Christmas Tree Skirt

It’s the third Tuesday of the month, so welcome to the December Pinterest Challenge Blog Hop, hosted by My Pinterventures. The purpose of this Pinterest Challenge is to motivate all the participants of this hop (and you too) to not just pin, but to make it happen!

We moved into this house right around Christmas in 1998, and things were so chaotic we didn’t even have a tree. We strung some lights on a dying potted plant and concentrated on unpacking boxes and getting moved in, and called it good.

Our house isn’t very big, and we needed a slim tree to fit the space without overwhelming the living room. Good ones were expensive, but I kept on watching the sales and eventually found something perfect for us. And then I realized at the last minute that I didn’t have a tree skirt, so I bought this cute buffalo plaid throw with moose and bears on it, scrunched it up around the base of the tree and called that good, too.

And that has worked perfectly, for nearly 20 years, mostly because I always think about doing something more coordinated on the day we are setting up the tree, which means it doesn’t get done.

So I was pretty happy when I spied this pin:

Because I knew the pin title of  $5 was going to be a super big overstatement on what I was going to spend on finally finishing up my Christmas Tree Skirt situation.

The Crazy Craft lady steps you through the project, but the premise is easy once you see it – you need a big cardboard circle to sit under your tree that you then gather the material up and around to give it some shape, instead of just being scrunched around the base. She goes the extra mile and adds some fiberfill stuffing to give it more oompf.

Conveniently, we get these super big chipboard packing pieces at work, so I figured I’d be set for the big circle. Right up to the point where I thought about the size of my car, and so I took a little left turn on the project and cut my chipboard in half and taped it at the center.

This makes it easy to transport, and even easier to put under the bed or in a closet for the 11 months out of the year when you don’t need it.

Instead of purchasing fiberfill stuffing, I used an old pillow that was not good enough to sleep on but was still hanging around in the linen closet (everyone has one six of those, right?). 

And just like that, my Christmas tree skirt looks like I meant it to be that way, not a last second (18-year-old-second?) afterthought.

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