This was the Xmas tree this year, no funds ready to go and buy one (and, really, why? But friends and the kids were giving me grief, they wanted it "Christmasy", so I pointed at the many boxes of raw materials and suggested they all go to town.
Voila! Note, I take no credit for this, other than the raw materials, and for the general disinterest in the season that suggested if you wanted it here you were going to be creating it yourself...
All pieces from my bookshelf, old toy boxes, found objects, mixed media...