DIY- Giant Christmas Star

My lovely neighbor started decorating her yard this past weekend and seeing her finished product made me think that I needed to up my game.  After looking at pinterest and Lowes, I didn't really find anything I liked.  My husband said he could make me a big star out of PVC pipes and asked if I could dress it up for the second story.  He originally wanted to mount it on the roof, but that didn't look as cool as just hanging it.  Using the pipes we had, we made the first star and I decorated it and I LOVE it!

Mr. Adorable with the Christmas Star

Each pole on this star was about 4 feet long.  I used two and a half packages of tinsel and 400 white on white lights.  

Supplies from Lowes

While I was at Lowes, I picked up a few more 10 foot lengths of PVC pipes and noticed that they had red tinsel and lights.  Since we do our house with white lights and red trim, I thought some red stars to line the flower beds would look nice. We cut the PVC in thirds, so 3 feet 4 inches.  You need 2 pieces to make one star and you will have one leftover.  My husband duct taped the ends and then centered the star and duct taped the middle.  I plan to make five more stars in white and red for my flower beds.  

to make, just wrap tinsel around, then wrap lights around

finished red star 

I'll post another picture when we officially light up next weekend, but this is how the silver one looks on my house.  I love the sparkle and it looks lovely during the day.  I think this would look great over a fireplace mantle too