This great sixties tree, complete in box with all the little paper sleeves was found at a flea market during the summer. These are not too hard to find, but this particular one was extremely full and in excellent condition. It was one of those must-haves! Several different attempts to photograph this aluminum tree have not been very satisfactory, but I decided to go with what I have. Hopefully it will be clear enough to show the effect.

The ornaments are a bit hard to see, but there are really quite a few of them. It is the same with the glass ornament garlands, there are many on the tree, just hard to see.

Instead of the standard revolving color wheel in this room, a set of clear lights was nestled around the base of the tree on top of a silvery fabric. Next a layer of silver mesh was put on top of the lights to diffuse the light a bit and to "hide" the strings of lights.

Don't you love it when something turns out better than you expected? This project was one of those, everytime I loook at this tree -- it makes me smile!