DIY: Christmas in July Driftwood Tree

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While you’re out at the beach this summer, why not collect pieces of driftwood to make your own Christmas Tree!  I will be attempting this (on a smaller scale) with tree branches since the woods are full of them!

Materials

thick pieces of driftwood in various lengths for example 4″ to 4′

a central support rod like rebar, shower curtain

a strong base to hold up the central support rod like a small branch stump

a drill with a bit that’s a little larger than the diameter of the central support rod

How to Make a Driftwood Christmas Tree:

The concept for this type of tree is pretty simple:

Arrange your driftwood from longest to shortest having enough pieces to reach your desired height.

Drill holes in the mid-point of each piece of driftwood, making sure the holes are large enough for your center rod to go through.

Prepare the central support rod by drilling an appropriately sized hole in the small branch stump and then inserting the rod inside.

Starting with your longest, spear each piece of driftwood until you are done. And voila, you have a tree! You can even add a starfish to the top and some twinkle lights!

SOURCE: SustainMyCraftHabit.com

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142 thoughts on “DIY: Christmas in July Driftwood Tree”

    1. Morning, Pat! Figured that’s what happened….still barely light here. I stood out there watching the west end of the house to see where GT comes from. No sign of him….turn around and there he is – snuck up on me from the east….hmmm…..he’s good!

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  7. hubby says we are under an orange alert again from the canadian smoke. this is freaking nuts! at some point someone has to force those bozos to PUT THE DAMN FIRES OUT!
    this is crazy

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  9. imagine if rhonda were to quit. throw his support behind Trump. fix the crap in Florida. stay in his lane. he might be unstoppable in 2028.
    but he got ahead of his skis. now he may never make it to the national stage.

    Citizen 817
    Citizen 817
    July 17, 2023 12:24 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    6h
    The DeSanctimonious SuperPAC, “Always Back Down,” should focus more on Florida Property & Auto Insurance, which has zoomed to “highest in the Nation, by far,” instead of spending money on a “campaign” that is going nowhere. Come home Ron, where you belong!

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    1. “The Turning Points Action conference saw about 6,000 attendees for Donald Trump’s keynote speech this weekend at the Palm Beach County Convention Center.

      As expected at the MAGA event, Trump dominated in the straw poll of attendees conducted over the course of the event, with Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis coming in third, not second, as the choice for nominee. DeSantis was not first place even on the question of who would be the nominee if not Trump – instead the overwhelming selection was businessman and primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.”

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          1. i read at M’s…
            we HAVE to vet candidates better. so he was for all the masks and vax…he’s a soros puppet…and thinks President Trump was wrong for opposing the steal?
            no brainer…not my candidate for ANY POSITION

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              1. i try to read there once a day so sometimes I miss stuff. but when you let me know–like malone’s cartoons and stuff…i do go and read again. I appreciate the head’s up!

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    2. wow…who are the 4%? THEY’RE the ones ultra maggot out to send to fight over there.

      btw, Valerie shared a couple of your links and posts at wolf’s!

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      1. Good! The wider dissemination, the better, as far as I’m concerned. A H/T would be nice but I’m not going to quibble over it – the info is what is important and getting it shared.

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  11. this isn’t passing the sniff test. woman driving alone at night see a toddler alone on the side of the road and stops to rescue it. then she gets kidnapped. she “fights” for her life, gets home somehow (there’s discrepancies about how) and the cops are giving her some time to rest at home before they interview her??? what about the toddler? no one’s worried about the child? there’s possibly an endangered child out there and they’re giving her time to rest? not buying this story at all

    https://nypost.com/2023/07/16/boyfriend-of-alabama-woman-who-vanished-on-highway-says-she-was-kidnapped-and-fought-for-her-life/

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  13. Soldier to @SecDef: “My mom died; I need to travel to her funeral.”@SecDef to soldier: “You’ll be charged for leave time and must pay your own travel.”

