christmas tree festival

This is St Andrew's Church, standing on the hill above the village of Stoke Trister, where they hold an annual Christmas Tree Festival. It is a lovely small church with a beautiful old organ.


Some of the Christmas trees were dressed by groups, some by individuals, but they were all very different.










Do you remember when I was making my fabric birds? Well, this is our Textile group's tree, "Birds",


and some of the other's:

I liked this "Cross Stitch Christmas",


a tree by the "Brainwave" charity group

"To Music" with ornaments made from fabric with music theme


"Earts & Crafts"

But the most impressive and hard hitting was this one, "Them and Us", a tree made out of wood. One side represented all the wealth and opulence of one part of the world,


the others side the desperation and struggle for a survival by the rest of the world.