Make two decorations out of found wood
If you are going for a walk in the woods or on the beach, you can sometimes find great pieces of wood there. With this found wood you can make nice decorations that bring some nature into the house.
Take a walk through the forest or across the beach with your eyes open; You will be amazed at what great found wood is there. Collect this and use it to make nice decorations for your apartment. That wood For the suggestions it should be at least 10 cm thick and it should have an elongated shape.
Decorations for the table
A Forstner drill attachment is a round attachment for the drill, it looks like a small bowl, but has teeth at the front. You put it on the drill and hold it vertically on the wood. The teeth of the drill then cut out a circular piece of wood; So you have a round hole in the wood. Drill too deep, pierce the wood. The diameter of the attachment should be slightly larger than your candle jar, otherwise it will not fit in the hole.
- Draw on the wood where you want the table candles and tealight glasses to sit.
- Take the Forstner drill bit and drill the holes you have drawn. Make sure, however, that they also have the correct diameter.
- Trickle something wax into the smaller holes and place the table candles in the wax that is still liquid.
- You put the tealight holder in the larger holes. You can either place tea lights in the glasses or fill the glasses with water and arrange flowers as decorations in them.
- To make the decoration more colorful, you can put a few drops of hot glue on free areas and place moss or artificial flowers on them.
- If the decoration is to be Christmassy, tie a few small fir branches and a pine cone in the middle with wire and glue them, for example, to free wooden surfaces. Use two table candles and two tea lights for lighting and you have a great table decoration.
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The wood that you use for this decoration should be larger than the vase so that you can decorate the wood as well. If you have a piece of wood that is 50 cm long, the vase should not be longer than 30 cm. Depending on the size and width of the wood, you can also use several bottles.
- Spray the bottle vases with transparent varnish and let them dry. You do this so that the bottle is colored, but you can also leave it clear or buy a colored one straight away.
- Now use the drill to drill two small holes in the wood. They just need to be big enough to allow you to stick the wire through. Make sure to drill the holes so that the vase can be attached to the center of the wood and you still have space above and below to attach decorative pieces.
- Wrap the wire around the bottle vase and place it between the two holes. Slide the ends of the wire through the holes and knot the ends on the back of the wood.
- Make a small loop at the wire knot on the back of the wood, then you can hang your found wood on a nail on the wall.
- Here, too, you can still decorate the wood; wrap gold wire around the wood and tuck small willow branches under the gold wire, for example at Easter.
- The end product is a vase that can be attached to a beautiful piece of wood on the wall. If the wood and the vase are big enough, you can even store your Easter branches there and hang them with colored eggs.
At the Handcraft For decorations made from found wood, you should make sure that the wood has not yet rotted and is free of vermin. Wood works over time, of course it may be that your decorations no longer look so great after a certain time, but some woods become more and more beautiful with age.
