DIY Winter Decor From Items Found Around The House

So it's been a while since my last blog and I have been slowing taking down all of the Christmas decor in the house.  I love my Christmas decor, it is so full of memories.  But that is for another day.  Today I wanted to share what I made from things around the house for my table centerpiece.  Here is a photo of my table.

Winter centerpiece on my table.

What I would like to show you today is how easy it is to make the bird display in the center of the table.  

Here is what it looks like when it is done. 

This is so easy it will shock you!

Here is what you need and hopefully you will have most of it around the house. 

Cake stand

Large vase

Make sure when turned upside down the top of the vase can rest safely on the cake stand.

A couple of sticks or twigs from the yard and a twist tie.

birds

I used 3 birds in my arrangement.

fake snow

This is what the bag looks like but any fake snow will do,  I found this at Lowes in the holiday section.

Ok I had to buy the birds and the snow but since it is post Christmas I got them for super cheap the snow was $1.74 and the birds (6 of them) $1.50.  So I spent a total of $2.24 for my center piece. Not bad!

This is so easy that anyone can do it.  The kids can help too.

Step one clean your glassware. 

Step two fill your vase with snow. 

I filled mine half way but you can add as much as you would like. 

Next

Take you sticks and twist tie them together in an X at the bottom.  

This will help them from falling all over the place in the vase.  

This step is completely optional but I found it helped to keep my sticks from clumping together.

My birds came with clips so it was very easy to attach to the sticks.

If yours did not come with clips you will need to hot glue the birds to the sticks.

Clip the bird on the tops of the twigs.

Arrange to your liking.

I forgot to take a photo of the birds on the sticks. oops.

Place the sticks into the vase like this. 

With the bottom of the sticks facing up.

Gently push your sticks and birds into the snow.  You might need to dig in the snow a bit to do this.

I accidentally broke one of my sticks when doing this.

Now take the cake stand and place it on the top of the vase like this.

  

Hold your cake plate and vase together and carefully turn over.  Be careful not to let them come apart or your snow will fall out and you will have a giant snowy mess.  Also it might be heavy, mine is!

It took me a few times of going back and fourth to get it just right.

But here is how mine ended up.

I just love it.  I am thinking I might make a spring one with grass and colorful birds and maybe a nest.  That would be so cute!  

I placed it on the table and added a few things I had around the house. 

Thanks for reading and as always

have a wonderful day full of life and color!