These were my salvation when I quit smoking. I’d already gotten into painting and decorating with glitter these plain white plaster ornaments that are sold in craft stores everywhere around Christmas-time. I realized that I could work on them for hours without hardly thinking about smoking, so when I quit I spent a lot of… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Christmas
Quilled snowflake ornaments
My first tries at quilling, done from a kit last Christmas. Quilling turned out to be something I really enjoy and now I have a drawer full of strips of paper in various widths and colors. There were eight designs altogether.
Beaded Christmas kits
These were made from those cheap kits they sell around Christmas time with beads and wire. You just string on the beads and twist. I enjoy making them but they don’t always keep their shape very well so that circles become oblong and stars don’t have sharp edges (as you can see here). Perhaps some… Read more »
Spool elf
This was a very cute and simple kit.
Decorated balls
Angel ornaments
These were from a kit. They were all supposed to be blond and angelic but I got bored. They’re hard to photograph too.
Applique felt ornament
I made a Christmas tree skirt for my mother from a kit out of pieces of felt appliqued and then highlighted with embroidery and sequins. It was slow, painstaking work since I sewed each piece on (some people might glue them). The skirt was printed with design all the way around, so that you did… Read more »
Sequined ornaments
These were made from various kits. They’re simple to do but somewhat paintful on the fingers as you attach the sequins with straight pins that have to pushed into the styrofoam form.
Shrinky-Dink ornaments
I call them shrinky dinks but they’re not really. They’re made by putting small plastic beads into a pre-formed metal outline. Then they’re baked in the oven so the beads melt into something that looks like glass. These were actually really tedious to make. Getting the beads piled up to just the right height so… Read more »
Mrs. Claus crewel work
This was only of the earliest pieces I ever made. It was pretty tricky with a huge section of turkey work (the wreath) and those bullion stitches.