Not one to let the holidays fade away too quickly, let me show you decorations I spotted at the Anthropologie flagship store just before Chr...
A gorgeous free paper fidget toy to make during the winter months. Have a go at this fantastic Winter themed flextangle! Part of a set of 5.
One of the most popular gift exchange ideas during the Christmas holidays is an ornament exchange. Many co-workers, teachers, and small groups opt to exchange ornaments instead of larger, more costly gifts. There are many variations for gifting ornaments, but one fun way to do an ornament exchange is to host an ornament exchange party!
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If you’re in need of fresh ideas for this year’s Christmas fellowship or event, look no further! These 31 ideas are sure to provide some inspiration. 31 Christmas Fellowship Ideas for Your Women’s Ministry Ornament Exchange Gift Exchange Christmas Bingo – play regular bingo, with the winners receiving $5 gifts Christmas Pinterest Project Party Christmas…
These are twi files, with all the necessary parts to make a Japanese bridge, ready for you to play with or work with!. Just print it in sturdy card stock, and you're ready to go! You can download and use for many of your projects, today and in the future. These are perfect to use as a print for cards, tags, in scrapbooking, and many other uses! You MAY NOT re-sell these images as is or as your own work either in print or digital form. But you may sell a product you made using them (tags, cards, etc), just let them know where you got the images in the listing, please :-) This is an INSTANT DOWNLOAD - available right after payment, see your receipt for instructions. You will receive TWO jpeg files. This is a small file, not suitable for enlargements, but it prints well in 6x8. NO refunds on download listings. IMPORTANT: The image may vary slightly in appearance when printed. This is due to the paper quality, and/or the calibration of your printer.
🫧DIY bubbly cauldron 💗comment “SPOOKY” to get the links to the products you need sent to your DM’s! These were so fun to make! Can make them black to add to your home decor or these pastel ones would...
Using scraps of wrapping paper, you can whip up a rolled paper tree in minutes! Attach to decorative paper and insert into a frame, and voila! You're done!
today we are talking about a holiday grief activity for grieving children that I promise is cheap and simple. Now, just so we're clear, I am the WYGer who
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Handmade Christmas ornaments are easy and fun to make. Use these crafts to decorate your home for the holidays. Discover silver nature-inspired ornaments, felted animals, ribbons, rosettes, and more.
Learn how to make a six pointed English Paper Pieced EPP Star ornament using scraps of fabric or coordinated holiday fabrics.
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These glass ornaments are made by me and my family to support adoption. We feel the call to adopt from Africa and China. The proceeds from the sell of these ornaments will go directly to our adoption or adoption ministries that we give to. Each ornament has a silver colored heart shaped charm at the top that reads "made with love" and includes a hand cut red wool felt heart. (heart is not attached but simply freely put inside the ornament) One verse reads: "I will not leave you as orphans: I will come to you. John 14:18" The other reads: Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans. James 1:27a" We can use any verse you want or simply type out a custom note for you that we will put inside the globe. Please select your verse from the drop down menu :) If a custom message - choose custom message and also leave us a note at checkout with the message you want inside your ornament.
It’s always interesting to see what engages readers. Currently the most popular post on this blog is not quilt or textile related but a humble snap of some elf shoes I made from paper napkins for Christmas a few years ago. Indeed, there has been such a surge of visitors via Pinterest that it seemed […]
This post may contain affiliate links from which I will earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Click here to read my full disclosure policy. {If you want to see our Christmas home tour click HERE} I had my project today all mapped out in my head for the Jingle Mingle and was...Read More »
Explore treehouse design ideas for creating your perfect hideaway. Get expert tips on building a magical retreat in the trees. Start planning now!
Make something truly international and unique with this stunning Japanese Paper Fan Ornament! Bring pizzazz to your Christmas tree with these ornaments!
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The decorations in the Great Hall at Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are absolutely amazing - they really go all out for the yule ball
Wonderful ornament ideas for your Jesse Tree Tradition. 25 Jesse Tree Ornaments to craft for your Jesse Tree exchange (labeled days 1-25).
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Try this simple experiment to grow crystal angels, learning about solution saturation and crystallization. Easy and fun cience experiment for kids.
I posted these on instagram the other day and folks lost their everloving minds. I've tracked down the stuff you need to make them, and linked it all up here under the Straw Stars tab. You should know a couple of things before you fall too much in
Whether it’s going out to get your tree together as a family, singing karaoke “Christmas Carols” edition, or whipping up a delicious batch of the secret family eggnog recipe, everyone has their own special traditions come holiday season.One of the Esplana family traditions would be to add a new ornament to their personal family collection each year. And after losing both grandparents in the same year, this tradition is something the family made sure to keep strong. But when someone stole all of their ornaments one winter, it literally felt like a nightmare before Christmas.It was that same Christmas that Breanne Esplana and her brother John decided to reveal a hidden secret to their mother, changing the meaning of their family tradition forever.
