Bottle Brush Trees

There is a bit of a bottle brush tree obsession going on at our house. 

Mollie was inspired last year by our friend Paige Knudsen's mantel

 and her quest began- filling the mantel with a forest of bottle brush trees. 

Every size and color!

This is our mantel from last year. 

This year the forest is full and colorful! 

(Although she is on the hunt for 1 more tall gold bottle brush tree for the left side !!)

Look at these colors!!

They are a lot of fun because they come in every color imaginable and are fun to group all together or tuck in here and there. Here are a couple we added to our powder room shelf.

I made a much smaller scale bottle brush display :)

 I "planted" mine in vintage blue and white tea cups and bowls. This one is on a brass bamboo tray that corrals our hot chocolate corner in the kitchen.

Bottle Brush trees have an unusual name but they are exactly what it sounds like!

This is what Google had to say:

In the 1930s, Addis Brush Company, an American manufacturer of toilet bowl brushes, began dyeing bristles green and assembling them into artificial Christmas trees. These new artificial trees were especially popular in Britain, which had lost many of its trees during WWI.

And now, they are very popular again. 

You can find them anywhere that sells Christmas decorations!