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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:50 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:52 am
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~ I like cutting shapes out of felt and decorating those with fabric paint, sequince, beads, yarn, embroidery floss, whatever. Cute little gingerbread men, pretty snowflakes, minature stockings.
You can also hang candy canes on your tree for a sweet addition.
Pomanders also rock out the hard one on trees with their GLORIOUS smell. To make one take whole cloves and jam as many in an orange as possible, with the stem sort of side in the orange and the flowery looking side out, it helps to take a needle and poke a hole first. Make sure the heads of the cloves are all touching. However leave a space to tie a ribbon at the end. Allow the orange to dry out, don't put it in anything and make sure it is nowhere moist, this helps to dry it out without getting it mouldy. If it does dry without moulding you can keep it for years and it always smells so goood. After it's dried tie your ribbon on and hang it. Apparenyly orrisroot helps it dry faster and more evenly but I've never used it myself so I can't say for sure. You can try putting it into an oven for an hour on a low temp to help dry it out. http://www.sam.hi-ho.ne.jp/basilica-design/craft/Poto/Pomander.jpg HOMG they are devine. ~
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:14 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:53 pm
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Tes ~ I like cutting shapes out of felt and decorating those with fabric paint, sequince, beads, yarn, embroidery floss, whatever. Cute little gingerbread men, pretty snowflakes, minature stockings.
You can also hang candy canes on your tree for a sweet addition.
Pomanders also rock out the hard one on trees with their GLORIOUS smell. To make one take whole cloves and jam as many in an orange as possible, with the stem sort of side in the orange and the flowery looking side out, it helps to take a needle and poke a hole first. Make sure the heads of the cloves are all touching. However leave a space to tie a ribbon at the end. Allow the orange to dry out, don't put it in anything and make sure it is nowhere moist, this helps to dry it out without getting it mouldy. If it does dry without moulding you can keep it for years and it always smells so goood. After it's dried tie your ribbon on and hang it. Apparenyly orrisroot helps it dry faster and more evenly but I've never used it myself so I can't say for sure. You can try putting it into an oven for an hour on a low temp to help dry it out. http://www.sam.hi-ho.ne.jp/basilica-design/craft/Poto/Pomander.jpg HOMG they are devine. ~
I've heard of pomanders before, but I wasn't sure what they were. It sounds like it would make my little house smell wonderful. Thanks! biggrin
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:55 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:23 am
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ForestGreen My mom crocheted snowflakes and starched them one year. The tree looked wonderful. Another thing my mom did one year was make a batch of salt dough and cut out ornaments with our christmas cookie cutters. When they were dry she painted them. http://www.20ishparents.com/holiday/salt.shtmlYou could make godseyes and hang them on the tree. http://www.makingfriends.com/godseyes.htm I use popcicle sticks that I've glued together for the frame. You could also make a paper chain with some fancy paper. I know there are more things that Mom and I did when I was young and we were really poor, but I can't remember them now.
Wow, I'd forgotten all about the paper chains I used to make in school when I was little. I used to love doing that--it was seriously the highlight of my holiday season. I think it's a great idea, and now that I'm older and have a bit of extra cash, I could do glitter designs on the paper--or I could weave the chain out of some fancy lace or trim, and bead it. Hmm.
Gawsh, this damn tree is turning out to be a lot of work. sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:03 pm
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My friend and i have have our own little tree in her room. This year, we took a bunch of little paper stars (ya know, the folded poofy ones?) and strung them together. We used sparkly paper to make them, so they were shiney and it was gorgeouse. We also put our littlest stuffed animals in the tree, which turned out cute. We made little fairies out of leaves and a little fabric last year, they were cute. We made the body out of fabric, and then actually sewed the leaves on their backs like wings. They were fairies, though they looked more like butterflies.
What i would do for the awesomest tree ever would be to just wander around looking at what you own, and how it could go on the tree. Thinking extremely outside the box makes your tree unique, and extremely memorable. Keychains, bracelets and neclaces hooked together, whatever you find and think would look cool with a little bit of light from the tree. That way, when you see those same objects later in the year, you have a little bit of christmas with you. 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:00 am
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Mikono My friend and i have have our own little tree in her room. This year, we took a bunch of little paper stars (ya know, the folded poofy ones?) and strung them together. We used sparkly paper to make them, so they were shiney and it was gorgeouse. We also put our littlest stuffed animals in the tree, which turned out cute. We made little fairies out of leaves and a little fabric last year, they were cute. We made the body out of fabric, and then actually sewed the leaves on their backs like wings. They were fairies, though they looked more like butterflies. What i would do for the awesomest tree ever would be to just wander around looking at what you own, and how it could go on the tree. Thinking extremely outside the box makes your tree unique, and extremely memorable. Keychains, bracelets and neclaces hooked together, whatever you find and think would look cool with a little bit of light from the tree. That way, when you see those same objects later in the year, you have a little bit of christmas with you. 3nodding
This is by far the best advice I've heard yet. You've given me a dozen ideas--thank you!
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:47 pm
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Volatile Rainbow Mikono My friend and i have have our own little tree in her room. This year, we took a bunch of little paper stars (ya know, the folded poofy ones?) and strung them together. We used sparkly paper to make them, so they were shiney and it was gorgeouse. We also put our littlest stuffed animals in the tree, which turned out cute. We made little fairies out of leaves and a little fabric last year, they were cute. We made the body out of fabric, and then actually sewed the leaves on their backs like wings. They were fairies, though they looked more like butterflies. What i would do for the awesomest tree ever would be to just wander around looking at what you own, and how it could go on the tree. Thinking extremely outside the box makes your tree unique, and extremely memorable. Keychains, bracelets and neclaces hooked together, whatever you find and think would look cool with a little bit of light from the tree. That way, when you see those same objects later in the year, you have a little bit of christmas with you. 3nodding This is by far the best advice I've heard yet. You've given me a dozen ideas--thank you!
No problem! I'm a poor highschool student, and have been putting up my own tree for three years now. 3nodding So i'm well aware how hard it can be to make your tree special without much money going into it.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:30 am
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:34 am
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