Taking a break from fashion to share a fun family activity we did over Thanksgiving and how you can recreate and do the same! The Supplies: Satin Balls Beads Pearl Beads (small, medium, large) Glass Colored Beads Pins Thin gold and silver Colored balls on top (also here) Ribbon Sequins (also here) Tassels (short and long) Thimble Starting Out: Gather inspiration from online or vintage ornaments Organize your supplies (we used cupcake tins for the sequins) Start pinning -- just place your sequins/beads/ribbon where you want it to go and pin it down. The top and bottom of the satin balls are a little more dense but you just need to find the perfect angle to push them in Remember to use your thimble! My family and I made these over Thanksgiving and we had a blast with these! It started because I was looking for ornaments and came across this ornament that I love. But for $39 I thought -- psshh! I could do that myself! -- and so I did. I've always loved and admired my great grandmas ornaments and overall the ornate beading and detail of other vintage ornaments we have so I decided it would be a fun family activity for us all to do together over Thanksgiving break. So we sat down for about 11 hours and made these ornaments. I won't lie to you -- these take a long time. I would say an hour or two per ball depending obviously on how many pins and how much detail you go in to. It was a lot of fun planning them out and really you just start pinning a pattern down then adding something else then doing another thing and by the end you have something really fun and unique! I love having these on the tree now and remembering the fun times we had making these! Below are some of the ones I took home: And heres our mini tree where we were hosting the finished products:
