Center Piece for Upscale Creepiness

We recently got the chance to decorate a display window at Trevi in Lake Elsinore as a promotion for Royal Bash. The general Idea being halloween themed weddings and quinceaneras. We chose black red and silver, a la True Blood,  to do an elegant but creepy display.

The central piece for the display was a table center piece (or could be used as part of a larger dessert/candy bar) a cookie or ornament tree.
Start with a tree branch size of your choice, just make sure its sturdy enough to support hanging ornaments, luckily we found ours when we went camping a few months ago and it's been sitting in our studio (read garage) ever since.

Supplies :

• Tree Branch (size optional)
• Plastic flower pot (size of pot should correlate to size of branch i.e. a small branch needs a smaller pot, a larger branch needs a larger pot. For this project we used)
• Spray paint in colors of your choice (for this project we chose shiny black, and hammered silver)
• Quickrete (plaster of paris will work, but it's expensive. 60 pound bags of Quickrete sell at Lowe's for $3.00, more or less.)
• Water
• Piece of cardboard or a plastic water dish for pots in correspondung size (it needs to fit inside the pot but not fall all the way to the bottom)
• Dried moss (sold at any craft store.)
• Ribbon  (your color of choice.)
• Misc. decorations for front of pot

Step 1
Spray branch and flower pot color of your choice

Step 2
Stand branch up in flower pot (rest branch against a wall to keep from falling) and pour dry Quickrete mix into pot and around branch (you only need about 4-5 inches to get the desired strength)

Step 3
Pour water to cover quickrete, watch to see if you need more water. Let set over night

Step 4
Add cardboard to inside of pot about three to four inches below rim.



Step 5
Add moss to cover cardboard

Step 6
Glue ribbons and decorations to front of pot. Voila!

For the display window we made fake cookies and hung them off the branches of the tree. The tree can either be used as a centerpiece for a table where the cookies are edible favors, or as a part of a larger dessert bar.

Hope you enjoyed this project. Check back here or Lynes' blog often for more fun ideas.

Always,

- Fleur