    Soldier to @SecDef: “I want an abortion.”@SecDef to soldier: “Here’s three weeks of paid leave and I’ll pay your travel.” pic.twitter.com/LsKFN8SJjk

    — Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) July 17, 2023

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  16. “Pharmaceutical firm tied to 2024 candidate Ramaswamy tangled in lawsuits on COVID vax technology–Genevant Sciences, which has sued Pfizer and Moderna, is mostly owned by Roivant Sciences, founded by Vivek Ramaswamy.”

    EXCERPT: “Apharmaceutical company tied to 2024 GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is involved in lawsuits over COVID-19 mRNA vaccine technology. Genevant Sciences, a portfolio company of Roivant Sciences, is suing Moderna and Pfizer over patented COVID vaccine technology while also being sued by another biotech company linked with Pfizer’s vaccine.

    Ramaswamy founded Roivant Sciences, and was CEO of the biotech research company from 2014 until 2021. He continued as its board chairman until February of this year before he stepped down. He is not involved in the lawsuit.

    Genevant Sciences, along with partner Arbutus Biopharma Corporation, sued Moderna in February 2022 over alleged patent infringement, followed by a lawsuit against Pfizer and BioNTech in April this year. MRNA is similar to RNA, short for Ribonucleic acid, which is present in all living cells and that has structural similarities to DNA.

    The lawsuit against Moderna alleges that the pharmaceutical and biotech company infringed on an Arbutus patent for a lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery platform for the vaccine, which was necessary “to safeguard the mRNA and deliver it into cells.” The plaintiffs allege that the infringement occurred when Moderna didn’t request a license to use the LNP patents for COVID.

    Genevant licenses Arbutus’ LNP technology–

    Arbutus and Genevant “do not seek an injunction or otherwise to impede the sale, manufacture or distribution” of the vaccine, according to a press release. Instead, the companies “seek only fair compensation for the use of patented technology they developed with great effort and at great expense, without which Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine would not have been successful.”

    In March this year, a federal court judge declined to partially dismiss the case against Moderna, allowing it to continue.”

    https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/pharmaceutical-company-tied-ramaswamy-suing-facing-lawsuits-over-covid-19

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  17. EXCERPT: “The World Health Organization, along with Bill Gates and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are pushing for vaccine patches to be mailed directly to people’s homes. The rulers will stop at nothing to ensure as many humans as possible are injected with mRNA technology and use Big Pharma and its drugs.

    None of this is about health, and it never has been. Since COVID-19 was a scam and a hoax of epic proportions, there was never a need for a “vaccine” and there’s enough evidence that it isn’t safe that we should have our eyes fully opened by now. However, the ruling class refuses to give up. Gates is interested in just two things: making money and genocide (depopulation). And his new Big Pharma proposal for microneedle peel-and-stick vaccines through the mail will advance that agenda by leaps and bounds if enough people end up complying with it.”

    https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/rulers-push-for-mrna-vaccine-patches-to-be-mailed-directly-to-homes

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      1. Um…there were a lot of people analyzing some of the actual vials of vaccine – it’s just that it is always AFTER the fact, after it’s already been used to commit genocide! I’m sure someone like Steve Kersch or one of those doctors is, or already has, evaluated them.

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      1. “Boss, I’m tired!” Helps to have seen the clarity of the young people at Turning Point over the weekend! There is Hope

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  19. ENTIRE ARTICLE @ endtimeheadlines.org:

    (OPINION) The upcoming “Barbie” film ignores its key demographic in favor of catering to “a small percentage of the population,” a faith-based film review site claimed.

    “Warning: Don’t take your daughter to Barbie,” Movieguide, a Christian movie review site warned ahead of the film’s release July 21. The review criticized the film about the iconic doll of abandoning its core audience of families and little girls to instead focus on LGBTQ stories.

    “The new BARBIE movie forgets its core audience of families and children while catering to nostalgic adults and pushing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender character stories. Furthermore, the movie was poorly made with multiple premises, losing even the most die-hard fans,” the scathing staff review-penned piece began.

    “They had a built-in market and audience for this franchise that they completely ignored,” the story continued. “Millions of families would have turned out to the theaters and purchased tickets, but instead, Mattel chose to cater to a small percentage of the population who has proven over and over to abandon the box office.”

