Nice change of pace today. I worked on structure for the stuff going under the tree. I cut some fabric for the quilted tree skirt, re-sized a cardboard box for the unwrapped gift, made some more gift boxes, decided the size of Mary and Jesus, and shaped a yule log out of Styrofoam. I also shaped the tree stand. This probably won’t show but I think it will help everything to look right. It was good to figure out what is going under the tree. Tomorrow I plan to shape the jacket (with a zipper) that goes into the open box and shape any substructure I need for Mary and Jesus. Then when I get everything painted on Thursday I should be ready to start putting candy on things next week.

Some good news today too. The check came from Jordan River. Yeah! I really didn’t want to have to call and see why it was taking so long. I think I’ll order the green candy for the tree tomorrow too.