During the holiday season I look forward to getting our Christmas Tree put up and decorated in a Coastal Beach Style. The Christmas Tree stands 7 foot tall with a frosted snow appearance. It has a remote control with oodles of different color and white light functions. It wasn’t cheap but it certainly was a wonderful investment in our holiday decor.
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Anyway, last year when Christmas was over I hit up the bargain clearance sales to look for a tree collar. As expected, they were very picked over and NONE were done in a Coastal Beach style. NONE. I decided that I would have to make my own so I purchased a solid black metal Christmas Tree Collar on clearance for $10.00 and packed it away for this year. I knew it had a lot of potential to become what I needed it to be!
Two weeks ago I got it out of the attic to work on it. The first thing that I did was spray paint it with 2 cans of paint in a seaglass color. This color matches the theme I’ve got going on in the family room plus will go with all of our coastal Christmas decorations. When spray painting…make sure you do it outdoors with proper ventilation. I gave it 2 coats so that I could completely cover up the black.
Now it was time to decorate it. I purchased resin sand dollars from Amazon and real white starfish. I used 4 sand dollars and 4 starfish. Get out the hot glue gun and attach them to the Tree Collar evenly spacing them out as you go around. Let the glue dry and cure overnight.
Extra Tip – If you’re going to be storing it in a hot attic (during the summertime) I recommend that you attach them using Gorilla Glue. Hot Glue softens up with high heat and your seashells will fall off.
I think our new Coastal Beach Christmas Tree Collar turned out beautifully! For less than $20.00 I got exactly the look I was going for. You can always pick up a solid color Christmas Tree Collar…paint it and decorate it to go with any style of decor that you may have in your home. I suggest hitting up those clearance sales once the holiday is over for the best bang for your buck.
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Once again you did a great job in changing an item to your coastal style. I did not know that hot glue softens in the heat.
That is really nice. I am glad you made just the way you wanted it to look.
This tree collar is so pretty you did a wonderful job on it. That tree is amazing too.
Some how some way I missed this stuff with tree collars. This is first year I have read about them.
The one you made is beautiful