Christmas tree tradition - part two

This year we decided to build again. WOO HOO!! We decided we were going to get corrugated steel roofing panels, fold them into triangles then place them one on top of each other with lights cascading down them.

The Friday after Thanksgiving we headed to Home Depot. We purchased all the necessary items including three corrugated roofing panels. Hint, measure your car before you go. Take tie downs if yo need to place items on your roof rack or borrow a truck. We got the panels to the FJ only to realize they would not fit. Idea! let's just fold them now and then they will fit for sure. WRONG!! Corrugated panels are designed NOT to bend. OOPS. So, we returned two and kept the "dented" one.

Saturday we were in Tremonton with my Brother and Sister in law. We plotted the way there and back on a new tree. We decided to get three 2 x 4's and make a triangle. Then we covered them with metal roofing panels on a roll that are 14" wide. We didn't want the lights to show so we taped them to the back of the metal. All you can see is metal and light bulbs. It is pretty cool if you ask me. Here it is with all the lights off.

Here is the tree with all the lights in the room off and only the lights from the tree on.

Here it is with the lights in the room on and the lights on the tree.

There is one main item that is the same with all our trees. They are all made of stainless/aluminum products or made to look like it. Maybe we will go out of our norm next time. Who knows what 2011 will bring!