Looking for the best Nashville Christmas events? There are many amazing things to do in Nashville over the Christmas holidays.
The Stadt Land Fluss (City Country River) game kept us busy in the backseat of the car in the days before electronic games. Today, we still play this fun word game! Learn how here.
Christmas is always a great time to have a party! What is more fun to celebrate than the birth of our Lord, J
We've had a lot of interest in a tutorial for the woven star. Thank you all for your sweet comments about these! This star is made from vintage book pages. Traditionally, this type of ornament would be made from reed, or birch bark, or wood veneer, though some crafters like to use cardboard. I think folded paper works really well -- it's more flexible than cardboard, but has enough body to hold it's shape well. The woven star is a very old traditional pattern that goes by many names. Here is a picture of a Swedish Window Star that has been in my friend's family for nearly one hundred years! Isn't it stunning? People have been weaving similar versions of the woven star for a long time. Most commonly, I see it called a Finnish Star or an Advent Star or Poinsettia or Window Star. **Important copyright information about the woven star: The woven star concept is an idea and ideas cannot be copyrighted in the US. A person can only copyright their own expression (for instance, your own words or pictures) of an idea. The idea itself is not copyrightable. For more information, see this important post about copyrights. To make your own star, locate a supply of paper. You can use anything from old grocery bags to sheet music to scrapbook paper to junk mail to old maps -- just get creative, and use what you have lying around. If you are using thin paper, you will need to fold your strips into several layers, as I will show you here. If you just don't have the patience/time/energy for that, you can achieve a similar look with cardstock, such as Vintage Chic Double-Sided Cardstock 12"X12"-Textbook 25 per pack. Just cut the cardstock into strips. I tore large sheets out of this huge vintage gardening book. This will be perfect to create a Christmas gift for my mother-in-law, who is an amazing gardener. I've already picked up several garden themed gifts for her, so this will go nicely! Each sheet was folded in half, then folded in half again, to create eight sections. These sections were then cut apart and folded lengthwise into quarters. Secure the folds with a thin bead of glue. This particular paper really needed to be four folds thick to have enough body for the star to hold its shape. Your paper may not need as many thicknesses, or it may need more. My strips are about a quarter inch wide by about eight inches long. You may want to choose different dimensions for your strips, to optimize your paper use Truly, creating the strips was the most time consuming part of this project. I created enough strips to make about a dozen or so ornaments, and it took an entire Lifetime movie on Hulu to do them. Make sure all your strips are the same length, for the best end result. Then find the center on each of two strips, and glue them at right angles to each other, as shown. If you are doing several stars, just work assembly line style. Next, add two more pieces, as shown here, alternating over and under. Glue in place and clip, using paper clips or clothes pins. Now, do the same thing in the other direction. Try to be as precise as possible, and space the strips evenly, but as you can see here, the strips are not totally straight. All the folding and gluing stretches the fibers in the paper, so sometimes you may have to fudge things a bit. The next step is probably the trickiest part of the whole project. Take two corner pieces that are perpendicular to each other and glue the tips together, overlapping one on top of the other. This example shows this step implemented correctly. The strips have to be twisted, to meet like this: Right In this picture the strips are glued together incorrectly. (Not that I would know anything about that, cough, cough) Wrong Glue all four sides in the same way. Do you see that little aluminum clothes pin? Those are absolutely the best for crafting with paper. There springs are not very strong, so they won't mar the paper, and they are not very heavy, so they don't weigh down the paper and cause it to become misshapen. The paper clips are marginally okay. I used to be able to find the aluminum clips in China Town, but all I can find are the plastic ones, now. Once you have two sides glued, you can put them together as shown here. Just turn one over on top of the other, same sides facing, but with the top one rotated 45 degrees. Now, begin to weave the remaining strips under the points you glued together previously. It may seem like the strips are too long, but resist the temptation to trim them (sorry, it's late, and I just love Pirates of Penzance)! Take the end of each remaining strip and add a drop of glue... Secure with a clip while the glue sets. First the top four points... ... then the bottom four points. While the glue is setting on your star, you can create a hanger. Take one of the extra strips and glue the ends together, as shown here. See how the points look a little sloppy where the single strip overlaps the point slightly? Just trim those points up with some scissors. Here, the trimmed star looks much nicer. Now you can glue the hanger to one of the points, and clip, as shown. Now, your star is finished. You can glitter or embellish it any way you please. You may want to glue dots on the tip of each point for a nice finished look. Here, I added a fringed rosette of tinsel and paper, to cover the bottom of the hanger. I just took a strip of paper and cut a fringe into it, then rolled it up and wrapped it in a bit of tinsel. I used Gorilla Glue for this, as it works well on nonporous materials like tinsel. Clip the rosette to the star until the glue cures. Add a bit of glitter, if you like (how can you go wrong with glitter?)