Please first read my message in the reply to Todd's email about TTC 2016.
These four photos are different sides and parts of the same tree. It's the seven foot tall one and is covered with many different kinds of hand made ornaments, hence Mary calls it "Handmade".
Some of these are ornaments that are made in the crafts area by kids during the TTC event. Others were wooden, dough, fabric, and some "store bought" made to appear handmade.
In the photo titled Handmade-2 you'll see a large Santa ornament on the left side. He's standing in front of a wad of lights that don't work. This is the tree that I did on my own last year. After I'd put lights on it, part of one of the strings quit. Rather than take them all off and restring them, I wadded them into a ball and tied it together with twine. It was on the back of the tree last year. This year it ended up right in front so I put Santa where I did to cover the ugliness. I wonder if anyone noticed.
In the photo Handmade-3 on the right side under the big white snowman is a square of wood. This is one of the non-working train whistles. When we have defective toys in the gift shop Mary often re-purposes them as Christmas ornaments. A good share of these whistles were poorly made. I had to figure out a way to hang them on the tree. I found some old fashioned narrow ribbon in a box that worked. I found the bag and reel of twist ties I'd been searching for AFTER I was done.
