Every year my husband and I create our own Christmas tree from random materials. This year our tree floats! We used reflective foam insulation to create 3d snowflakes in different sizes. Because the fabric was so light, we were able to hang the entire thing from the ceiling with a fishing line and a few nail hooks. Luckily in the dark, the fishing line is barely visible. Here’s how it turned out:

More info: Facebook | emilyseilhamer.com

Daytime

Night-time

Details

This is the material we made it from. 50 feet of reflective foam insulation

Measuring and cutting the snowflake sections

An assembled snowflake

All the snowflakes ready to be hung

Each snowflakes is hung from a series of nail with fishing line from the ceiling

It doesn’t touch the floor

Adding strip lights with a sticky back so they stay in place

Strip lights before peeling off the tape

Going with a “cool” theme, we did a series of blues

Finished

Us

Here is a video of the building process:

Games

View all games

Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing!

Follow Bored Panda on Google News!

Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda!