Friday, December 17, 2021

Thrift Store Fix-Up - A Christmas Deer Cloche

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With Christmas and New Year's rapidly approaching, I'm ready to take my annual two week break from blogging and online business.  But first I want to leave you with one last post for 2021- this cute thrift store fix up project:

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Here is the cloche as I found it; very white and stark with lights that no longer worked.  But for around $5 it was definitely worth taking home and fixing up!

I liked the size of it and the deer that were already in place, but the trees were just too plain.  I did make sure to keep those miniature cardinal birds though, and ended up saving one to put back into the finished piece.



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The first thing that I did was to remove the lighted trees and clean up the base.



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After painting the base of the cloche a pretty gold, I removed the bottoms of some bottle brush trees.  This made the trees shorter and gave a nice flat surface that I could add glue to.  With a bit of hot glue I positioned the trees around the deer.

(Here is another post where I used bottle brush trees in my holiday decor crafting)



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Next I used spray adhesive and faux snowflakes (both from Dollar Tree) to give a softer look to the ground of the scene.



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Lastly I tucked one of those cardinals into the tallest tree before putting the dome back in place.

And there you have it, a lovely winter scene from a thrift store find.
I hope you enjoyed this holiday decor post, thanks for stopping by!

Happy holidays and see you in the new year!
-Jennifer

© Studio 27 by Jennifer Adams 2021

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