Christmas is Coming

The Best way to keep my mind off the election is too think about Christmas. Decorating for Christmas is my favorite part of the holiday, followed very quickly by having people over to eat so they can enjoy my decorating.

Each year I make at least one new thing that I add to my decorations. Needlepoint ornaments do not count as my one new thing. They are a constant. This has to be something substantial and original. It can be cheeky or serious, it can be a collection or one item, but I must make it.

This summer when I was in Maine I got a number of items that I am going to repurpose into Christmas decor. This weekend while Russ was away I made one of my new items. It was a tinsel wreath covered in wooden Christmas ornaments. It was a lot of work to find the ornaments. Used Christmas ornaments sell quickly and not on the cheep. I can only imagine what my collection is worth.

This wreath was inspired by my sparkly crafty friend Holley Broughton who is a wizard with a glue gun. I asked her advice about making this wreath and she told me that paddle wire was the way to go. She, of course was right.

I could not find a premade tinsel wreath I liked so I bought two wire wreath forms, one slightly smaller than the other and wired them together to make a big enough base. I then wound the tinsel through the wire forms before attaching the wooden ornaments.

Since it is early October I can’t hang this yet so it will live in my paper office where I might continue to add to it until Thanksgiving night when I can officially put it up.

I have a couple more projects to work on, but at least I know I have my one new item of the year ready to go.