Thanks to everyone for sharing the love about the blogs new look!

Spencer is the mastermind behind it all. I get to sit back in awe and watch him work his magic and I am thrilled with everything he has created!

Moving on.

The other day I shared a couple of quick little hacks I borrowed from my HGTV magazine. I have one more that I would like to share and it is soooooo cool, soooooo simple and soooooo trendy!

Here is the HGTV magazine I referenced before. And here is the Pier 1 page.

Scroll back up and look a little closer at the base of the Christmas Tree. See the basket? A basket instead of a traditional tree shirt? Hmmmm.

I have a cute tree skirt we have used for years, but I figured, lets try something new this year.

First I roughly measured the width of my tree stand and how far it was from the floor to the lowest branch on the tree.

I needed at least a 17 inch wide basket that was a minimum of 7 inches deep.

I grabbed my 60% off coupon from JoAnn’s and headed into town.

They had a large selection to choose from and after a few minutes I found the perfect basket to use and it was about $9. If my idea failed, no one would go hungry around here. 🙂

I only needed three simple tools to get started.

• Scissors
• Fishing Line
• Needle

Two inches of the center of the bottom of the basket needed to be removed. I made some big looping stitches from about 2 inches out from the center incase the basket were to unravel. I also cut from the top edge of the basket to the bottom center.

Since the basket was so tightly woven, I cut out a pie sliced shape so I could get it around the base of the tree.

Then it was just a matter of slipping the basket under the tree.

A little side by side before and after:

What do you think? Team tree skirt or Team tree basket?

See you Friday,

Wendy