My last ornament post! Phew!
This one should really barely even count as an ornament post since it’s hardly a tutorial. But I figure that Martha has done demonstration after demonstration on how to glitter something, so maybe I should point it out as an option.
I went to the dollar store early in my planning, and scooped up anything that fit my theme, knowing that it didn’t matter what it looked like as long as the shape was recognizable. Everything looks good under glitter.
I mean, aren’t these birds just the mangiest looking things ever? With those creepy bulbous eyes?
But covered in glitter they give me a really great punch of color.
This is the lone mammal on the tree, done before I thought about the implications of that. I tell myself that this is fine because the scale is so off, and because I’m a maniac and no actual animals were harmed in the making of this tree.
I cut this deer out of fun foam, just like I did last year’s snowflakes and this year’s bats. It’s just a great technique. Then I covered it in glue, and poured glitter all over it.
Here’s a simple pattern for any last minute ornaments. Just click on the picture to get to flickr, click on “all sizes” and then download the original side.
There. Woodland tree accomplished! Eventually I’ll address a tree skirt, I always put that part off, but for this year I am completely out of time for fussing with decorations. I’m still frantically making presents.
And by the way. If I cave again next year and decide to make a scrapbook for someone? Please. Please, dear readers. Someone smack me around until I come to my senses.
