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Mannequin Christmas Tree With A Peacock Theme

November 18, 2016 by Carolyn 2 Comments

Hello all you crafty people, Carolyn Wainscott here.

Have you seen those beautiful Christmas trees converted from a mannequin and tree branches?  I began seeing them before Christmas last year on Facebook and fell in love with the idea but it was too close to Christmas. It would also have been a bit more involved than I wanted to get into so I filed the idea on my bucket list. [If I get everything on that bucket list done I will have to live to be 400 years old and probably beyond because it keeps getting longer as the days go by]

Now is the time to make my mannequin Christmas tree. It just so happened that I have a couple of display dress forms that I had  purchased at a store going out of business for $5 each but they had no stands. That would be no problem-I have made stands using a defunct yard sale floor lamp,  a stand from a thrown away floor fan, mop handles in old Christmas tree stands and anything else that will hold my offbeat creations. Then chicken wire needed to be formed and attached-ok-I have chicken wire.

However, I still didn’t want to go to so much trouble-then-I thought of the 18″ styrofoam bust I had gotten on sale, of course, at Joann’s after Halloween last year. My daughter said she had a small, 4 ft., prelit white tree in the basement I could use-s00000000-there was my easy way out that turned into a bigger production than originally intended but things usually do for me. For one thing, the original tree base had been lost in moving so I had to come up with a sturdy base. I stole the one from my umbrella table, cleaned it up and spray painted it with a metallic silver.

Putting the tree together:

A hole was cut from the bottom of the styrofoam bust for the tree:

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the tree fit nicely into the stand I had stolen from my umbrella table:

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The bust needed a little more elegance so paper lace doilies were decoupaged on using Mod Podge. I tried fabric laces but none worked on the styrofoam.

Then the fun part-decorating

Our Christmas decorations had been scavenged for my poinsettias, garlands, beads and anything else that might be usable. My initial vision with beautiful mauve poinsettia garlands went out the window [now I will have to make another for this theme] when  the peacock decor came to mind and here she is:

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The Peacock Themed Tree has:

18″ styrofoam bust

4′ prelit tree

15″ peacock [from craft store]

blue feathers [wired on with blue pipe cleaners]

peacock themed Christmas sprays [cut apart and scattered in tail]

6″silver rhinestone trim [bridal department at Michaels-1 1/2″ trimmed and glued at top of bodice, 4″ remaining glued to bottom of bodice]

1/2 yard fabric on bodice was hand sewn on [I fortunately had a metallic peacock  piece that had been in my stash for years-matched perfectly for this]

crystal beads randomly hot glued on bodice

blue and silver sequin trim glued onto top and bottom of silver trim

20 yards 6″ tulle

ornaments

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Let us know what you think.

May the joy of crafting be upon you

Carolyn Wainscott

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Comments

  1. Mary D says

    November 19, 2016 at 3:01 am

    What I think is that I should provide you my mailing address so that this beautiful mannequin tree can be on its way to me. 🙂 How gorgeous. Now I will have to find a way to make me one.

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  2. Brenda Ruiz says

    December 3, 2016 at 1:59 am

    I was in a consignment shop today on the east side of Cincinnati and saw something very similar. It was gorgeous. Came home, logged onto my computer to see the original!
    Amazing, and what a blessing to have such talent.

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