Salt Lick Shop: lights

Apr 2, 2015

BATTERY OPERATED FLAME TIP LIGHTS | CRAFT FAIR LIGHTING

I took some clear silicone (the higher priced one, not the white caulk kind)

and mixed in some cinnamon spice in a throw away bowl.

(How To Make Grungy Tea Lights with Recipe)

Just mix it until it's a nice smooth brown color. No real recipe here. Just play around with it.

It should look something like this:

And that is about all to the mixture.

This is the little strand of red, round lights, battery operated that I bought at the DOLLAR MART for only $1.00

Awesome already but not very primitive looking:

I took each little bulb and hand dipped each into the mixture.

A quick fast dip is the key to getting the cute sharp tip.

Then, I clipped the string of lights up on my patio umbrella using clothespins for them to dry.

And once dry this is what they looked like:

These turned out super cute.

I wish I would have taken a photo of them in use.

I had put them in my craft Booth #555 on top of the fireplace logs.

They looked awesome until they sold.

~~$4.99~~

Thank you!

Nov 1, 2012

CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENT DISPLAY | Great for Craft Fairs or Displaying Favorite Ornaments

EASY CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENT DISPLAY

I thought I'd share with ya'll a cute wooden Christmas tree that I use to display my Christmas tree ornaments in my craft booth.
It would also be a cute way to display some of your favorites in your home too!

I didn't make this exact one, however it'd be super easy to construct.

I won this at an auction in Northern, KY for only $1.00!!! LOVE IT!

It didn't have the nails to hold things or the strand of lights, but the body of it was great.
I am thinking about making another one so I can sit one on each side of my booth. So here's how it's constructed.

So simple. (sorry, it was a lil blurry, i took these first 2 with my iphone & no flash.)

You can see it's basically a cut out of a smooth type plywood, in the shape of a sad Christmas tree. I say sad because the lil limbs all hand downward. lol. And it's painted a forest green.

Here's a closer up look at it, very easy to construct: front: (these below i took with a real camera lol.)

The base is super simple. The front had a piece knocked off when I got it, but I think it just adds a piece of character.

It's just a flat piece of wood, kinda think, maybe an inch and has a lil weight to it.

Side:

It's braced with only a simple piece of wood, cut in a rectangle, that holds the tree frame to the base.

Back: again, very simple construction

And there are nails from the bottom of it, up into the pieces of wood. It's never fallen over and I've had it loaded over the past few years with ornaments.

To make for some hanging spots, I took some headless nails and tacked them all up and down the tree to give me some hanging spots like so:

And oh yea, i took a dry brush and streaked it with some black because I wanted it to look a lil older to fit the theme of my booth. I also wish I'd had old rusty looking nails at the time, but I didn't.

And here it is again, all loaded down and lit up:

Here's a better photo to show the ornaments hanging.