Semi-Finished Dew Tree

So last night after we got done eating at wingers for my birthday, we were just sitting around and decided to start building our tree. We were going to use root beer cans as the trunk since they were brown but we didnt have any... so we got our beer bottles that we have been collecting too... jk they are really the IBC root beer. So here is our trunk. The plate is for a flat surface for the cans to sit on.

This was the bottom layer. I think there are 61 cans on this layer. So then we just started building up from there.

So we kept gluing the cans up and the next layer had 37 cans and it just went down from there.
So we got to this point and didn't have very many more empty cans and we wanted it to be taller. So we called everyone over to drink some mtn dew cuz we are pretty sick of it:)

This is our semi finished product. We added some red cans for the bulbs and the squirt cans for the star!! clever i know... but we aren't quite finished yet. We had a few more finishing touches to add to it and I will post them as soon as it's done. I was just so excited to get this far and have our tree up. We are thinking of selling it on ebay so keep your eyes open if you want to bid on it!! haha but for those of you who were desperately waiting, here are some pictures to start with. We used hot glue to glue the cans together for those of you who were wondering!!