Vintage Flower Frog Christmas Tree
Repurpose vintage flower frogs into a charming christmas tree stack with these simple ideas.
Sometimes the best Christmas decorations are the things we have in our house all year long…with a little something special added! Styling your Christmas home with fun collections you’ve hunted down through the years is a great way to enjoy, and remember, your vintage hunting adventures! I’ve been hoarding collecting flower frogs for awhile and have added quite a few more since my old store partner and I used to see who had the most { “Flower Frogs”}. Rather than just enjoying them for gardening season or to prop up the occasional vintage postcard, today I’ll show you how to repurpose them into a Flower Frog Christmas Tree.
Flower Frog Christmas Tree
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Stack Your Flower Frogs
Don’t you love when a repurpose project is simply stacking one thing on top of the other? No gluing, nailing, or sawing is required for this simple decoration. It’s kind of like those baby stacking cups…just put one on top of the other!
Add Mini Christmas Bulbs and Baubles
Then you add some mini vintage Shiny Brite bulbs, hanging them from their little hangers, or use an ornament hanger, depending on the flower frog style, and you’ve got instant charm!
I thought I was being really original with this idea, but wouldn’t you know ; I searched Pinterest and someone else had come up with this idea, too! Pretty hard to come up with something original in this Pinterest world we live in, right?
But their version didn’t have the vintage corsages that I had gotten from a relative who saved EVERYTHING:) Who saves every corsage? Certainly not me! But luckily, she did! These pretty vintage corsages with their plastic foliage are like Shiny Brite ornaments on steroids! And they were the perfect addition to my Flower Frog Christmas Tree!
Tacky old corsages, you’ve never looked better!
Yep…I now have enough flower frogs for 2 Flower Frog Christmas Trees (plus maybe one oval and one square one…and a couple glass ones;) And they look perfect on one of my other vintage collections: footed cake plates! Actually, these new galvanized ones with the scalloped edges look cute mixed in with the old! (get similar ones HERE)
Guess it’s time for an all-out “O Tannenbaum” vignette! Which meant I needed to fill those little clips in my Printer’s box display {“Repurposing a Vintage Printer’s Box”}. And since I was whipping up some cute tree printables for myself, I figured I’d better just turn them into a PDF, in case you would like to use them, too!
As I was cutting them up, I realized they’d make a cute holiday bookmark! Bonus stocking stuffer or teacher gift, friends;)
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These cute little tree printables would be perfect for gift tags or placecards, or to string up as bunting, too!
I always like to add some new to my vintage, so some newer bottle brush trees and a wax candle tree got added to the forest. I even found a mini plastic tree in my decorations, that rounded out the “O Tannenbaum” vignette!
This fun little wonky collection is the perfect happy greeting when we enter our house, and I love to see it as I’m washing dishes at the kitchen sink, too!
Are you still playing around with your Christmas decorating? I really think it’s more about the creative process than having everything done quickly. So…I’m still playing… and probably will be right up till Christmas;)
Shop to create the look: Click on pics for more info:
Do you use your everyday collections in a special way at Christmas? Do the holidays give you even more reason to enjoy all those vintage finds? Have I given you an even better reason to hunt down some flower frogs? Hope you enjoyed this little “O Tannenbaum” vignette and the inspiration to make a Flower Frog Christmas Tree!
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SO GOOD!!! Girl…you have SO MANY flower frogs!!! I Love this idea…I think it’s pretty original even though you saw someone else with a similar idea. You have created such a pretty display with these ‘trees’ and I think they are just fantastic for Christmas! Thanks so much for sharing at Home Imagined today!
Never met a flower frog I didn’t love:) Fun to use them for a different season!
LOVE these flower frog Christmas trees!!!!! I have several, but quit buying them, but I may have to start again, in order to make at least one of these trees!!!!!
Keep creating!
Terry
They are fun to use for Christmas, instead of just during gardening season:)
You have cool stuff and this idea is sweet. Thank you. Happy Holidays, too.
Thanks, Anne!
Lora, I love your repurposed trees and that vignette with the shadowbox in the background is perfection! Thanks for sharing at Vintage Charm–pinned!
Thanks, Cecilia! Yes, my “Always a good time for junk” art is one of my favorites!
Hi Lora,
Thank you for sharing such a wonderful way to use flower frogs. I am a collector too but wouldn’t have thought to create this beautiful display. I looked around at some of your other seasonal posts such as the spool wreath and vintage sleds and I wondered if you were my long-lost sister. 🙂 Thanks again for sharing!
Glad to have found a creative, kindred spirit, Janie! Enjoy poking around, and good luck with your flower frog tree!
You have a collection of flower frogs too! Gosh, I’d love to have a tour of your garage. The flower frog Christmas trees are amazing and decorating them with vintage shiny brites and corsages couldn’t be more perfect! I wore some of those corsages back in the ’70’s. Lora, your vignette is gorgeous and your photography equally stunning. Pinned 🙂
Thanks for your sweet compliments, Marie!Photography is definitely one of those skills that constantly challenges me! As you know it’s one thing to come up with a creative idea, it’s another to actually get good pictures of it! And yes, my collections are kind of never-ending and always increasing now that I’m not selling anymore! Storage is always a challenge in my old house:(
What a beautiful display you created! I love your flower frog trees and your aunt’s corsages look perfect on it.
It’s quite the eclectic display, Paula, but kinda fun! I thought those corsages were so gaudy when I first got them, but I like them now!
Yes i am playing and just like you i just had to move and redo a few things i was tired of. If you don’t like what you have you certainly wouldn’t want to add to the mess, lol! Now you have given me more to do but i don’t mind, i can say i am so very glad to have found you, you are so helpful to this old brain of mine, thanks.
Love to hear from you, Marlene! And I’m glad you found your way here, too! Have fun decorating!