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I still decorate my family tree with my parents and that one is the same fake tree we've had since I was about 3 years old. We probably have enough ornaments for 3 trees though, because my relatives just can't stop buying them for us! But each year we decide how we want to decorate the tree, white lights or multi color, garland or no garland, traditional or color scheme dependent. It involves more storage, but honestly, we can't throw out a lot of those personal decorations and it gives us flexibility to change it up if we want!

My mom always makes hers out of folded triangles of parchment paper. She's a cake decorator and has always used those instead of traditional pastry bags for detail work. They're stiffer than bags and can handle more pressure! Now if only I could master the crazy origami technique she uses to make it work...

I look at the bottom of the cookie, when it starts to pull away from the pan and round out. Also when you can easily scoot/nudge them on the pan with the spatula, they're probably done.