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Basically what they did was they took the large twist ties (like on a bunch of celery) and cut slits along the sides (towards the center wire). Then they trimmed the end to a taper. They cut these at about 3 to 4 inches in length and stripped off about the last 3/4 of the material, leaving only the wire. They took about 8 or 9 of these "fronds" and then wrapped the prepped masking tape around the wires, forming the trunk. The masking tape was prepped by cutting notches into it so it looked like the top of a dog-eared cedar fence, only smaller. They then stained the tape (but I guess paint would work) to get the desired color. <br />This is hard to describe, but the results are well worth the effort from what I saw in the article.
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