The Xmas thread

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

17. What tops your tree?
A blue stained-glass star sculpture. I love it, it's my favorite decoration.

Maybe I will go back and do the whole questionaire, but I wanted to answer this one.

When I was young, may 9 or 10, I noticed that we didn't have a tree topper. So I decided to make a star. So I took a piece of chipboard and drew a five-pointed star on it (about six-inches in diameter) and cut the shape out. Next, I glued tin foil onto both sides, trying to keep it as unwrinkled as possible and making sure to put the shinier side out.

I next had to figure out how to put it on top of the tree. So I took some more foil and wrapped it around two fingers and the ends of the fingers to create a cylinder that was open only on one end. I used glue to keep it in a cylinder (and not unravel) and to glue it to the star with the opening on the bottom. That could be slid onto the top branch sticking straight up on the tree.

To this day, 35 years later, my mother STILL uses this as her tree topper.