November 10 - Circle Ornaments

These ornaments are circles that have 3 sides folded in and glued together and I love them! I have found 3 versions of the same ornament. This first one looks like it is made out of scrapbook paper or could be made out of cards. Cute in a vase or on a tree. This version is from the Bo Bunny Site and is made from scrapbook paper with a little bobble on the end and cute ribbon to hang it up.

This version is from BHG and photo's have been added.

I am making mine from scrap book paper and making them smaller to fit on a shorter tree. They are fun!

November 9 - Ice Scicles

Aren't these darling ornies! I love them. I don't know where their source is, if these belong to you, please let me know!

November 8 - Felt Star

Tomorrow is Sunday and I might not make it on here to post anything so it is going on today.

Felt is so fun to work with! This is actually a pattern from an advent set, but it makes a great ornament. It is also on my peppermint tree.

All I did was cut out a star, blank stitch around the edge with red and add a button to the middle, fast, fun, a great movie project!

November 7 - Crochet Doilies

I did not actually make this doily. My grandmother did. It is lbeautiful. I had quite a few pieces of her work and I got them all out winter and added them by color to whatever holiday they matched and am displaying them all through the year. This little doily makes a lovely ornament. She died in 1967ish and it was made long before that, so it is very vintage!

November 6 - Mod Podge Ornies

Mod Podging is one of the greatest things to do! It is so relaxing and you can create to your hearts content! This ornie is mod podged with red and white Christmas fabric and goes on my peppermint tree.

Last year I also mod podged some ornies with pieces of an old sheet of my grandmothers that was from the 40's for my ancestor tree. That sheet had tiny pink roses the balls are enchanting!

This year I am mod podging some glass balls in bright red, yellow and teal for a New Mexico tree.

Materials needed: Glass or old balls, fabric cut into small pieces with straight or zig-zag scissors, tissue paper or scrapbook paper scraps, mod podge.

Instructions - dip your material in the mod podge and let the mod podging fun begin! Cover your balls with the fabric or paper, let dry and add a bow if you want, you are done!

P.S. - I hooked my balls on a clothes hanger and let them dry overnight.

November 5 - A Few Snowman Gift Ornies

I babysit my grandsons one day a week and today is that day! I decided on those days through November, I will show some ornaments that have been gifts to me.

This is from my friend Rhonda. This is an ornament made with a tile and a snowman rub on. It has a pearl border with a white satin ribbon for the top to hang it with. It also haswite ribbons hanging from the lower point of the tile square. The back is covered with felt.
This is from my friend Ann. He is made from felt with a black balnket stich around the edge. He has 3 buttons sewn on along with a button heart.. He has a fabric scarf that is about 1/2 inch wide, french knot mouth, pom nose and googley eyes. His hat is also made from felt with a sprig of holly and a gold sparkly pipe cleaner for embellishment.

This is also from my friend Ann. It is a quilted sewn square. The snomwn is a print from fabric. A bell is sews on the bottom corner.

This is from my friend Dana. He is a wooden painted ornie with a wire hanger that also has stars painted and glued on.

November 4 - Grandchildren's Tree Ornies

I added 2 tree's to my "Grandchildren Forest" this year. We had 2 babies born in August, so we get 2 new tree's. These are some ornies I am working on for those tree's. Pix posted as soon as camera card is replaced.

November 3 - Button Snowman

Our darling daughter made these for the same exchange I am in. They are cute snowmen made from a stack of white, black and red buttons...aren't they so cute!

You need 15 white button in gradual sizes, 1 red button, 4 black buttons - one big, 3 the same size. You also need 1/2 black pipe cleaner and orange foam for the nose.

String the buttons in gradual sizes to make the snowman shape on the black pipe cleaner. Add a foam triangle for the nose near the top. Then add big black button, red button for hat ribbon then the last 3 buttons for the top of the hat. Fold the remaining pipcleaner to a loop to hang it with.

November 2 - Bird Ornaments

Today I made Bird Ornies out of scrapbook paper for an exchange I am in. They turned out so great! I want to make a whole tree with these ornies!

You need two kinds of paper, chipboard, glitter, and ribbon.

I used a clip art program and found a bird body I liked.

Trace your body pattern onto chipboard and trace it on one of the papers too. Glue them to the chip board and then cut a slit in the middle of the bird about 1/2 down from the top of the back of the bird body.

Punch holes along the edge and cut the edge with fancy scissors. Then accordian fold the 6 inch square paper and stick it through the slit for wings.

Then I added ribbon, glitter, etc to embellish - I always feel like I am about in the 2nd grade when I glitter - I love it!

Here are a couple of the finished ones:

Did Someone Say Christmas? Christmas 2009 ------> Tree Plan's

I am getting all excited when I think about Chirstmas coming up in, I think it is 114 days! WOO HOO. That means decorating starts really soon.

1 - I am adding 2 of course to my grandchildren's forrest.

