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Hopefully, I did this correctly. No promises.

Each year, even if I'm gone ages, I have to come at Christmas for the beautiful Christmas tree. So, this is my entry: The Holiday Turtle Tree.

It is made with polymer clay (UN-BAKED!!) and a bit of garland for the tree. Presents are just foam wrapped as mini-presents.

The 'lights' that don't show well on the tree are bits of the clay painted with eye shadow. WIsh they had shown up better. I kind of cheated on the candy cane and just used a colored pipe cleaner.

I used one of my sculpting tools to get the intricate design on the turtle--again, probably doesn't come through, LOL. I am so not an artist--but it was fun!

He's going to be baked, glazed and I'll use the 'tree' to hang him

Excuse the mess! This was taken in my craft room, as I was afraid if I moved it before it was baked that it would fall apart on me.

This is really cool! Nice job!

Love the idea! Never would have thought of making the christmas tree turtle we all know and love so much!

Oh woooooow you're so good!

thanks, guys

I made a coal wyrm, too, as they are one of my favorite all-time pets here. Will have to take a pic of it when it's baked and glazed. I did the baby coal rather than the adult. It's sooooo tiny.