornament too. At this point there's not much room to add it. But, luckily I had bought 2 of the vintage ornaments.

So, I took the cap from the second ornament & glued it upside down onto another tart tin. Then I glued the bottom of the ornament onto the cap so that I still had an opening at the top to insert the tree.

This gave me enough room at add some snow underneath the ornament.

I love how they both turned out & am not sure which is my favorite.

I'm going to be on the hunt for more vintage ornaments to make these for friends as gifts for next year!

Linking To:

The Cottage Market,  Funky Junk Interiors, The Answer Is Chocolate, Flutter Buster, Our Hopeful Home, My Thrift Store Addiction,  Confessions Of A Plate Addict, My Uncommon Slice Of Suburbia, Creatively Beth, County Road 407, Pieced Pastimes, Southern Sunflowers, The House On Silverado