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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:

More info: Facebook | emilyseilhamer.com

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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

Emily Seilhamer

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I want to inspire you. Creativity is contagious, pass it on.

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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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Kanga9ine
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So what kind of cookies does one leave equal to this show stopper. Santa must love the creative side of the tree. Christmas is from the heart. Tradition must get a tweak every so often. Evolution. Or amendments added to The Christmas Tradition. Flexibility of the mind. Plus it always is good as a conversation starter for those open to seeing another side.

D R
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Incredibly creative and beautiful, congrats! Sadly the video doesn’t want to play…it just continually buffered for me.

D R
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Update: got the video to work, thanks so much for taking the time to photograph and video the process for us untalented one’s. Love it.

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Nothanks L. Walk
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My compliments on pulling this off.... if I tried this, I'm 90% sure it would look like a pikey's back garden, minus the washingmachine and car wreck.

GoddessOdd
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a great tree. I am struggling with my tree... it's falling apart, but I hate to put it in the landfill and get a new one. Maybe I can do something like this. As long as I can hang all my treasured ornaments, I'll be happy.

Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Each section is an individual snowflake. I'll just take off the ornaments and garland and store the sections with the rest of the Christmas stuff lol

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oddkiddo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or "How to make christmas even less sustainable". But I guess it'll make for a interesting story 40 years from now when someone finds a reflective foam christmas tree inside a whale..

Alex Bailey
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How is this less sustainable than any normal, boring and ordinary fake Christmas tree? Or do you prefer the practice of trees grown specifically and chopped down just to grace your living room? Christmas tree farms require certain resources for the trees to grow until they reach the best height to cut them down. For trees species that don’t originally grow in a certain region this means using dirt, water, herbicides, pesticide and fungicides, all substances that can potentially damage the environment. If the Christmas trees are not grown on specialized farms, uncontrolled forest exploitation can create serious environmental imbalances, climate changes, the development of natural disasters such as landslides or floods, or endanger animals that have forests of conifers as their natural habitat. Not sure this is really that bad as the product exists to go under flooring anyway. What do you think happens when people rip up and replace floors? Humans are dreadful polluters.

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Kanga9ine
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So what kind of cookies does one leave equal to this show stopper. Santa must love the creative side of the tree. Christmas is from the heart. Tradition must get a tweak every so often. Evolution. Or amendments added to The Christmas Tradition. Flexibility of the mind. Plus it always is good as a conversation starter for those open to seeing another side.

D R
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Incredibly creative and beautiful, congrats! Sadly the video doesn’t want to play…it just continually buffered for me.

D R
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Update: got the video to work, thanks so much for taking the time to photograph and video the process for us untalented one’s. Love it.

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Nothanks L. Walk
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My compliments on pulling this off.... if I tried this, I'm 90% sure it would look like a pikey's back garden, minus the washingmachine and car wreck.

GoddessOdd
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a great tree. I am struggling with my tree... it's falling apart, but I hate to put it in the landfill and get a new one. Maybe I can do something like this. As long as I can hang all my treasured ornaments, I'll be happy.

Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Each section is an individual snowflake. I'll just take off the ornaments and garland and store the sections with the rest of the Christmas stuff lol

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oddkiddo
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or "How to make christmas even less sustainable". But I guess it'll make for a interesting story 40 years from now when someone finds a reflective foam christmas tree inside a whale..

Alex Bailey
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How is this less sustainable than any normal, boring and ordinary fake Christmas tree? Or do you prefer the practice of trees grown specifically and chopped down just to grace your living room? Christmas tree farms require certain resources for the trees to grow until they reach the best height to cut them down. For trees species that don’t originally grow in a certain region this means using dirt, water, herbicides, pesticide and fungicides, all substances that can potentially damage the environment. If the Christmas trees are not grown on specialized farms, uncontrolled forest exploitation can create serious environmental imbalances, climate changes, the development of natural disasters such as landslides or floods, or endanger animals that have forests of conifers as their natural habitat. Not sure this is really that bad as the product exists to go under flooring anyway. What do you think happens when people rip up and replace floors? Humans are dreadful polluters.

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