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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 (see my other shop, 
TheSausage on Etsy). 

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 !! 

 

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