DIY Christmas Trees

So I have had the supplies for this project for ages and finally my friend and I attempted it.  The project I did is kind of a combination of these two original pins:

          

True to myself I made do with what I had on hand which was a very very thin and uneven green thread.  Pulled it through the glue, corn starch mixture and wrapped it around my styrofoam cones of three sizes.  Before starting I wrapped the cones in saran wrap and then put a layer of vaseline on that, to (reportedly) allow the "trees" to easily come off the molds once dry.

As you can probably guess this is not exactly how it went down.  While it was a wonderfully fun and messy project I could tell pretty early on that these trees were not going to politely pop off of their forms without some work.

Lessons I learned:

• When not using a balloon that one can pop and remove from the shape it is necessary to wrap loose, even with the vaseline and saran wrap.
• Use real string that is not super thin and breaks apart in your glue mixture - just takes so much longer to wrap it.
• A glue and corn starch mixture will not dry clear.  I know this should have been obvious but call it a brain fart.  Not a mistake because they are meant to be Christmas-y so I'm calling them frosted, but still.
• If you smash a foam cone enough it will eventually pop out from your "tree".  Just make sure that your tarp from the glue messiness is still down for this part too.

End results are not so bad.  Tried out two different styles of wrapping the string, and I'm pretty happy with a new DIY decoration for this year.