Christmas Tree Décor 2012 in Silver Tone

Still from the IPBI Christmas demo, silver seems to be the favorite theme for this year’s Christmas, since our next Christmas tree idea which is from Mrs. Ling Ling also supports this color. The structure of the tree’s approximately 1.2 meter tall and adorned with artificial silver poinsettia flowers.

Tadaa!!! The Christmas tree itself was assembled together from assorted small sized salix twigs to form a minimalist tree and spray painted in black afterwards.

Side view of the Christmas tree, you can see details of white leaves hanging on the sides.

Details of the silver poinsettias

The leaves and the peonies in the middle

Tiny pearls in silver bullion wire looped all around the tree

And a few mini flower pom-pom hanging on the bottom

Note:

The images were taken at the IPBI DPC Bandung's Monthly Gathering on Nov 22nd, 2012.

The flowers designer is Mrs. Ling Ling

X'mas Hall Decoration part 1 : Wooden Christmas Tree Decor

Now...after reading previous post about the outdoor christmas decor, you must be wandering about indoor decor. Well, wait no more cause we'll be posting a 3 part tutorial on it !! Yaaayyy!!

The setting is inside the multi-function hall of St.Peter's Cathedral. As you can see from the picture above, the hall had a mini stage at the corner, a wooden christmas tree decor, a floral centerpiece in the middle front taken from the previous day's wedding and which not seen in the picture here is a big wreath hanging on the back wall of the hall. That's the reason for the 3-part posts since we'll show you tutorials for all of them! And no, there's no 'fripperies' like paper garland hanging from wall to wall since it's just take too much time (and money) to make and clean them afterwards...

Okay, so back to the part 1 now, we'll be doing the wooden christmas tree decor first. The wooden tree here was lent by Mrs. Mie Man ( Thank you!!) so if you're making it from scratch it will be the hardest and most labourious part. From the picture, you can see that the tree itself actually consists of 3 parts. Each part was made from 2 pieces of plywood and shaped like half pine tree. They were painted light green. Each plywood piece is approx 2 meter tall and the radius around 80 centimeter. Then the two pieces were put together by using two butterfly hinges so the angle of the parts can be adjusted.

After that, prepare a simple square stage that measure around 2 x 2 meters and 40 centimeters in height. Cover the stage with green coloured satin fabric. Next part is assembling the 3 parts together to form a round tree. After that, the flower arrangements are put between the plywood pieces. The flower arrangements for this stage are using red gerberas and white lilies, asters and gladiol.

Well, I hope this will inspire you to do something different for your christmas party decoration, a bit labourious and of course more pricey but the end result is really stunning, right? We'll see you again on part 2 of the tutorial!!!!

Christmas 2011: Huge X'mas Tree at St.Peter's Cathedral

As I promised you all before, here it is the looks of the iron christmas tree after decorated...

The tree are first covered in lots of outdoor digital printing in pine leaves pattern (detail no 1). This creates the illusion of a real huge pine tree. On top of the printing, they lay white styrofoam board with christmas motifs carved on it (detail no 3), such as bells, snow flakes, reindeer,etc. Cable lamps are then attached on the styrofoam's sides (detail no 4). Next are the gold and silver balls made from spray painted cheap plastic soccer ball (detail no 2) and some red stars made of styrofoam.

Well....I know styrofoam is not environmentally friendly, however it's easily carved into beautiful motif like this one...

After dark, the lights are on!!!!!

Oh Christmas Tree....Oh Christmas Tree....

Well, judging from the title of course it's a chistmas tree, but what kind of christmas tree ?

Yep, you got it!! It's a very huge steel iron christmas tree frame in front of St. Peter's cathedral a few days ago. I forgot to take pictures before they were installed, but the frames are knock down. When installed, they measured approx 4 meter wide and 10 meter tall. On close up they look strong, however, a heavy wind sometimes moved them abit.

Right now the frames have been decorated, so wait for my next entry......