I got the striped clay working this time, but there was a lot of contamination (red clay gets all over every surface and tool and white clay picks it up so easily) so I only got one sort-of-OK candy cane out of it before giving up. That’s the flat one in the upper, left-hand corner…. Read more »
Posts Tagged: Christmas
Pipe cleaner ornaments
We saw these at a museum gift shop and I said, oh just pipe cleaners and styrofoam balls and glue. I can make those. Of course, it was harder than it looked. The difficulties are: 1. keeping the lines straight and 2. not getting glue all over everything. If you needed a license to operate… Read more »
Clay ornaments
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… Read more »
Christmas Tree Skirt
Finally! I bought this kit about four years ago. I didn’t have anyone to make it for (my mother made my own tree skirt) but it was so beautiful I couldn’t resist it. Then my friend Sheila’s tree skirt got ruined in a cat/tree accident and I started it for her. This was all year… Read more »
Holiday bowls
Can you say obsessed? I started working with my stash of holiday fabric. This is the basic square pattern but I made it smaller. The size called for in the book makes a pretty big bowl. I ran out of the gold thread I was using so this one has a different color thread along… Read more »
Clay snowman
This was made from polymer clay. The basic shape was formed using a cookie cutter and then embellishments were added.
Ornament toppers
Three more ornament toppers crocheted with thread from a leaflet. I’ve also made the snowman. I think that elf’s a little demented looking.
Quilled elf ornaments
These were made from The Book Of Paper Quilling which has a nice variety of patterns. I found that I had to use bigger quills to duplicate her work. The elf on the left was made from 2″ quills which is what the book called for but that was making for tedious, cramped work. The… Read more »
Snowman ornament topper
This was my first attempt from Ornament Toppers. It came out OK except the embroidered face is a little crooked. I’m bad with anything freehand. You have to imagine that it’s on top of an ornament because I was mailing this to someone and it was easier to mail without the ornament (which gets glued… Read more »
Polymer clay cookie cutter ornaments
These I think came out just adorable. For my first efforts with polymer clay I decided to start with stamping shapes out with cookie cutters, seeing as I’m not that artistic. The books make it sound awfully easy to make characters – just make a ball, now add a square, etc. But experience tells me… Read more »