How to make a tree of happiness with your own hands

One of the simplest and most surprisingly attractive creative processes is the creation of a tree of happiness. Small wonderful trees have recently become very popular as a home decoration and as a lovely spiritual gift. The symbolic value of such a souvenir makes it more attractive twice, because one does not want to attract happiness and luck to the house with the help of a flowering bush.

Making a tree of happiness with their own hands is very simple. In this process it is easy to involve children, so it is pleasant and fascinating. For work you will need to pick up a nice little pot. If suitable is not available, decorate with a colored cord or simply paint with a gold paint an ordinary clay pot for flowers. The crown of a tree can be very diverse, and various objects can be used for its manufacture: artificial flowers, dried cones, painted with gold and silver paint, glass or plastic beads, beautiful artificial or natural moss, etc.

1. To create the tree of happiness with our own hands, we begin with selection of the trunk. A round stick or a real planed sprig will do, you can even with small knots. The stick is varnished or painted green. Now proceed to the crown. From a thin jersey (old pantyhose), cut out the circle as wide as possible in diameter, along the edge with a thread with a needle, lay the usual stitches and slightly tighten them. It was a bag. After this, the bag begins to be tightly packed with small foam balls, pieces of foam rubber or cotton soak until you get a round tight ball. We tighten the thread more tightly, pass the end of the barrel into the hole and finally tighten the thread, wrapping it around the base near the ball.

2. We continue to create a tree of happiness with our own hands. Now the stem needs to be fixed in the pot. It is better to mix gypsum with water and pour a two-thirds stick placed in the center of the pot. After the gypsum has solidified, the trunk will firmly hold. You can use a floral sponge or a rolled-in hinge wire. On top of the bottom of the tree must cover with colored moss, pebbles or glass balls.

3. After the tree of happiness, made by hands, firmly fixed in a pot, we begin to create a wonderful crown. We will use small artificial flowers and leaves. From each flower cut off the head about three centimeters of the stem and stick it into the prepared ball. Consistently cover the entire surface, combining flowers of different colors and types. Between the heads of flowers you can insert rounded or slightly oblong small leaves, also leaving each wire tip no longer than three centimeters. The field of how the entire surface of the ball-crown will be filled with flowers, the tree of happiness with their own hands is made.

4. Using a glue gun, the ball of the crown can be pasted with real bay leaves, which are sold as a seasoning. Begin to lay them from the crown in a circle, gradually moving to the base of the crown. Bay leaves should be glued only half, leaving the tips not glued and slightly lagging behind the surface. So the form will be more interesting. After the entire surface of the ball is covered with leaves, the decor is completed with small glass beads of gold or red color, which are attached to the crown in some places, one or two at a time.

Trees of happiness with their own hands can be made from pebbles-gems left from old beads, and bizarre snags or rhizomes of plants. The root should be rinsed well, freed from the ground, cut off excess side small roots, leaving only thick enough sprouts. Cover them with varnish and dry them. Then turn the rhizome upward and attach to the decorative base, which can serve as a fragment of marble or granite. Then, using an adhesive gun on the roots, glue the gemstone stones in a chaotic order, where it is solitary, where it is bunch. It turns out a very original tree of happiness. A master class for making such trees or the like can be found on the Internet.