Mom and I have been looking at photographs from my childhood days and every year there were pictures of big Christmas trees. It was one splurge we made on a regular basis. I think that’s what led mom to say that it would be nice to have a big tree this year; we haven’t had a full size one in a long time.
These days there are lots of artificial ones to choose from and here’s the one that we brought home:

The lights were pre-strung and the tree looked quite good when they were on but a little bare when they were off. I happened to have a few sheets of holiday themed paper and some heavy card stock, so I made very simple flowers with a silver bauble in the center and some bind wire:


99 flowers later, here’s the tree, both lit and unlit:

