I’ll do a bow tutorial on how I make them very soon! Might not be in time for this Christmas, but maybe you can refer back to it. I learned from a silk floral place in ATL about 25 years ago how to make bows & it has worked for me ever since. My sister bought a cheap bow maker and loves it too, so that might be even easier.

On the topper, NO it is not attached to foam or anything else, just like I said, it’s all stuck directly down into the top of the tree. All the stems are hidden with everything in the tree. My fake tree is in 3 parts and the top part is the very last piece that plugs in. I had not set up my tree yet when the newspaper came out, so I just got down that top part of the tree and sat it on a plastic bucket so that I could put it together, so that’s how it was photographed. I ended up just leaving it like that and when my tree was up, plopped the topper on there just like you see it, so I didn’t have to take it all apart again. You would be surprised how easy those long stems will slide into your tree and stay put.

HOpe that answers all your questions!

Thanks!