My Wishes

As this year comes to a close I want to wish all my friends a very “Merry Christmas” .

 

May the Lord bless you in many ways.

 

 

~ Amelia ~

Cricut Machine – another use

 

I keep trying to think of ways to use my Cricut machine – other than scrapbooking layouts.

 

The following pictures show the latest project.

 

In order to use the paper I had I needed something that  gave thin paper some body and to give a sheen to the paper. Answer to this problem – cover the paper with clear adhesive paper (brand name as we know it – Contact paper). Had to make some extra settings to the Cricut to cut it properly. I had a new Christmas cartridge that I was wanting to try out – there were a couple of cuts I wanted to try on it.

 

Last year I had bought (after Christmas) a couple of boxes of the gold chargers – not knowing what I would do with them – as I don’t use them  on the table-  guess we are not “fancy” enough. Anyway, I thought one would work as a Christmas display unit on a easel type stand. Here are the results:

This is in one corner of the kitchen.

Still had some ideas churning around in my head – why not put some cut outs on candles – to spruce them up a notch or two.

 

Got out  some old candles that had not been used in the current decorating whirlwind for Christmas. Of course, had no idea if the plan would work – or where I would put them if the plan produced something useable.

 

Added some ribbon to the middle one for an extra pop.

The one in the middle is silver – but the flash sort of destroys the true color.

Trying to get the paper to stick to the candle proved to be a difficult task…used several different methods – none were real successful. The above candle was a stinker – don’t know why – so had to go to another plan. Being in the sewing room for these craft designs I spotted my straight pins that have different colored heads. I picked out the white ones ….cut part of the pin off and then used the rest to hold the cutout in place….sort of adds still another dimension to this.     

 

This might be an idea to use different cutouts for the different seasons – who knows!

 

 

 

♥ Amelia ♥

Christmas 2010 Decorations

At this point in time I feel like all the decorations as complete – can not think of anything I plan on changing. Now don’t hold me to that statement  - because I could get a wild idea and have to try it.

 

These pictures are inside only. We do have some things going on outside – mainly just lights…nothing out of the ordinary – just what can be done easily – with no major ladder climbing. Hopefully, I will get some pictures of them.

Lots of pictures – and that is not all of them.

 

     

Odd Combination

Check out my other blog for an odd-different-strange combination of two items I used in my Christmas decorating.

 

Those two items were:

 

coffee filters

 

and

 

kosher salt.

 

Head over there and see what resulted.

 

http://decoratingmystyle.blogspot.com/

 

How is your decorating progressing?

 

Amelia

Getting ready…

 

Usually when I start the Christmas decorating I drag out the totes. try to decide what will go where, create something to fill a spot and so on…this seems to take forever. This year I am trying to take a different approach. By this, I mean to get started earlier on some of the creative (yes, that is a funny)  aspects of wreaths, small trees, flower arrangements, etc. Not wanting to spend a lot of money (who has any to spare anyway) I wanted to use what I had – but perhaps in a different way than before.

 

I wanted to make some different flower arrangements using the many poinsettias I have collected over the years.Decided the small soup tureens I collect needed to be used for something – in stead of just collecting dust on the shelves. Packed the lids away – started inserting flowers, etc to come up with an arrangement.

 

Had several wreaths that were old – I mean old – decorated before I became Leon’s wife. I was so tired of the way they looked…so had not used them the last several years. Stripped them down to the bare greenery – started anew! Used a little of this and a little of that. Some of them I like better than others – but at least they are all different that what they had been.

 

As with all my creating – I enjoy the fun in it.

 

Here are some pictures of the “Creations”. Of course, I think they will look better as part of the Christmas decorations – than they do now just hanging/sitting in the sewing/craft room.

I really  like this glass glitter on these items – seems to make them look so “rich”. 

The balls on this look copper in color – but are really gold.

I decorated a couple of trees – this one with the red flower and another one with a gold flower. I plan on using them on the mantel – of course, along with lots of other items. As you know, this is subject to change, once the actual decorating begins all bets are off as to where I will place this or that.

 

All the Christmas totes will come out of storage next week and the decorating will commence!

♥Amelia♥