1st Attempt at creating a tree

Here is my tree I have used in my December scene. I started off by creating a cylinder, I then went to the Splines menu and drew on the branches using lines. The next step was to extrude the cylinder along the lines to make the branches 3D. I did this by converting the cylinder to editable mesh and by selecting the face that the line was attached to, I was able to click extrude, followed by the line to create my branches.