Earlier this week I mentioned my Ruby Trees (click here for the full story). In short, I make a new themed Christmas tree every year in honor of my grandmother, Ruby. This year was no different and I had to make a new themed tree. With the newest member of our family (Tomlin) as my inspiration, I’m excited to share with you our Steeler tree.
I purchased a black and yellow tree and put black and yellow glass balls and football ornaments on the branches.
For the tree topper, I made a Lombardi Trophy. For those of your who don’t know, this is the trophy won at the Super Bowl, named after a former Green Bay Packers coach. And yes, the Steelers have 6 of these silver beauties :-) Anyways, I wrapped some silver ribbon around a styrofoam cone and glued a silver ornament on top. Ta da! Lombardi Trophy :-)
For the tree skirt I used a couple of our Terrible Towels.
We put the tree in Tomlin’s room and she loves it :-)
What do you think? This has got to be one of our favorite Ruby Trees :-)
8 comments:
I love this! What a fun little tree. I hope your holiday is just wonderful!
This looks great - you did such a good job on the topper! :) I have friends who are crazy Steeler fans and they have a full-size Steeler tree in their house! You would love it :)
It's a my size tree for Tomlin!!! :) My favorite has got to be the creativity of the tree topper! It looks great!
It looks great, Darby! I guess it was too dark at the party, I didn't notice that the tree itself is black and yellow! Where'd you find that? and all the Steelers ornaments? very creative tree topper!
my co-workers son would LOVE that tree since he is a huge Steelers fan. and i love the lombardi trophy you made so creative darby!
How fun! Love your steelers inspired tree!
I LOVE this! The Ruby trees and Tomlin's tree - so adorable! I can't even believe you got all of that stuff together so quickly and on top of all the other Christmas-y stuff - again, I'm very impressed with you and your celebrations and crafty stuff! : )
-Mel the Crafty Scientist
this is SO fun I'd love you to add this to my What We Wore and Made link party over at http://raegunwear.blogspot.com
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