Tuesday 13 December 2011

Handmade Christmas Decorations

On Sunday, I posted about my snowflake ornament, which at the time had no tree to be displayed upon!

We finally have our Christmas tree up, so I was able to take some decent pictures of the other ornaments I made recently :)


I made a few of these little dove ornaments using some leftover felt. They were inspired by the cute DIY Dove Ornaments I saw at Sweet Suite 10 ! Mine are much smaller and lack a proper tail or eyes, because I wanted a simpler feel to them.



This tutu ornament was made after reading Mindie's fab Tutu Ornament Tutorial over at Bacon Time With The Hungry Hungry Hypo! In addition to tulle, I used some gold mesh that was left over from a costume I made a few years back.



These star ornaments are my favourite of the ones I made this year! They were inspired by the heart-shaped Typography Ornaments that I saw on Tatertots and Jello!


I cut all the shapes with pinking shears, and wrote on the 'tags' with a regular gold pen.



Here's the snowflake ornament again, in situ (albeit temporarily). My Dad went out on Monday and dug up a real tree, which he potted up today. I nipped outside before he started the potting to snap a few photos of my ornaments! The tree is now potted up outside the front door, covered with lights :) As for the ornaments, they're safely indoors on our artificial tree--which is just as well, since we had a freak shower of hail a few hours after the pictures were taken!

7 comments:

  1. They all turned out amazing! Nicely done:)

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  2. These are lovely - such a fun and bright idea I love them! That star is just adorable
    Visiting from Carolyn's Homework
    Lowri
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  3. Love yours, thanks for the shout out too!

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  4. Sweet ornaments! I'd love for you to share them here!

    http://oneartmama.blogspot.com/2011/12/shine-on-fridays-6-and-some-fabulous.html

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  5. Love the star! I am hoping to find time to make ornament gift tags and this would be perfect! Thanks for sharing!

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  6. The stars are my favorite, too! So sweet with the stitching :)

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  7. The stars are my favourite! Love the little yellow stitches!

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Reading all your sweet comments makes me happy! :) I appreciate each and every one and try to reply to all that I can!

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