HIGH END DOLLAR TREE DIYS FOR CHRISTMAS | HOME TOUR

Hello everyone, welcome back to White Sparrow Living Luke 12 6. I'm Wendy and today we're going to make some Dollar Tree DIYs to repurpose and at the end of this video I'm going to show you my Christmas decor and now without further ado, To get started with this project, I'm using some letter embellishments and these bead tassels and I was so excited to find them. I picked up four because I have four socks that I need to mark, so I'm going to take them all. I remove the labels and then using my Cricut spatula, I'm going to remove the original fabric that's there.

It's a really nice plaid, but those aren't the colors I have in my living room this year for Christmas and it's kind of alien to it. It had sticky space tech stuff on it so it was a little hard to get it off. I had to scrape them off too. I used a little bit of acetone and rubbed them on there and then used my putty knife again to remove them and then painted them all. my letters completely red with my crimson chalk paint and then for the beads. I love them as is, but I took my white chalk paint to match my decor, so I'm going to give them a white coating.

You can leave this. as light or as dark as you want and the Pretty Brown will be seen so that it looks really distressed and peasant and then using my Cricut cutting machine, I'm going to cut out the names of my children and my son-in-law so that we can have Kelsey Christine Brandon , her husband, and Kennedy, our baby bonus, so I cut them out real quick on my Cricut joy and then put them on the side of my letters and the font I'm using is called Annie Lou and I have it listed in the box of description below and then I'm just using my Frisco transfer tape to place it on the side of my letters and then once everything is applied I took some jute twine and just tied it in a knot through the hole . that was already there and then I just used that excess twine to tie around the beads where they join and then to hang my stockings.

I love these little hook tacks from the Dollar Tree and that's why I have this rustic wood shelf that's actually from the Pismo Coast Pier here in California, so I'm okay with putting a hole in it because you're not going to see it, they're all bumps and all that, so anyway I just push it in there and then put my Beaded Loop on. right around the top loop of my stockings that I bought at Michael's for 70 off so they were eight

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s each and then I hung them on the little hook and I was done. I love how they turned out and I hope you like them too. website on Instagram and you know how the ads will appear strangely after you've been talking about something, this is mccorner.com or something, but anyway it's on the corner, they have some really nice decorations and custom items, but Anyway, I found this beautiful acrylic ornament and knew I wanted to get it, but I tried to customize it to look like Michael J and our little dog Ozzy, who passed away last year and I couldn't get it to look the same.

They have one. that says Dad body and it just wasn't exactly right so I tried making it myself now thinking in retrospect maybe I just went ahead and ordered it because mine isn't as good as theirs but I just grabbed one from Dollar Trees of course. flat ornaments and his chalk marker and I just traced what I thought Michael J and Ozzy would look like and then I'm going to paint that and I'll tell you this was a little harder than I thought because getting the Michael's hair color J and Aussie's hair was difficult and it was also a little difficult to get her exact body so anyway she's still super sweet and I love how it turned out but once I colored it all and I could.

I can't get the right shade of his shirt or anything and I go back and make his hair a little darker so he doesn't think it's so gray. I hope he's not seeing this because it's also a Christmas present, so it's already wrapped and under the

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, but anyway I put little angel wings on Ozzy and I wrote I miss you and then on Ozzy I put I know and that made me He gets really excited and then, oh, I know he's going to love this, so he just ah. Shoot, so I put some fake snow inside and I put a little piece of Christmas greenery inside and then I took a piece of baking twine and then I wrapped it around the top and then I took the little Aussie name tag and I just I tied her. above and made a sweet little bow and then cut the edges and it was made overseas for this Dollar Tree DIY.

I'm using two of the star wreath shapes and then two of the car cloths from Dollar Tree and I'm going to Take some zip ties and put my two stars together so they're a little bit hollow on the inside. Now you can cover each of your stars first and then put them together, but I didn't want my zip ties to show from the outside even if they were white. I think it would have shown too much because you have to make two at each end of the Star like you see I'm doing here, so anyway, this way was a little more difficult, but I think it turns out very nice in the end. so I'm just going to take my car cloth after I put my two stars together and then using a little bit of glue I'm going to put it over my entire star and I wanted it to have that 3D effect so you could see all the ups and downs of the shape of the wreath, if that makes sense, then I'm going to cover it all, including the tips where my flanges are, and then I took the excess, I'm going to cut it off around the perimeter of the star. first side anyway and then I'll stick it inside so it stays put and then after it dries I'll go back in and stick it on the inside of my star and that way my tips will be covered and then when I went back in with the second chamois, I just used my hot glue and glued it from the top or bottom.

