For Christmas, it's out with the artificial and in with the art!

This year we decided to take a spin on how we choose to celebrate Christmas, so rather than buying a 6ft artificial Christmas tree and covering it in plastic of all sorts or cutting down an actual Christmas tree, why not make our own tree. How we went about it was, going for a walk in a park one afternoon, whereby some tree branches had fallen, so we picked them up and repurposed them, by giving them new life in the form of a branch Christmas tree. Then using some natural jute rope about 4mm thick and tying each end of the many stick layers we wanted we were able to make a five-layer stick Christmas tree. If your good with some hand stitching you can make your own little tree ornaments with some left-over fabrics, you may have laid around, or you could help support some small businesses who make these sustainable ornaments. Then to combat the need of using electricity you can pop over to your local B&M and find yourself the cutest knot free copper fairy lights and wrap it around your tree as you wish, now you may be wondering "well how are these lights powered" the answer is either through them being solar powered or you could get yourself rechargeable batteries. You could also try your local Hobbycraft and get yourself a ceramic pottery kit and make your ornaments yourself, or if you have kids, you could use this as an exciting activity for them and lastly repurpose some wood and make your own little ornament too if you wish. P.S did you know you can make the cutest ornaments using your toilet roll core. Try out Pinterest for some ideas.

Well...wishing everyone a Merry Christmas! Hope you all enjoy this week’s post on how to make your own sustainable Christmas tree. Reach out and share your pictures with us!!

Casey xx