Paper, paper everywhere!

I've been spending some craft time getting my Christmas tree ready. It all began with those paper "icicles" I did; then I graduated to the Victorian ornaments (paper) and finally did some peppermint sticks (paper again!).....I'm happy with the results.
I achieved the look I was after; Christmas trees and quilts often elude me....I can see in my mind's eye what I want but often the materials are not available.  Paper is cheap so best of all this wasn't costly.  I ended up with 99 icicles, 23 peppermint sticks, 15 Victorian ornaments, a few oddment ornaments we previously had, 12 silver balls and white lights.  One hundred percent fun and 90% free!

These sticks are two inches long and were wrapped around a size 7 knitting needle.

 

Believe it or not, I'd still like to put another 99 icicles on!

The tree took 4 hours to decorate---and it is only 4 ft. high.

 

 

I wanted the icicles to show up----and I often turn the lights off when I am decorating to see what spots look empty.