I'm assuming this is double sided so I put my hot glue in there and then stuck my suede inside to make it fit. they have clean edges oh weird weird so I grabbed two laser cut stars from the Dollar Tree and I'm just going to see where it sticks to the big star and then I'm going to use my hot glue to attach them on the front and the back and I think This would be really pretty if you put some lights inside and it would light up and the only reason I didn't is because I would have had to run an extension cord all the way down because this is the type of

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that is just lit by the stem or you know, the middle log, anyway, you know what I mean, but here it is all done and I love it so much it was the perfect size and I have some wooden beads that I bought at Walmart.

I added the Star wood that I thought matched perfectly and then of course all the fluffy whiteness that's on the tree itself, but I love this and I love my tree and at the end I'll show you my whole living room. I love this video and I hope you like it too weird for this Dollar Tree DIY. I'm using a hope ornament and then a sweet little plaque that I also found at Dollar Tree and I need to put it upright to I'm going to take off the bead hanger using my needle nose pliers and taking out the staples and then I'm going to put them back on with my nail gun. staple the other end so it goes up and down in the same direction or length, you know? that the embellishment goes so that you know when you have those projects that you think are going to be super easy, easy to squeeze out and then it ends up taking a lot longer than you thought.

I had a complete ornament malfunction, everything was going wrong on this project all the time. The reason is because of that alien technology adhesive that they use all the time, so I took my ornament and I took the greenery off and then I took off my little bow, but this glue is, I don't know, it's just something else. I tried to just pull it out but it wouldn't budge so I used my heat gun to liquefy it and then I used my big fat fingernail to get in between those little nooks and crannies to get it out and I don't know if it was because of the heat from the heat gun covering balsa wood or whatever, there's a thin layer and it started to peel off so I had to remove it all and then there was a stain that had too much adhesive on it. so it would break and oh it was crazy but anyway I ended up taking it all off and then I had to paint the edges white so if you do this project you won't have to paint the edges white while that wood didn't come out so I used some Christmas greenery and a gold star to put on top of the sign and that was it and I won't even use black and white this year because we didn't decorate our bedroom.

I'm doing everything in the living room, family, kitchen and dining room, but I still love this. I thought it would be really easy and a nice little filler project for someone who is doing the black and white and Buffalo box, but I still love it and I hope you like it too, so now let's do a couple of makeovers secondhand and I had these trees that I used on my mantel a couple of years ago and they started out gold and then turned black. We will paint them again. I have these sweet little ornaments that I used when I did the Black and White Buffalo test one year and I'm using my chalk paint on the vases and then I have this little Caboose that we're going to make. and I think I bought this at a garage sale.

I'm not even sure it's been that long so I started by painting over the vases with white, they're shaped like an urn so I made the whole vase completely white and then I'm going to come back with a mix of French linen and some wax ancient. I just blended them together and then I used a brush to make it all distressed and pretty and I love this color because it matches my mantel so I'm just going to apply that there and I really love redoing things and they become new even though they are old ones so instead of throwing them away and wasting money I can just give them new life and use them again in a whole new way and that's what I did with these ornaments I made a few years ago.

I simply changed the ribbon to red and white to match my decor and then tied a knot in them and then linked the ends and then attached them to my mantle trees. I'm going to make a big, happy bow by folding that same ribbon about three times on each side and then I'm going to make a big loop to go around again and those will be our tails and then I'm going to make little slits in the middle and then use a piece of wire of paddle to wrap it, tie it in the back and then separate my loops, cut my big loop so that those two tails fit on all the ends and I will attach them to the top of each of my trees and every time I use trees in The Mantel I'm going to flatten the back so it's completely against the wall and that way it will also make the front a lot tighter and weirder.

I'm just going to take a detail brush and change this maroon color to crimson and make it a nice red and then I took a little laser cut sign from the Dollar Tree that says imagine I'm going to paint that with my white chalk paint. and then I added a little mod podge and a little glitter to make it all shiny and pretty and then I made little wreaths with a branch of a Garland stem and then I hot glued some tiny berries to make a sweet little wreath and then I took some baking twine and I'm going to attach them to the front and back of my little alien train, then I took some more Christmas greenery from the ornaments and I'm going to attach some to the top front of my train, of course, I'll finish I added a sweet little bow to the top of this, but I wanted to light it up so I grabbed some lights from Dollar Tree and I'm going to place them right inside one of the windows, I'm going to add my batteries and I can hide the little battery. inside some greenery under the tree or wherever just get rid of it but I still have to be able to turn it on and off and then I stuck my sign on the side and added my bow and it was done and here it's all done I think.

