Saturday, January 22, 2011

Trees for sale

Many of my friends advised me that I should maybe try to sell my trees - turn my hobby into a small business. Although I think this is far from a business and also the prices I will put for the trees are not going to cover even half of the work embedded in these trees (most of them take hours or even days to complete) I still think that I should try it. Prices that I will put next to each tree are in Canadian dollars and they don't include shipping. Please e-mail me what kind of trees would you like and also how many and I will send you the options for shipping. Also be aware that it will take me a couple of days to build the trees for you as I don't have a stock. Also the trees may vary from the pictures because I don't have like a template to use for each one. The good part is that each tree I make is better than my previous one as I become more experienced in making them.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Acacia - $39

This was the second tree I made (the first one I made I gave to my mother-in-law - I'm a perfect wife as you can tell). It's 26 cm tall and it's made of green beads (for leafs) and red beads (for fruits). I spend about 10 hours putting it together.

Materials:
- red beads
- green beads
- floral tape
- bare wire calibre 28
- glue sticks
- burnt umber acrylic paint
- glass pot
- white mudding
- glue gun




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Willow tree - $129

This is my preferred tree but it took me four days to make the branches and another one week to put the 200 branches together and give them a natural shape. The willow is 29 cm tall.
It's the tree I'm most proud of (so far).
Materials:
- green beads
- floral tape
- bare wire calibre 28
- glue sticks
- burnt umber acrylic paint
- ceramic pot
- white mudding
- glue gun

Apple tree - $25

The apple tree is 15 cm tall.

Materials:
- transparent beads
- floral tape
- bare wire calibre 28
- burnt umber acrylic paint
- glass pot
- white mudding
- pebbles




Peach tree - $59

I made many peach trees and I gave most of them away as gifts. It si 7 cm high and 25 cm wide.

Materials:
- pink beads
- white beads
- black beads
- golden beads
- floral tape
- bare wire calibre 28
- glue sticks
- burnt umber acrylic paint
- glass pot
- white mudding
- glue gun


 

Pine tree - $129


This was also very hard to build. There are thousands of beads in the leafs and it took me days to put them together.
Height - 28 cm

Materials:
- green beads
- floral tape
- bare wire calibre 28
- glue sticks
- burnt umber acrylic paint
- glass pot
- white mudding
- glue gun

Frozen tree - $49


Height: 28 cm

I have a few frozen trees already made so for a small quantity I can ship them immediately.

Materials:
- transparent beads
- floral tape
- bare wire calibre 28
- glue sticks
- burnt umber acrylic paint
- glass pot
- white mudding
- glue gun