    However actress Margot Robbie defended the film in a recent interview, saying it was “literally crafted to be for everyone.” “This is such a thing people say when they do press for a movie. They’re like, ‘It’s for everyone.’ But it was literally crafted to be for everyone,” Robbie said after being asked if the film was made for kids. Director Greta Gerwig crafted humor aimed at children and adults, the film’s star further explained.

    However, members of the cast and crew have praised the film’s left-leaning messages on gender in media interviews. “It most certainly is a feminist film,” Gerwig said to ABC News Australia. “It’s feminist in a way that includes everyone,” she elaborated.

    Transgender actor Hari Nef, who plays a “Doctor Barbie” told Out Magazine that the film had an empowering message about being transgender. “As much as there’s a celebration of femininity and being a girl in this [movie], I think there’s also an encouragement of letting go of the checklist we ascribe to living and living your life and being in your body your way, on your own terms,” Nef said.”

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    1. so is it about a guy wanting to be barbie?
      there was (is) a chick who had enormous amounts of plastic surgery to look like barbie iirc…
      what’s the deal with barbie?
      other than the model for the doll clothes i made, i didn’t identify with her at all…except for the big boobs and blond hair. she had legs longer than any real woman…lol

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      2. I went thru my Barbie phase but more because of it being pushed on me by my A-Mom. I always preferred my tomboy ways but…..I had to comply if I wanted to stay – at least, that’s the way it felt to me.

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  21. so the inconvenient fact that it didn’t garner the ratification of 38 states, 2 dems are saying the ERA IS the 28th amendment and they just want the national archivist to publish it as such?
    FTA
    If prevarication were an Olympic sport, and America’s Democrats a team, they would bring home the gold every four years without fail.

    So, despite the fact that the ERA was never ratified, Democrat New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Democratic Missouri Representative Cori Bush recently introduced a proposal stating that the ERA has already been ratified as the 28th Amendment—and urging the National Archivist to certify and publish this fiction immediately.

    Bush stated: “For us, it is already done. The E.R.A. is the 28th Amendment. We just need the archivist to publish it.”

    Forget the inconvenient fact that it is given to the states to ratify amendments.

    So, wake up, Republicans. If you want to defund Planned Parenthood and NPR—and eradicate the NEA—all you have to do is loudly and repeatedly aver, “For us, it is already done.”

    After all, if you want to save “our democracy,” you can’t worry about adhering to democratic processes! Just damn your opponents and make it so!

    The Gillibrand/Bush stunt almost certainly won’t work. (Although in this era of make-believe one can’t ever be 100% sure of anything.) Rather, Dems intend it to serve as yet another way to hurt Republicans politically by putting them further on defense regarding the issue of abortion. Therefore, this is effectively a political rather than a legal effort. Bush has essentially admitted as much, stating that the proposal is

    …packed with potential to protect access to abortion care nationwide, defeat bans on gender-affirming health care, shore up marriage equality, eliminate the gender wage gap, help end the epidemic of violence against women and girls, and so much more.

    Abortion care?” Is this like “death penalty care?” I am against abortions because the baby is innocent—and for the death penalty in certain extreme cases because mass murderers are not—but in neither case should the word “care” be used. Progressives want to change the meaning of words so they can control the narrative… so they can control everything else. If conservatives let them do so, they deserve what they get.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/democrats_pretending_the_era_was_ratified_and_is_the_28th_amendment.html

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  24. “Things were a lot different back in 1966. Paper dresses were an actual thing, and Andy Warhol’s iconic soup can bullshit was oh-so hip and popular. This was a pretty cool marketing idea at the time, and the company actually had to re-order more dresses three different times, eventually selling more than 13,000 of them. Nowadays they’d probably have a fuckin’ guy wearing the dress. Different times, my friend. Different times.”

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      1. don’t know.
        our power company drove their truck up our driveway (a rare thing)! and he asked if we have power. i said we just got it back on…
        problem with us is, we get our actual power from NY who routes it to PA and then to us. he checked out road, but nothing was amiss there so his normal procedure was then to inform NY to check their system.
        whatever it was, NY fixed it…

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  27. sync
    July 17, 2023 11:12 am

    Matthew Whitaker is quoted in a TV interview on Newsman that the plea agreement entered into with Hunter Biden is a Rule 11(c)(1)(C) agreement.
    That means the sentencing parameters in the agreement are binding on the Judge if the Court accepts the agreement.