This is a very sweet and easy way to renew something that I'm sure you can find at Goodwill or a thrift store of some kind. I love it and I hope you do too, which is why Dollar Tree has all kinds of different boxes. and I think the patterns and designs they have are very pretty. There are a bunch of different ones here that I really like for this project. I'm going to use the ones that say Marion Bright and 'tis the season with the little red truck and the sweet Red Barn. I'll use the rest to wrap gifts and then I'll also use two of these wooden planks, these measure a little over 11 inches each.

I had planned to use the wooden rulers from Dollar Tree. carry and then you won't have to make any cuts, but I didn't have anything left in my stash and I think these are a little prettier because they come out a little thicker, so they're about three inches wide and I'm only going to measure one inch and a half and then make a line so I can go down with my craft knife and divide them in half and I did it on both sides so it would be a little easier to separate or if you have some type of saw that would make this work quickly, but I didn't have one by hand, so I'm just going to cover those holes with a little bit of putty and then I'm going to use my crimson and Christmas red on acrylic. paint.

I'm going to mix those two together because the truck and barn were a little brighter and the crimson is a little deeper so I wanted them to matcha bit better. Now I'm going to take the lids of my boxes and there is a small seam right on the corners that are already punched. I just took my fingernail and broke them off and then I'm going to glue around the rest of the box, but on the top I'm going to glue the sides, so I'll leave it. I'm going to take this flap myself and then I'm going to take some jute twine and bring it to the size and length that I want it to hang, tie a knot and then make that knot go under the flap of my box and then I'm going to take some more hot glue and I'm going to glue it down so now my twine is trapped inside that top flap. thanks now I'm going to take one of my pieces and just hot glue it to the top and bottom of my box and I wanted to make sure my letters had enough room at the top so I marked where I needed it to be and then I'm going to put my hot glue right there and this is going to go over the jute twine and everything and then I'm going to do the exact same thing on the bottom thank you and then I was going to add two sweet little bows to the top of each of my signs or banners, but I decided I didn't need them and I really like the way it looks simple and plain with nothing on top but you can definitely add a bow if you want and then for the other side I'm going to do the same thing but I want to make sure that the length of my sign will be the same as the other one and as the writing is not in exactly the same position on the box lid.

I just want to make sure both signs are the same length if that makes sense, so first I glued the top board on the second sign and then I'll put them next to each other and then I'll glue the bottom one. a little bit lower because there was more space in the snow at the bottom of that foreign image and here they are all finished and I can't even tell they are box covers. I think they're really pretty and

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-end and then when you leave them folded the edges are perfect and clean and finished and they're super substantial so they're big enough to cover a pretty big wall, but I love them.

I hope you like them too. Here is my vintage Saint Nicholas floor lamp. boy and this has to be about 60 years old, they were my grandparents so I love it too, are you ready to see our finished decorated area? I'm not quite done, but this is what it looks like from our front door. I'm really excited about how it turned out, you can see I'm looking to the right, this is my hot mess area, this is where I want to do a sort of vintage area, so it's also my Etsy shop and it's where I do the reveals .

There are accessories and things that I have to put in the corner, we also have our gifts, I have received some shipments and things, so I just put them in the corner, but this is our table. My sweet friend Kathy sent me these plates. I think these are the Pioneer Woman Christmas edition plates, I'm not sure but I love them anyway and then I have this cute little sign that my mom made for our oldest son a long time ago when he was little because he didn't have a place to sit for a while. year, so she made sure that every year he had his own seat, so we've kept him for now, he's 35 now, for quite a while and then you'll see some different DIYs from Dollar Tree and some junk from Treasures. or second-hand things, so last year I had three trees in a kind of grove, there was the big one and then the two smaller side ones, but this year I decided to put them in an arch that we have.

I should have placed it a little

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er. I'll see that in the second one, so I also made a DIY tree skirt out of some U-Haul boxes. I made one of them and you'll see that in a second too, but I didn't finish the second one, so that's still on my to-do list and then I have this sofa table that Michael J bought at an auction or something, it's very sturdy and I love it because there is more area to market and put some pretty things in there. This is my fourth Christmas. I've been doing YouTube so I'm sure you'll recognize some of the projects we've done in previous years and some from this year too, but just take a look.

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, enjoy the music, ask me questions in the comment below if you have any remember the reason for the season I hope everyone has a blessed day and remember to always be the light goodbye stranger stranger stranger stranger thank you stranger stranger stranger