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Faux Weeping Willow Tree

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Greg Saffles at Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville, TN brings us this Christmas goodness. (originally posted March 2011) The idea was to create an outdoor winter scene – hence the white trees outside of the windows. The design itself was fairly simple – they went out to some woods behind the church, cut down a […]

Why, Oh Why did it not occur to me to take some pictures of these palm trees in progress? Silly, I know! Pool Noodles are the secret to making palm trees. I taped two pool noodles together end to end with duct tape. Then I spray painted them brown. Each tree took about 100 lunch size paper sacks. I cut the bottoms off of all of them and then smooshed them down together. I slid the bags onto the pool noodles until I had the whole thing covered. The bottom and top bag got taped onto the pool…

VBS 2015 Palm tree from umbrella

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