My neighbor has two pine trees in her yard. Lucky me. I gathered about 30 that looked nice and carried them home. She loves me and doesn’t mind if I take some of her pine cones. It’s just like me to forget to take a before picture, but you all know what pine cones look like, right? They’re brown.
Pine cones in the Yard.
In my studio, I dug out my paints and a brush. I put newspaper down to save the desk top and painted them all pretty like. I saw this idea, originally, on Pinterest and they were spray painted shiny red and green. Since that’s not really my style, I chose white with a hint of yellow ochre in it.
Titanium White and Yellow Ochre
They dried overnight. Finding some white braid trim in my sewing stash, I measured the amount that I wanted to make the swag drape twice.
Painted and ready to string.
Using my hot glue gun, I attached them to the braid. Watch out for those burned fingers. 😛 I spaced the cones about four inches apart along the braid. When I got to the end, I had four pine cones left over. With three of them, I made a group hanging for the center of the swag. I kept one to just place on the mantel by itself.
Completed Pine Cone Swag.
I like how it looks. Since I don’t do a lot of decorating for each different holiday, I made this to enjoy for Fall through Winter.
My newly decorated fireplace.
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