Easter Rebirth

I've had an Easter tree (photo here) for some years, purchased when Michael's originally started selling them over a half-dozen years ago. As you can see, it's a very basic Easter tree, with spare white, straight branches. The support block, which is also white, I've always buried under Easter grass as shown.

This year Michael's has a "hipped-up" Easter tree which I've been looking at with some envy. The ends of its white branches are curled and it has leaves and tiny flowers wound around its stem. I considered buying it, but it's so overly decorated that I thought it would take away from the cute little Easter tree ornaments that I've bought over time. I wanted a bit of an update, not a major overhaul.

So that's what I've been doing this afternoon.

First I found Mom's old looping pliers that she used for her jewelry work. She always bought her own tools because the pliers and things they provided at Tesoro didn't always fit her hands. I curled the end of each branch in a C-shape and then, on the longer branches, I also put little coils in them, one on the shorter of the long branches, a double coil on the very longest branches.

Then I dug out my embroidery threads and pulled about eighteen inches off each of these colors: lavender, pale blue, spring green, a bright pink, and yellow. I separated them out to two threads each and then took turns winding the colored threads around the trunk as you would do with ribbons on a maypole. I tied them at the top and then used a bit of tape to secure them at the bottom.

I'm presently waiting for the pale blue that I painted the base to dry. When it is dry, I will put on another coat, and then sprinkle on the pink, yellow, purple, and green glitter that I got in a $1 glitter kit at JoAnn.