    AGAIN — this is practically a “unicorn” in DOJ.

    In 21 years I managed to get ONE 11(c)(1)(C) agreement authorized.
    

    Matthew Whitaker is quoted in a TV interview on Newsman that the plea agreement entered into with Hunter Biden is a Rule 11(c)(1)(C) agreement.
    That means the sentencing parameters in the agreement are binding on the Judge if the Court accepts the agreement.

    AGAIN — this is…

    — Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) July 17, 2023

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  35. I’m thinking my Orioles might be starting their migration….I’ve only seen 2 baby females this morning and I usually have to refill the jelly every morning but not today….

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  36. Here is Vivek supporting masks and being upset at conservatives that opposed them

    If you look back more than 6 months into this guy’s past, you’ll see he’s a soft, mushy clown who learned to say a bunch of buzzwords conservatives love in 2023 https://t.co/4rfz8VupwT pic.twitter.com/hfvAgpAZwl

    — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) July 17, 2023

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  37. Pat, this is VERY long but it also connects a LOT of dots re: Trump – he agrees with my premise that Trump had no choice but to compromise on the jabs as the lesser of the evils. I posted some excerpts at M’s. He also discusses other subjects, like Q.

    “A Virus, or a Metaphor? Decoding Donald Trump’s COVID Comms”

    ERIK CARLSON
    JUL 17, 2023

    https://badlands.substack.com/p/a-virus-or-a-metaphor

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  38. bjorkdream
    July 17, 2023 12:19 pm

    An old man was eating in a truck stop when three rough-looking bikers walked in.

    As they passed the old man, the first biker pushed his cigarette into the old man’s pie, then laughed and took a seat at the counter.

    The second biker picked up the old man’s milk and spit into it. The third biker turned over the old man’s plate before joining the others at the counter.

    Without saying a word to the laughing bikers, the old man put his money down, got up, and left the diner. One of the bikers said to the waitress, “Not much of a man, was he?”

    The waitress replied,” Not much of a truck driver either. He just backed his big rig over three motorcycles!”

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    1. And that’s exactly what my sis would do…but, then, I doubt it would have gotten that far in the first place! She’d have snatched their dicks thru their throats!!!

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  39. Hi Pat,

    I love the driftwood tree! I can just see it decorated with nuts, cones, nests and birds, or sea horses, starfish and shells. Even dried flowers and leaves.

    Very cool!

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    1. Hi GA! hope things are going will with you!!
      I thought it was a cool idea too!
      my daughter and granddaughter LOVE the beach and they collect all sorts of things–shark teeth, driftwood, starfish. she intends to try a small one for her room!

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    1. haven’t seen any grosbeaks either. but as i said, the berry bushes will be coming into season soon if not already.and this mountain is loaded with them–hence the black bears

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  46. Well, surprise, surprise! I saw the UPS truck pulling out of my shared driveway w/my neighbor – since they get deliveries all the time, I thought nothing of it. Imagine my surprise when I go out with my watering can and see a package on my front porch! Huh??? OK, I still have one thing coming from PCH but this is waaaay too heavy to be the butterfly wind-spinner I ordered….??? My goodness! A very heavy black cast iron flag mount!!! Whoopee!! I guaran-dam-tee you THAT won’t break!

    Thank you sooooo much, Pat! I know it was you…..you should NOT have spent that much $$$!!! But I’m going to enjoy it nonetheless!

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    1. when we were at Mom’s I asked about the flag holder she had–she said my brother took it with the flag. so i went looking for another one for you! i hope it’s the one you wanted!

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  49. Yo, Pat – freight train derailed in PA! I haven’t watched it yet…

    “Homes evacuated after a 40-car CSX Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in Pennsylvania… Do you believe what officials are saying in that video?”

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    2. they said silicon pellets (non hazardous) were leaking from a car and the one car that has hazardous materials wasn’t…that’s what i read a little while ago.

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