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We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result
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We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result

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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:

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

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    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

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

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    Strip lights before peeling off the tape

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

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    Here is a video of the building process:

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    Emily Seilhamer

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    This dude right here? He works as a Community Manager at Bored Panda. Has no back-story, cause his spine works just fine. He writes about himself in third-person, and in first-person about others. Fell in love with storytelling and cannot let that love go. Now, he's here to help you make your own story simply beautiful. Secretly makes cute music samples and writes stories in the dark that nobody has ever heard of before.

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    Titas Burinskas

    Titas Burinskas

    Moderator, Community member

    This dude right here? He works as a Community Manager at Bored Panda. Has no back-story, cause his spine works just fine. He writes about himself in third-person, and in first-person about others. Fell in love with storytelling and cannot let that love go. Now, he's here to help you make your own story simply beautiful. Secretly makes cute music samples and writes stories in the dark that nobody has ever heard of before.

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