If you haven’t seen the work of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, you need to check it out. The were the father and son team from Czechoslovakia, known as Bohemia when they were alive, that created the most wonderful replicas of botanical and sea specimens. Their work is is in museums including Corning and at Harvaard. The Museum at Corning has a Blaschka era lamp working station, table and torch, that they have on display so you can see what was used to create their amazing work. Check it out over at Corning’s web site.
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Scrap yarn is great to make a colorful pom pom Christmas tree topper
If you like making pom poms and looking for a unique tree topper why not make a big ball of pom poms out of all sorts of colored yarn to make a statement tree topper. After you have made your pom pom tree topper featured at the blog Sugar and Cloth why not use the scrap yarn to embellish the branches like tinsel?