I didn’t make any ornaments this year. Usually come Christmas-time I’ve got a box full of that year’s output but this year I had to sit down and make some. I decided to make clay ornaments from cookie cutters. Here are an angel and a stocking, decorated after baking with glitter.

Then I made a raft of candy canes. At first I was trying to get a real candy cane stripe going using that cane method (not named for candy canes but hey, it works) that I’ve read about but that wasn’t working out at all. I ended up with some crazy results and they started to grow on me, so I made crazy tie-died candy canes. Each one is unique, front and back. You just keep putting red and white clay into the pasta roller, folding and twisting, until you see something you like. Then cut. Fun.