I wanted a second Christmas tree in our house, but didn’t want one that took up too much space, so I was on the hunt for a pencil tree. I couldn’t find a 7.5 ft flocked pencil tree that wasn’t super expensive, so I decided to buy a tree and flock it myself! The tree didn’t have lights either, so I lit it and then sprayed it with faux snow!

Before and after spraying with 1 can of snow. After decorating it, I wish I would have used more snow.

I think there was a deal on Amazon and I only paid $50 for this tree, which is pretty good. I wish it was pre-lit, but I’m still happy with it. I just had to make sure I fluffed it really well to fill in the gaps, since it is a little on the sparse side!

I bought two cans, but only used one for this tree. It is a 7.5ft pencil tree.

I sprayed light layers on the tree and built on each layer instead of spraying super heavy. After letting it dry for about 10 minutes, I brought it inside to start decorating. The “snow” stays on the tree pretty well, but there was a little fall-out as I was decorating.

All of these decorations were from At Home.

If you like the look of lots of decorations on a tree, make sure you buy more decorations than you think! If you think you have enough, buy more! Unfortunately I didn’t listen to my own advice and I feel like I could have used more decorations. I might make a trip back to the store and get a few more.

When you decorate, start with the bigger balls/decorations first and stagger them so they are never directly beside or above/below each other. You can see in the first pic that they are all staggered. Continue biggest to smallest until all the decorations are used.

Here is the finished product! I like it, but I think it could use more “snow” and more decorations. 🙂

Wendy’s Pj’s linked here

Bar Cart Linked here