I got the most wonderful surprise!!!!

I've been ornament exchanging with an gal from North Carolina for an couple of years and she just sent me an photo of an 150 per cent enlargement of this huge tree and I could pick out everything I'd been sending her and making her, from the ribbon "doves" which is her internet name, to the little baby jars with decorations on top, and latern type wiring to be filled and hung on the tree, to fluffy sparkling snowflakes, made with enviromental safe "Canadian" snow, to the wooden beads for wrapping around the tree in hearts, to the odds and ends of red tiny plain ornaments for her to do up, and the red velvet bows. Looks very "down home" and "country" and yet "grand" in an way..wonderful surprise...how is everyone doing?

Maria, it's an fake snow made out of tree fibers up there that has nothing toxic in it...it is envoirmentally safe to use outside around wild animals. I've been shipping it all around the place down here ever since I first came across it at Joan's Fabric Center...as it's an relatively new product out on the market.  It costs about the same as the stuff that will do pets and animals "in" (or sick) if they lick on it or get any of it on them or eat it. So I am an promoter of this stuff. In my case, I have my "Friendship" Christmas Tree just mentioned, and I cut little "bands" off  white rolls off Christmas wrap(after the arapp is used....about an inch long or so, bigger for an bigger ornanment..and slighly bend them gently into an oblong shape, or hearts also, with an round center and work out with glue an "V" shape with five points or round for snowflakes and dip this in this stuff, using spray on glue first and they make Ornaments like they are sellign right now at Pier One Imports for in the $9 to $15 range. Smaller snowflakes can be used using toliet tissue rolls that are left over also, you can spray them colors, glitter them, what ever you got in mind. Soemideas I can think of are yard ro thread wrapped around them, pieces of fabric, ribbon perhaps.