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[Kachina624]

Does anyone have a stash of old, old unused jewelry, and beads or faux pearls?  Here's a beautiful, very simple way to utilize them.  It might be worth a trip to a flea market just to gather enough for these beautiful trees.  Take a Styrofoam cone, a pretty weighted container, and a glue gun and you're set.  I love the pink one.

[BirdieGal]

Beautiful! I remember as a child my mom and I making a framed flat vintage jewelry Christmas tree. I have no idea what happened to it, would love to have it. It was beautiful. We put lights into the back of the piece in the tree like traditional tree lights.

[Gram W]

They are beautiful.   Over the summer while downsizing my fashion items I donated older jewerly I seldom wear.   Wish I still had some of it and I would try it.   I need to go to the thrift store and see what I can buy.

My mother was crafty like that.    When my sister and I got our first jewerly pieces she taught us to take old jewerly she no longer wore and helped us decorate our own jewerly boxes.   We made Christmas decorations but never like that.  We did decorate picture frames and mirrors for our rooms.  We used beads and small shells collected on Venice Beach, FL.   Oh how the years fly by.

[Kachina624]

@Gram WThose projects are really fun, especially for family members to do together.  Maybe you can go buy your donated jewelry back?

[catchersmom]

@Kachina624 what a fantastic idea....I have some old/not worn/broken base metal chains....I bet you could use those too as shiny garland.

Maybe even paint some of the chains that could use some sprucing up...

The pink is very pretty! My favorite is the large one in the back

[haddon9]

Those are beautiful and look like they would be fun to make!

[Nataliesgramma]

 I have a drawer full of old jewelry like this from my Mom and Hubby's Aunt. My daughter wanted to make that Christmas tree picture using it last year....

I just couldn't part with it then....but maybe it's time. Better on the wall or for these trees than in the drawer...

[Peaches McPhee]

Beautiful!  I have mentioned on here, before, that my aunt had her mother's old rhinestone jewelry made up into a Chistmas tree shape on velvet and framed it.  It was gorgeous!  That had to be 45 years ago, and I still remember it.