As I’ve mentioned once or twice, I really only kept a few of the original ornaments for this tree. I have a big bag in my garage full of all kinds of messy purple stars and frayed hot pink temari…
Family Photos in our Traditions Tree
The ideas behind this Family Traditions tree are pretty common sense. What are some objects that say family? Hearts, monograms, and of course, family photos. Bear also suggested links in a chain, so I think I’m going to incorporate that…
Paper Ornaments for the Family Traditions Tree
In the back of my mind I’ve been wanting to redo this tree for years. But the first batch of ornaments took me so dang long, and I always had some other goal that needed attention, so year after year…
Monogrammed Ornaments
I had planned to spend today sharing some of the more basic ornaments and giving an in depth look at the tree, but it is pouring rain down here in San Diego and so it is not a day for…
Family Traditions Tree
For Atti’s first Christmas, I got a little carried away and decided that everything needed to be just so. This is what has become of our first tree. The tree that used to be full of all the ornaments I…
Gift Tags for 2008
As I’ll begin showing you tomorrow, I’ve completely revamped our usual Family Traditions tree, and since I was all kinds of excited about it, I had to keep the love going and make the gift tags for this year match…
My Christmas decorating manifesto
Let’s wrap up this snowfall tree, shall we? So earlier this year I showed you the garland for this tree, we’ve covered fancying up existing ornaments, I shared the quilled snowflake, the polymer clay ornament, and the beaded snowflake, and…
Beaded Snowflake Ornament
These were some of the original ornaments I made nearly ten years ago for our first Christmas tree. Like most of my best ideas, they needed to be cheap, easy to make in quantity and make a big impact on…
The Humble Polymer Clay Ornament
I think there are two types of ornaments. The stunners that look beautiful on a hanger, and the workhorses that look beautiful on a tree. Today’s ornament is a definite workhorse. When I was contemplating a snow themed tree, I…
Quilled Snowflake Ornament
Today I have a big fat tutorial to share with you. It looks really really scary and detailed, but it’s not so bad. Trust me. I’ll hold your hand through the whole thing. I’ve made a ton of these over…