O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree!

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Thy leaves are so unchanging

We're now two months away from the first of two craft fairs that I'm working this year. Both of them are bookending the Thanksgiving holiday, and obviously, the minds of consumers will have already moved well past turkey comas and football to tinsel and snowmen.

As such, I've decided to introduce a Christmas line in this year, the main feature being, well, Christmas trees.







 That's the bottom half of it, anyway.

I modified it a bit to make it one piece and in the round. 'Cause I STINK at seaming. I go out of my way to avoid seaming when I can. And I think the pattern calls for beads and other decorations to be added after the fact, and I'm adding them as I go, using some beads I found in the back of my closet when I recently cleaned it out.




 I have enough of these beads to make two trees, and I have quite a bit of silver and gold colored beads. (Seriously people, every time I see those beads, or even think the words "silver and gold," I think of Yukon Cornelius from Rudolf.)


 I've also made a bunch of snowmen. They're cute (and snowmen is generally a good seller at craft fairs, from what I can tell), but these ones came out almost baby-fied.



 See? Cute, but baby-fied.

 Is baby-fied a word? I think there's another word out there, but I'm not entirely sure what it is, so I'll make a new one.

Baby-fied.

Yup. It works.

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