I found a flat wooden tree discarded in the streets.It was plain, unvarnished wood, and was missing some coat-pegs.
I washed it, removed the pegs, polished it, painted it with acrylic paint.
Then I tried my best to find wooden pegs in shops in the shape of lemons that would fit on my tree, (I would even have taken any fruit !!) but no matter how hard I tried, I could never find any.
So I decided to make some, with polymer clay. Polymer clay is soft, and easy to shape, but becomes very hard and resistant once it's been baked.
I know this material very well because I work a lot with it when I make my jewels (www.sausagejewels.com)
So I shaped my six lemons, and planted in them some long enough screws, baked them and there you go !! They were ready to assemble.
Now my tree is one of its kind, and you won't find the like of it in a furniture shop !! It's all refurbished and handmade.
The tree must be fixed on a wall and there are some holes at the back for hooks to hold it.
It is approximately one meter high, and 75 cm at the widest.
The coats or clothes are hung onto the lemons. They hold! it even works for adults'coats !
However I imagined this tree for a child's bedroom.
And my reward... delicious lemon juice, as it is summer and 28°C in Paris today !!
100 x 75 cm // 3 cm thick.
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Coat rack for kids. Kids' furniture, kids' bedroom. Can be fixed to a wall.
