It all started three years ago with a small stack of books and a string of lights in our prepress department.

This year, BNB decided to up our game with a 5-foot Christmas Book Tree to celebrate the season.

Employees from several departments gathered books earmarked for recycling, and took time early in December to build a tree. Glue and creativity flowed freely as the small group added, subtracted and rearranged books into a pleasing (and structurally stable) shape.

Onlookers may have heard phrases like, "I'm not an engineer, but...." or "I think it's leaning forward, try this..." However, in general the tree building process went smoothly.

After stringing a few twinkle lights, our BNB Christmas Book Tree was complete. Of course, no tree is complete without a special tree topper - our own gigantic pine cone!