Happy almost Christmas time my friend!! If youre anything like me your already decorated for Christmas, the tree is trimmed & the mistletoe is up!! But when you feel like youre ‘done’ your decorating.. is it normal to look for other things to decorate?? I’m a sucker for decorating my front porch – and my side porch is no different! I was helping Brandon move wood the other day in our Barn and stumbled across my tomato vine cage from my spring crops. I couldn’t help but envision a DIY using this tomato cage.. it resembled a tree.. and boom! I had this idea to make my own ‘out door Christmas tree!’ using this cage! Now I know this little hack has been done on Pinterest before.. but I wanted to give it a new spin! Instead of using faux greenery or other Christmas decor, I decided to use some real greenery snips and boy was it fun to do! And I love the finish product. So here is a quick little tutorial on how to make your own DIY Outdoor Christmas tree!
Materials
-Tomato Cage at your preferred height
-Fresh cut greenery. I used spruce and cedar!
-Wreath wire and garden clips/snips
Process
- Wire the bottom of your cage to mimic the top of the Christmas tree- do lots and lots of wraps to ensure it doesn’t come undone by twisting through the cages etc to make it really sturdy!!
- Start at the bottom of your tomato cage and start wiring greenery that matches the length from your first wire cage to the ground. I tried to use the biggest ‘surface area’ covering clippings to you can get a good base going
- Start your second layer by overlapping your greenery to give it the flock look and ‘levels’ look. Try to keep the levels even so you really mimic a tree. I kind of got away from keeping my different levels level.. if that makes sense??
- Continue all the way up your tree making more and more levels. Try to hid your cage as best you can!
- I used my cedar for the top point to give it a little different look at the top! Now all I have to do is make sure everything is covered and ‘fluffed’ and then im good to go!
- Optional – add some twinkle 🙂
Hope you enjoyed that little DIY my friend!! Tag me on social so I can see your own tomato Christmas tree creations 😉 Until next time my friend keep DIYing!!
Talk soon,
Sam xx
