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Another great rustic alternation to a Christmas tree is gathering branches in a vase and decorating them with ornaments and lights. Below is a large scale version of this idea, but it works just as well with something smaller.
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Want to put your creative skills to good use? Get some recycled wood and start crafting. These palette wooden Christmas trees would look great large or small, inside or outside. You can pretty much do anything you want to them to fit with your decor and they would look great.
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And while this next idea might not the most practical for smaller spaces, it shows how easy it is to incorporate items you already have in your home into your holiday decor! I have a dress form just like this in my home and during Christmas I always have to move it out of the way to make room for my tree...not going to lie, I may be forgoing a tree and making this awesome fashion forward Christmas tree alternative!