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Don’t Let Sandy Play the Grinch – Craft New Christmas Ornaments!

Don’t Let Sandy Play the Grinch – Craft New Christmas Ornaments!

The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Superstorm (or whatever they are calling it) Sandy is sobering. But, not only did people lose their furniture, boilers, sheet rock, cars etc., they lost their memories – family photos, keepsakes and Christmas decorations.  While some things just can’t be salvaged or replaced, you can create new heirlooms.  Now we all have our favorite standbys like the tricolor bead candy canes (don’t have any? come on, you know you do!), I wanted something different so I searched my favorite site, Pinterest, for some inspiration and came up with a bunch of beautiful ornaments you can easily make (and they don’t look like something that came out of a Kindergarten classroom either).  Here are a few of my favorites:

These felt stars are easy and adorable to craft (from Purlbee) and are the epitome of the primitive look.  You could easily make them into a string garland  or incorporate them into a primitive theme (along with salt-dough ornaments below) with some burlap garland!

I absolutely adore these wood ornaments with scrapbook paper modged podged on (from Brown Paper Packages)  – another easy project:

These swirl nail polish ornaments (from Beautylish) are gorgeous:

My kids have made salt dough ornaments before and with the stamping here, they make a nice personalized ornament (from Design Editor):

 

It would be a great idea to host an ornament crafting party to make these for friends and neighbors who lost their Christmas Ornaments.  These are all fairly easy to make and you could definitely crank a bunch out over some hot cocoa (maybe with some schnapps). I hope you are as inspired as I am!

Happy crafting!

 

 

         

Tweak Your Pinterest Experience

Tweak Your Pinterest Experience

Those of you who know me are aware of exactly how I feel about the Social Media gurus who recently “discovered” Pinterest.  I have been pinning over a year now and had realized right away what a gem of an application it is. So all the BS they brought to the table about Terms of… Continue Reading

Upcycle Those Pesky Plastic Bags!

Upcycle Those Pesky Plastic Bags!

Jessyratfink at Instructables has posted a tutorial to turn those plastic bags I normally throw out recycle into a really nice basket. So start saving our environment and create some nice baskets to store your crap kids’ toys and other miscellaneous things in!   Guess where I came across this tutorial? Hmmmm….you guessed it –… Continue Reading

Ready For Some Spring Cleaning?

Ready For Some Spring Cleaning?

So the clocks “sprung” ahead this past weekend and so our thoughts turn to those of Spring…Cleaning! Does that get you excited? Yeah I know, not so much.  But, it is a good time to declutter and deep clean. Think of all the germs that have been gathering in our homes and incubating during the… Continue Reading

Pinterest – My New Fav Site!

Pinterest – My New Fav Site!

I know I am not the only internet fiend culling all of the goodies all over the web. My biggest issue (other than the only tan I get is from the LED glow of my monitor) is where to store my stash of ideas, recipes, crafts, party ideas and every other thing I think is… Continue Reading

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