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When is a Christmas tree not a tree?

When it’s a stack of dishes, or a pile of scrap lumber, or melted crayons?

Is it a tree simply because of the shape?

If you add a star on top does that make it a Christmas tree?

I say…

Yes, yes, yes and yes!!

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Dish Christmas Tree

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Today a talented group of Hometalk bloggers is gathering at the end of our posts to share Home for Christmas posts.  Make sure to visit each and everyone along with me. 🙂

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My Home for Christmas starts with a pile of dirty dishes.  It will end with an even larger pile of dirty dishes, but that just part of the holidays, right?

This pile of dishes is special because they came from thrift stores and yard sales.  The most expensive dish was $3.

The idea for this project started forming in May.  I found the star-shaped dish at our Humane Society thrift store and thought, “what a great topper for a Dish Christmas tree.”

I used peel and stick type hooks to hang the dishes.  Tip:  Make sure to stay very close to the wall as you pull the tab to remove the hooks.

Extra Tip:  You can also hang small plates using a straight pin.  I chose the peel and stick since some plates are larger and platters.

For hooks on the dishes, I used paper clips and hot glue.  The hot glue will simply “pop” off like my falling leaves on our glass front door.  Yes, as I’m writing this post the falling leaves are still on our front door!

I gathered my favorite thrifty dishes and started laying them out in a tree shape.  I arranged and rearranged.  Then moved a couple around.  Next switched out a few.   Added others I forgot about.  Rotated platters one way then back once more.

When an arrangement appeared that I loved…I snapped a picture.  Tip:  When laying out arrangements of anything take a picture of the final arrangement.  You will have a map to go by later.

In my final arrangement, you will notice the plates are laying on the back side of Christmas wrapping paper with the square cutting lines.  Isn’t that a fabulous idea for wrapping paper?

I thought it would be a good idea to mark on the paper where the hooks should be since the plates are different sizes.  I marked each spot.  Hung the paper with painters tape.  Pushed through the paper with a pencil to mark the wall.  Next, I hung the hooks following my marks.

Then as I hung the plates…

I moved a couple of hooks a few….okay several times. 😕  It would have been easier to start from the star and hang plates down the center.  Then hang the side plates.

You might have noticed the dish Christmas tree is lit! 😀

Here’s how I added lights…

Each dish has a “pocket” on the back made with painters tape.

Inside each pocket, I added a little battery light.  I found these lights HOSL 60 Pack White LED Party Lights Decoration light For Paper Lanterns Balloons Floral on Amazon.  They are LED lights for paper lanterns.  You will notice the lights are slightly larger than my multivitamin!

I can not take a good photo at night!  But here’s the dish Christmas tree lit in the evening.  We enjoy the light so much each evening I’m planning a similar project that’s permanent and not so holiday.  More on that soon!

To help make the tree a tree…I added my faux fireplace logs to a vintage styled bucket for the trunk.  I placed a forlorn ornament next to the bucket.

Yes, this stack of dishes is a Christmas tree, just like a stack of lumber or melted crayons are Christmas trees.

Now join me and visit other Home for Christmas ideas below.

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