Family Tree/ Cute Cork board

Ok so big little is in 2 days and you're stressin about making a family tree but you're out of ideas?  Well I have your solution.
Or maybe you want to make a cute family tree for your grandmothers 70th birthday.
Or maybe you just really like trees!

Well here's a cute, easy idea that can help you solve any of those wishes!  It's a cork board with a tree painted on it, outlined in yarn.  Cute right?  Here's how you pull this off....

Whatcha need:
1. Cork board
2. Paint and paintbrushes
3. Yarn
4. Wood pieces
5. Markers
6. Flower embellishments
7. Glue gun with glue sticks
8.  Scissors
8 1/2. Patience
*Optional*
9. Tacs
10. Screws
11. Jewels

Here's how you make it!

1. Paint a tree coming off the right side, so essentially you're doing only half a tree.  If you're not a savvy artist, trees can be really easy: just start with the trunk then branch out to two branches then branch those two into two more so now you have 4 and then so on.  Make them go in slightly different ways for some variety!
2. Now, once that glue gun has heated up, unwind your yarn a little bit and glue the yarn around all the edges of the tree.  This is where you'll use your patience.  Start at the bottom of the tree and work you way up doing small sections at a time.  Go ahead and keep the yard going around all the branches that are cut off by the edge of the board.  You should have one string going from start to finish of the tree and then you can out lines pieces that are secluded between branches.
3. Then, take those cute flowers you have (I like to cut flowers off the big bundles that I buy at hobby lobby, or they also have little containers of flowers in the "spare parts" brand section) and glue a few of them to the tree.
4. Now paint small wood pieces (they have a bag of small wood rectangles in the wood section of hobby lobby) and write the names of your family members on them with marker once they are dry.  Glue these pieces to the tree in generation order (I started with the oldest at the bottom).
*Optional*
5. Glue an assortment of jewels to a few tacks for an added, functional touch to the board and stick them in the corner.
6. Since it's a cork board you can buy some screw in hooks and screw them in to the bottom of the cork board if it's a board that isn't lined with wood!  That way you can hang necklaces, keys or memorabilia on the bottom of your creation!

Now step back and look at this wonderful, one-of-a-kind, family tree you've just made.  Now let's just hope Crazy Aunt Susie doesn't notice you kicked her off the family branch.