Mostly ridiculous, a little bit sublime

I love these bookends from Anthropologie, but, like so many of things sold at that store, they are ridiculously overpriced. They're priced between $168 and $228, because adding fake snow apparently adds sixty bucks to the already inflated cost. However, I'm pretty sure this is one of the rare craft projects I could actually duplicate, and at a fraction of the price. I'm not particularly good with my hands, but how hard can varnishing some wood and adding a bunch of model trees be?