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Posts Categorized: miscellaneous
This year’s ornaments
It was a last minute scramble but I did manage to make a few.These were made from glue-together foam kits, very simple. I added the Christmas tree lights to the 3D reindeer and a few other touches to spruce them up a bit, but the hardest part of these kits is holding everything together while… Read more »
Noah’s Ornaments
Here are two ornaments Noah made for me this year. Santa is made from beads that you place on a peg baord and then iron to set. It takes a lot of patience. The snowman is a painted suncatcher. I guess Noah takes after his Aunt Dawn.
Christmas card placemat 2008
Last year I made my first placemat out of Christmas cards. I got another beautiful hand drawn card from K again this year so I added to my collection. I think I need to make more friends though because it’s tough to accumulate enough cards for even one placemat per year. This one includes a… Read more »
Basket weaving
Remember in high school how “basket weaving” meant a gimme class? Maybe we should have tried it. I think basket weaving requires more hands than I have. This was made from a kit. I got better at it as I went around but you can see that my shaping efforts fall somewhat short or perfect… Read more »
Ugly cloth ornaments
When Todd saw these in the book he said, “I don’t know. They look kind of bunchy.” Well, he was right. These are made by taking two cloth circles and trying to ease them around a styrofoam ball. The result is kind of bunchy. Add to that the difficulty of getting everything square and centered… Read more »
Bottle brush tree ornaments
I got this idea out of a book. Hideous isn’t it? It’s huge for one thing. So I went back and looked and it’s meant to be a tree topper, not an ornament. But that only makes it slightly less hideous. I don’t have a good tree topper but it’s not going to be this… Read more »
“Stained glass” ornaments
Some more ornaments based on ideas from the Christmas craft books I got in a post-Christmas sale this year. I got three: Christmas Ornaments to Make, Christmas Comfort & Joy, and Simply Christmas. These were done using a special kind of paint that creates a stained glass effect. As with the gold leafing, learning on… Read more »
“Gold leafing” ornament
I got several nice books on decorating for Christmas at the post-Christmas sale at Border’s this year. They’re full of ideas for ornaments, one of which was to apply gold leafing (which comes in both real and fake varieties – this is the fake) to clear plastic balls in various designs. Two things about this:… Read more »
Spool elf
This was a very cute and simple kit.