Platform design and the future of construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with our Head of Global Systems, Jaimie Johnston MBE

I thought he was going to ask me why the sugar bowl was empty or something like that again.

We have a lot of really big old maple trees on our property, with the four biggest ones kind of around the four corners of our house.The very biggest one was right outside of our master bedroom window, but it had been dying a little more every year and making us more and more nervous with the big wind storms that we get out here all the time.

It was a pretty tree though!.We’ve actually had three or four arborists come out to look at it over the last few years and they’ve all said that it really just can’t be saved.Obviously you can’t tell when it’s mid-November and all the leaves are gone, but the whole front half right by the road was dead..

So we had to have it cut down.It was quite the impressive operation though!.

They started out by using this super-long chainsaw-on-a-stick thing to remove all of the smaller lower branches.. Then, we actually had to  have our power line to the house disconnected so that all the machinery could be moved in closer to the tree..

Since Chris was home that day to watch the spectacle, we decided to also paint our kitchen cabinets.It’s a pretty impressive end product when you realize just how super easy they are to make!.

To make the really big flower, just keep adding petal strips, wrapping and gluing them around your flower until you have the size you want.I think I used 4 petal strips for the one pictured here..

This is a really fun craft for kids so I really encourage you to try it out!Why not add a few onto something for Birthdays, Easter or Mothers’s Day this year?.