Tomato Cage Christmas “Tree”

Have you done any painting lately? Links open @ 6 pm PST for

Passion for Paint Party!

Please stop by and share your projects!

This was ridiculously easy. I’m not kidding.

My girlfriend did one a few years ago and I’d been wanting to try it, but not enough to go out and buy a tomato cage.

Then I saw this hanging out in Mom’s garage.

Without tomatoes.

Nothing is sacred around Christmas.

Wait a minute . . . let me rephrase that . . .

I’ll use anything to decorate at Christmastime!

I secured the top with some wire.

I wanted some regular cheap garland.

Not ‘tinsel-like’ garland. But Walmart was all out.

Imagine that! Walmart - out of garland! Well, the $2 variety, anyway.

The tinsel stuff actually worked better because it wrapped so easily and didn’t need to be shaped.

Until I got to here . . .

Whoops!

I wanted to snip those bottom two rings.

Mom said no.

Uh, I’m 53, remember Mom? I’m a big girl now, and I want to snip those rings off.

Just go get some more @ Walmart.

No! I don’t wanna!

(I may be middle-aged, but I can revert to a whiny 5 year old in a red hot minute.)

Let me try something else. . .

Nope. Won’t fit.

She tells me to go check in the garage. Surely we have some more garland.

I think this is a fool’s errand because I hate tinsel (which she loves) and I’ve thrown out most of her decorations that I don’t like.

Hey! I’m the one who puts them up at her house every year. Surely, there isn’t any tinsel-like garland . . .

Somehow this survived my dowdy-decoration-dumping.

I know . . . I was going to make it shorter and now I actually made the dang thing taller! But it was windy outside and it needed a bit of a base.

The two garlands didn’t match, but were close enough.

Threw some lights on and that was that!

Not bad, huh?

But much prettier at night . . .

Which setting are you supposed to have the camera on for nighttime again?

Oh well, you get the idea. . . it’s a Tomato Cage Tree.