Fortune christmas cooky tree

1      recipe        Fortune Christmas Cookies
  50                    6" squares of saran wrap
  50                    slips of paper with fortunes written on
                        fine wire or thread
   1                    styrofoam plastic tree-
                        about 24" tall 9" base
   8                    yards 1/2" white ribbon
  13                    yards 1/2" green ribbon
                        straight pins

Wrap cookies in the squares of saran wrap enclosing the fortune slips on
the bo
ttom. Close with fine wire on the bottom of the cooky.

After tying, cut saran wrap close to cooky, leaving just enough to pin on
tree.

Cut 4" lengths from the white ribbon. Starting at lower corner of
tree, place a
  white ribbon loop and a red Fortune Christmas cooky on the tree with a
 straigh
t pin stuck in on the diagonal. Pin another white loop on the other side.

For the second row, pin on a white loop, a pink cooky, a white loop,
another pi
nk cooky and another white loop.

For the third row, pin on a green tailored bow the size of the space on the
tre
e.

Continue placing cookies and ribbons in this manner until the tree is
completel
y covered.

Finish edge of tree with loops of green ribbon.