... I hope you enjoyed the tutorial! Watch for the tutorials for the other two stars in the next few days. Trust me, the hard part is done! The other two stars are just adaptations of the first design. If you're not already a follower, you may want to click "follow" in my side bar, so you don't miss the other tutorials. Edit 2012: Here is yet another woven star tutorial Another style of star made from vintage book pages can be found here. Or try these honeycomb style ornaments made from vintage book pages. edit: part two of this tutorial is now available here edit: part three of this tutorial is now available here You might also like this post about how to make vintage book pendants. If you enjoyed this post, please subscribe to House Revivals in the sidebar, so you won't miss the fun projects we have planned. Find us on Facebook, too, so you can catch all the "in between" stuff, and see what I'm working on throughout week on Instagram. Feel free to link today's project to your favorite social media sites. Thanks so much for stopping by! ~Amanda
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Wow! Christmas will be here before you know it and it’s time to get crafty! I am seeing a lot of interest on Pinterest and on my blog in my tutorial on creating sheet music decorations for Christmas. Sooo...just in case you want to make your own, I thought I would show it to you again…with a few more details added. It’s super easy and very inexpensive to do! First, I tried my hand at sheet music candles. I took some vintage sheet music, found at Goodwill for about $1.00 for a whole book, and some cream pillar candles from Michaels…bought with a coupon, of course, and went to work! I simply cut the music to fit, brushed Mod Podge on both sides and attached it! I like the glossy-finished variety. Then I finished with two more coats of it and… …here is the result! What do you think? The candles should tunnel burn…down the middle…but I think I will wait until closer to Christmas to try that! For now, they will just look pretty! And they were so inexpensive to make, coming in at about $2.00 each! Woo hoo! Then I was looking at all of the little sheet music scraps when an idea was born…sheet music ornaments! I had bought a plastic sleeve of 4 ornaments for $1.00 at Target and decided to try covering those since the little hanger was already built in. I cut the music into small pieces, notching it in about half way in 3 or 4 places so that it would fit the curve of the sphere a little better. Once again, I applied Mod Podge…my new BFF!…on both sides and two final coats of it at the end. I added a bow on top and… …voilà! And since I already had the supplies I needed, these were just 25 cents each for the ornaments! Love it! And finally, you know I had to try making a sheet music wreath! I have seen so many pretty ones! I will say that it was a lot of tedious work, but fortunately, I was aided by my lovely assistant, Miss Isabella! First, I made the cones…50 to 60 made from 1/2 sheet of music, 20 or so made from 1/4 sheet of music and 10 or so made from 1/8 sheet of music. A whole sheet of music makes a big wreath so I cut mine. The wreath will be about 18 inches across when finished. You may have to adjust your cones according to the size you want. I just rolled them and secured them with matte finished tape. It’s simple to put together! Start with a foam wreath form. I found mine at Dollar Tree and cut the foam in half because it was too thick. Then I wrapped it with a strip of white fabric from my stash so that it wouldn’t show. Next, start hot-gluing the cones starting with four…one at each side…north, south east and west…then fill in in between. This is how it looks from the back of the wreath. Continue adding the cones going from the largest to the smallest. I opted for a wreath with no hole in the center…almost a kind of sheet music flower instead. I hung it on the mirror over the fireplace using a wide ribbon attached to the back. I like the way the mirror makes it look even fuller than it really is! And it only cost $1.00 for the wreath form! And there you have it…fun with sheet music! These really could be used any time of year but I am planning to incorporate them into my Christmas decor. I’ll be showing you some of that soon! Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed a little peek at my sheet music decorations! Please visit these wonderful bloggers and their beautiful blogs to see what they are up to and to find a list of this week’s participants! Under the Table and Dreaming for the Sunday Showcase Party Thrifty Decor Chick for Before and After Monday Boogieboard Cottage for Masterpiece Monday Between Naps on the Porch for Metamorphosis Monday The Stories of A2Z for Tutorials and Tips Tuesday Coastal Charm for Nifty Thrifty Tuesday A Stroll thru Life for Tabletop Tuesday Cedar Hill Ranch for Cowgirl Up! on Tuesdays My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia for Tuesday's Treasures Savvy Southern Style for Wow Us Wednesdays DIY by Design for Fall into Fall The Shabby Creek Cottage for Transformation Thursdays No Minimalist Here for the Open House Party on Thursdays Stone Gable for Tutorials. Tips and Tidbits on Thursdays Centsational Girl for the Holiday Home Craft Party My Romantic Home for Show and Tell Friday French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday 2805 for Potpourri Friday At the Picket Fence for Inspiration Friday Common Ground for Vintage Inspiration Friday The Charm of Home for Home Sweet Home Friday Craftberry Bush for Happy Hour on Saturdays Serenity Now for Weekend Bloggy Reading Funky Junk Interiors for Saturday Nite Special See you next time! A la prochaine! Want to see more? Subscribe by email or in a reader Also find Confessions of a Plate Addict on: Facebook Pinterest Twitter Hometalk
Making pomanders is a great activity to use as a meditative or devotional practice for Yule for a Solitary practictioner. But it is also a fun thing to do with children to celebrate the festive season.
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