2 - This year while deep cleaning I found all kinds of treasures that our children have made me over the years and decided to make a tree using them for ornaments, it will be my "Treasures of the Heart" tree. Hearts will be the main shape and base ornaments, I have lights from Valentines that will work great on it and then trim all the objects with hearts and put them on heart shapes. I already found a tree at a garage sale for this, so I am ready to rock and roll!

3 - I would like to add several international tree's for the places each of our children served their missions, but this year it will all be on one tree to make my international tree, still thinking about a name.

4 - Still thinking about others

Did Someone Say Christmas? Christmas 2009 ------> I Need Wreaths!

It is time to start thinking about Christmas Decorations for this year. I have been evaluating my Christmas decor from last year and I have notes to myself that I need more wreaths. My plans are to add one to each door.

These are the wreaths I would like to work on:
(I will add pictures when I get these done. )

• Our room - Angel Wreath
• Studio - Peppermint Wreath
• Guest room - International Wreath
• Laundry room - Laundry Christmas Wreath
• Downstairs - Nativity Wreath
• Downstairs - Burgandy and Lime Wreath

Wreaths I have: Snowman Wreath for Snowman Land, Poinsettia Wreath, Woodland Wreath, Santa Wreath, Winter Wonderland Wreath.

Last year I also had a bunch of Santa's that were tiny and I didn't know what to do with them so I decided to put them in a wreath and I love it! It hangs on our bathroom door. You can see the Santa tree from that spot and it ties it all together. I found a cute little sign that says "Santa's Wish List" that just finished it.

Here are a few of the pictures. My darling daugher made me these to use. Right now this one goes in the next to the Woodland Tree. It is a woodland wreath. It has birds on it and so does the Woodland Tree.

This is a poinsetta wreath that she also made. I put it in the entry room. The colors are perfect for in there.

My darling daughter is a custom designer and creates wonderful wreaths of all sizes and themes.

***Storage Tip - I hang the wreaths on hangers to store them. When I pull them out there are all fluffy and ready to hang up.

Christmas 2008---------> Welcome to our Home!

Merry Christmas from our house to yours!

It has been snowing for 5 days, so it is all snowy and beautiful.

You don't need to knock!

Just come right in.

This is our LR from the entry way as you walk in the front door. Straight ahead is the piano and LR tree's. to your right is the entry which leads into the other part of the house. If you look to the top of the picture - you can see the mistletoe!

Please come in and share a cup of hot chocolate with us. You actually have a choice you can add peppermint, caramel syrup or rasberry and a scoop of vanilla ice cream to make a yummy treat to share. Lots of cookies are here on our treat table. (More deatils on that and other family fun for Christmas added daily for the next week on http://bucketideasforgrandmas.blogspot.com/

You can see the tree tour of my friends tree's at the bottom of the blog. There are garland ideas too. So happy you are here!

Piano & Nativities

This is the piano at night. Our white natvity is in the middle with the stacking plate centerpiece on the left and a jar full of ornies and miniature nativity on the right.
I have a nativity collection and that collection is scattered all over the house. This is 2 of them.

Stacking Tray Centerpiece

Filled with all the leftover white decor things.

Tiny nativity under a bell

Nativity from Isreal Made From Olive Wood

Nativities from Granada (aunt) , Bolivia (dd#1) , Mexico (f&m inlaw) and a friend in Wisconsin

Nativities from Russia (dd #2), New Mexico (son) , Lithuania(dd #3) , Costa Rica (dd#2) , glass (dd#1), the Salt Lake Airport (dd#1) and my dad. The carved one my dad put a down payment on in Sept of 1992. He passed away in March 1993. The man who made the nativity called me in September of 1993 and asked if I wanted the nativity my dad had made a payment on. He knew my dad had died and knew my dad had planned to give that to me for Christmas. Of course I did! It is a special piece that I dearly love.

Corn Husk Nativity

Classic Beautiful Nativity

Nativity in Entry Area by front door from DD #2 (

Jim Shore Nativity above computer

Nativity in Bathroom - my husband bought for me when we were first married and very poor!

I love this little nativity.

NAtivity from DD #4 - I love it!

Mantle Living Room

This is the mantle in our living room. It is the first thing you see. I did it with quite a few less candles than last year, (see picture at top of blog.) We have stockings we hang when it is Christmas Eve. We live in Idaho and so we do build fires which aren't stocking friendly.

Close up picture

Hearth Jars

Filled with left over clear and silver ornaments, crocheted snowflakes, metallic shred, silver stars, pearls, silver ribbon, tulle and snow.

Our White Tree

This is the same tree from about the same angle that is in the picture at the first of the blog. Isn't it amazing how different it looks with different colors on it? During the Day
This is at night - you really can't see it in the pictures but this tree is spectacular!Topper - bows with ting tings Close up of nativity ornament

Close up of snowman ornament

Close up of huge snowflakes, that are all over in the tree.

Close up of Angel. This is a tree topper, but the tree is too tall, so I tucked her in the branches