Good Morning Everyone. My Mother has told me stories about when she was a very small girl and how her Father used to decorate 6 - 8 different types of Christmas trees in his home at Christmas, usually spending six months in advance planning and designing his living room and his display ideas. His display was so well known that people used to drive all the way from New York to his home in Clearfield County to see his decorations. There was one type of Christmas tree he decorated that I can't seem to find any information on the Internet. It was a cotton batting tree. He would find a young tree in the woods (not an evergreen), drag it home, set it up, put the lights on and then would wrap cotton batting very carefully around the branches and hide the wires. Then he would add natural decorations that he would find in the woods such as bird nests, decorated pine cones, etc. and use the cotton batting to tie the decorations on. From what I can read this tree would have been appropriatly developed during WW11 since we weren't supposed to be cutting down evergreens then. I'm working with a Girl Scout troop now and I thought that putting a similar tree together for an old folks home would be a nice project but I can't find anything on them and my Mother was very small at the time. Is there anyone out there that can add any information to this? Thanks, Renee L. Waring ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com