The 2012 Xara Xone Tree-Trimming Collaboration

**Christine Farrelly** · 27 November 2012, 04:17 AM

Here's mine.

**molucca** · 27 November 2012, 06:11 AM

Seeing what I could do with a flake drawing.

Rich

**angelize** · 27 November 2012, 08:05 AM

I decided to relax this evening with a bit of drawing. We have two of these little cuties made from chistmas light bulbs and pipe cleaners that adorn our tree each year that we found at a craft sale years ago when the girls were little.

I thought I'd give this vector version to the TG community and the TG tree. The bulb is done in a named colour and the string is done with a brush (I used the eraser tool on it so you will need to ctrl+ alt+click to select the string with in the opacity for editing) so you can easily hang a few different coloured ones!

The pipcleaner antlers are also done with a brush and can be easily adjusted as well.

**Gare** · 27 November 2012, 07:51 PM

What's a "pipe cleaner"???

They're selling them for 20x what they used to charge at a tobacconist here in the States, mostly in crafts stores, as "fuzzy wire twisters" or some other mysterious name.

-g

**gracehjs** · 27 November 2012, 09:08 PM

Here is an ornament made from Workbook 73.

**angelize** · 28 November 2012, 12:51 AM

Most here still refer to them as pipe cleaners although yes the stores here sell them as fuzzy twisters etc at a higher price as well.

**siskiyoujim** · 28 November 2012, 03:12 AM

My name is Asher and I am 10 years old, a homeschooler, and this is my dads account. He gave me permission to submit this picture. Thanks.
christmas deks.xar

**wizard509** · 28 November 2012, 03:36 PM

Good job Asher. Welcome to TG.

**Gare** · 28 November 2012, 03:59 PM

Welcome, Asher!

You are quite accomplished with Xara; I like the holly leaves and the bells.

Everyone: I'll try to get an update going in a few hours, reflecting Asher's, Paul's, Grace's, and Christine's contributions.

By the way, "Ego Food" here is really okay. If you want to post an image of the ornament on a copy of the branch.jpg file, in addition to the Xara file, do it!

—Gary

**Gare** · 28 November 2012, 06:24 PM

You folks are wearing me out!

Is at least one ornament from each contributor featured now? I find I need to move the view over, and to be frank, I'm not all that pleased with my placement of the ornaments. If anyone can handle a fairly large private email attachment and would like to rearrange our tree, please PM me.

Good going so far, though. Lop-sided but grand. Like Barbara refers to me.