Give your Charlie Brown Christmas Tree a Make Over

If you are like us & have a really really "sad" Christmas tree then this blog post is for you! We purchased our artifical tree at Canadian Tire when we had just moved into our first home & we were pretty broke. The price tag was right & I figured we could make it work. This tree is pretty bad. Here is what it looks like........

Poor thing! Where are all the branches?!

 Two years ago I decided to jazz it up with some wide wire ribbon that I purchased at Michaels. I watched a couple youtube videos for inspiration & decided to go with the technique where the ribbon waterfalls down from the top of a tree making large loops.

Here is my roll of gold, white, & clear ribbon

Gather together the end of the roll & wrap it around one of the branches. You want to hold the ribbon & wrap the wire branch right around it. You can press the branch tighter to hold the ribbon in firm.  Start at the bottom of the tree & work your way up. 

End of the ribbon roll

Wrapping the wire branch around the ribbon

 Next you want to make your way up to the next branch. I try to place it where there are extra large gaps & holes in my sad Christmas tree. You are going to do the same method of gathering the ribbon together & then wrapping the wire branch around. 

Helpful side note....I put the roll of ribbon under my arm pit when I'm not using it. Things can get real messy if it starts to unravel before you are ready for it. 

Continue going up toward the top of the tree & then begin to make my way down. You begin to get a waterfall of the ribbon like this.....

                                                 

Eventually you run out of ribbon (hopefully it is in perfect timing like when you are at the back bottom branch of the tree). Our tree was quite small so I only did the front part of the tree & not the back that faces the wall. You could easily use two rolls of ribbon for this project though. 

After reaching the end, go back and play/pull the loops to make them perfect & in good placement. I love getting one of the tree lights behind the ribbon so that when the tree is on it glisten's through the gold. 

You are now ready to decorate!

So in love & it is a really quick & cheap way to spruce up your tree. 

Here's one more look at the before & after.