Tomato, To-mah-to Tree

I'm still stuck on our wonderfully easy tomato cage trees. This time I made one that would be great for a front yard. Everything about this tree is made for the exterior; the Deco Mesh is plastic and foil so it's great for outdoors, the ornaments and poinsettias are plastic, and I made sure to add interior/exterior red Christmas lights in the center. I know it might be a little early to be thinking about getting your lawn ready for the holidays, but I couldn't help it, I'm so excited about how nicely these tomato cage trees are turning out. I hope you're enjoying the ideas as much as I am enjoying making them. Next week I'll try to do something for Autumn rather than jumping ahead to Christmas again.

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Puna @ Enchanted Lake

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Fall Tomato Tree

I always think it's really cool when people get creative and re-purpose items for things that I would never have thought of doing. Case in point, one of our new holiday products. We are now carrying tomato cages in our stores but we're not using them to corral tomato vines. Instead we are throwing our craftiness at them and decorating them with everything and anything we can think of.

Here's a picture of one of our newest creations, the fall tomato tree. For this project, we used the metal tomato cage you see on the right of the page and wired some orange Christmas lights on to it. We then wrapped the cage in Deco Paper Mesh and added some fall garlands and picks to dress it up. Finally, as a topper, we stuck a straw wreath with a few more picks and some ribbon to the cage.

Tomato cages make great decorations, as you can see, and that's why I think I'm going to be doing quite a bit more of them as we get further into the holiday season.

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Puna @ Enchanted Lake

P.S. There's another blog post today for a Crankin' Out Crafts Halloween project, but you have to scroll down more to see it.