Bottle Brush Trees and Old Wooden Spools

  I picked up a bag of old wooden thread spools at a flea market last week. There were 9 of them, 4 of one design and 5 of another. The 4 shorter, fatter spools have graphics from a textile factory in Shelby NC on the tops and bottoms of them.  

 

I had a few ideas of what I thought I would use the spools for.

My first thought was to use them as hooks on a coat/hat rack, but then the cooler weather changed my direction.

 

I decided to jump ahead a little to CHRISTMAS!!!!