We finally got our tree up...

... last week.  It isn't straight, but who cares, it's up :).  Two days later we put the star on, hehe.  I was looking at the tree and thinking how pretty it was this year even though it was just kind of thrown up here and there when I decided to take the picture, so you get an imperfect house picture in the process.  

We watch all versions of "A Christmas Carol" each year, along with "It's A Wonderful Life".

  

(the Alastair Sim's version of "A Christmas Carol" is the best)

At our Angier ASG Sew Inspired meeting we made fabric tree stars taught by Ann Burgin.

Fabric was adhered to poster board using double sided fusible web.

12 - 1/4" strips where cut for the stips.  6 strips are woven as below.  You do this again for the back of the star. 

 It's hard to tell in this picture, however you have the two woven strips set together (offset 45 degrees).  

In this picture you can see the layers better.  The top middle piece is the top layer and the two pieces on either side of it are the bottom layer.  These will be folded around the top center piece.

Here you see the finished fabric star and one woven from 1/4' basket reed.  Two more strips were added for this one.

 Part of my 

While the kids grandmother was down we went to the famous "Southern Supreme" Fruitcake Factory in Bear Creek, NC.  I was never a fruitcake person and only knew that you give them to people you don't like!  Well I found out that's the Walmart version and that some people really do like fruitcakes, lol.