The Real Christmas Tree ornaments
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Hand Cutfrom Reycled Christmas trees! Ken is a master model maker, Brenda is an artist and together they form the nucleus of AKA Collectibles. Theyare a husband and wife team that have worked together, for many years, making scale models. Part of the precision model making business is finding small amounts of the proper materials. Ken is always hunting for the right piece of mahogany for a tugboat rail, birch for an engine cowl, or poplar for a shaped fender. If you're in that business, sooner or later, you'll trip over last year's Christmas tree one too many times.
It all started when Ken sliced a few sections from the base of a dry Christmas tree. He sanded them smooth and passed them to Brenda. An artist sees things that the rest of us don't and the odd shaped growth rings of a Christmas tree are fuel for an artist's imagination. Brenda found a unique pattern where a branch had once grown. To her artist's eye it looked like smoke coming from a chimney. The sweep of the outer rings looked like evergreens swept by wind and snow. Obviously a cabin in the woods belonged in the middle. Now it was Ken's turn to surgically cut the disk with a scroll saw. With the addition of a bow and a hanging hook, the cabin in the woods ornament was born. Each ornament measures between 3 and 5 inches depending upon the tree. Each is obviously unique.
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