{"id":1327,"date":"2014-12-07T15:30:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellapamella.com\/blog\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2018-10-05T17:05:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T22:05:39","slug":"idea-74-make-a-holiday-kitchen-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/idea-74-make-a-holiday-kitchen-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"IDEA 74: MAKE A HOLIDAY KITCHEN TREE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many years ago, at a kitchen shop, I was enticed by a silver-plated Christmas ornament in the shape of a miniature colander. It was at that very moment I decided to give my beloved kitchen a Christmas tree of its own.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Of course, there isn\u2019t a lot of extra room in my kitchen, so I bought the smallest tree I could find, about 2 \u00bd feet high.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Over the years I have collected special kitchen themed ornaments for this tree, which has now become an annual tradition, brought home along with the regular sized family Christmas tree.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve got a tiny old fashioned egg beater, a whisk, rolling pin, fry pan, cheese shredder, kettle, a mini spoon, knife and fork, a tiny blender and myriad plates, cups and teapots.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To make your own kitchen tree, you\u2019ll need a small tree stand with a water reservoir. The one I use is much bigger than it needs to be, but it was one we had around so I use it. Look for a nicely shaped \u201ctable top\u201d tree. They are much less expensive than a full sized one, although I usually have to shop around a couple places to find them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I like to start by winding a beautiful ribbon on the tree. I don\u2019t use any lights. But you could if you want to.<\/span><\/p>\n

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My wide ribbon has wire in the edges. This makes it very easy to just sort of unwind the ribbon down the tree. It naturally wants to curve that way.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Then I insert several \u201cfruit picks\u201d. I keep these with my ornaments and just stick them right into the tree.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Kitchen_Tree_Berry_picks\"<\/span><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t need everything right away. In fact, it\u2019s more fun to add a new ornament to your kitchen tree each year.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Kitchen_Tree_Dec_cropped\"<\/span><\/p>\n

So what do you put on the treetop? A star shaped cookie cutter, of course.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Many years ago, at a kitchen shop, I was enticed by a silver-plated Christmas ornament in the shape of a miniature colander. It was at that very moment I decided to give my beloved kitchen a Christmas tree of its own. Of course, there isn\u2019t a lot of extra room in my kitchen, so I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,33,34,35,37,39,43,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellapamella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}