Cone shaped trees....

I have a new idea in my head. It may be a complete disaster but I'm going to try it. I had to come up with this idea for making trees because I'm running out of the sizes needed and enough glass to continue to make my "stacked" trees. The idea is to lay sea glass out on plastic wrap on top of this shape that I cut out of a piece of paper. Once I have all the pieces laid out I will cover it completely with white glue and let it dry. While it's still a little flexible I fold it and place it over a cardboard cone shape to give it stability while drying. I add another coating of white glue to make it firmer and multiple layers of glue on the seam to seal it.

The thing I've come up with so far is that I can't overlap the glass because it'll just wreck the whole design when I try to wrap it into a cone shape. I'm going to lie one flat layer down side by side and then after I get it in a cone shape maybe I'll apply more layers. I'm not sure yet we'll see how it goes. 

​I'm enjoying this process - it's like working on a jigsaw puzzle.

​I'm pretty happy with these trees although I do refer to them as "Charlie Brown trees" because they're a little bit wonky,  (just the maker my husband says in the background as I'm typing this) especially the ones in the top picture as they were my first attempts. They are fun and quite different from the ones I was making previously. They take a lot less time and glass and still look really pretty with lights inside. 

You can get quite a different result depending what type of light is inside. In the picture above the "green tree" has mini green lights inside while the 2 beside it have LED tea lights.

The tree shown in the pictures below are the same trees but the left picture shows them with an LED tea light inside of it. The right has mini lights (some call them twinkle lights or fairy lights).

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