Mother daughter DAY

Christmas Tree Making...fun day w/ my girls! 🎄 #mixmedia #cardboard #bookpages #scrapepaper

Oh Christmas Tree

  

 

I wanted to share my tree with you!

  and the ornaments I've made...

 

Ornaments I made last year!

*holiday girls

*holiday houses

*cupcakes

*owls

*sheriff badges

 

 

 

Ornaments I made this year

*old shirt pom poms

*camo balls

*Mississippi maps

*cameras

 

 

 

I also pinned a few  

Instagram pictures with 

old clothes pins to the tree!

They turned out really cute, here's a few.

 

 

 

 

 

Different views...

 

 

 

Old to New

Last week I posted a picture on facebook

of a bracelet I made.

I've had several people ask

about the bracelet. So, I wanted to share

just how I made it!

 

 Take these old shirts

 

 

and make this Cute red, green and blue

Christmas bracelet...

 

 

This year while getting ready

to make a few ornaments for my Christmas tree

I knew I would use some old clothes

I saved from last year

while cleaning out closets.

I tossed the bags of clothes in the attic

 before actually taking them to Goodwill.

 

When that time came to take them,

I begin viewing the old clothes

as potential items to make something.

Not knowing what that something would be,

 not knowing when the time would be, 

 I kept the shirts, on my art shelf they went!

 

Preparing to make a Christmas ornament,

I cut long strips of all three

colors out of the backs of the shirts.

I played with those strips for a day

realizing they would make a

cute braid bracelet.

 

Only I didn't know

how I would attach the

ends of the bracelet together

to make it presentable.

 

So the next day I finally

come up with what

ornament I would make.

Doing a little research on Pinterest

I found the pom pom ornament

I envisioned making.  

(picture of ornament is later in this post)

 

Moving past the ornament making

for a moment, I was standing

in line at Hobby Lobby one day

after making my ornament

still thinking about

making a bracelet.

 

I picked up a magazine while I waited.

There it was bracelet making. See

do your homework, research, and your

sure to find your answer.

They showed how to simply sew

the ends together. Bam, there it was!

 

Off to bracelet making land

here's how I did it.

 

cut my strips out of the backs of old shirts

 

safety pinned them together attached to something,

I used my jacket in this picture. It was all

I had one day in car pool.

 

start your braid, braid as tight or loose as you like

 

 

thread your needle

release from safety pin

and sew your ends together

 

once your done cut the end off, each

strand individually.

 

 

Now here's

the

ornament I made...

 

 

I wrapped long strands, 

like the strands use to make the bracelets,

around a piece of cardboard wedging a piece

of twine between the strands and

cardboard. The twine is then tied to hold

all the pieces together. Tied tight!

Slipping the tied strands

off the cardboard

I cut the circled strands

in half!

This gives you a pom pom look!

I am very in love with

my ornaments.

It took me a time or two to perfect

how tight to wrap the strands and

just where to cut getting the look I personally

wanted.

I also tied another piece of

the twine already used to make a

hanger.

 

People often ask

how I come up with my ideas.

As far back as I can remember as a child,

I remember looking at stuff

and telling myself if I had the right materials

I could make that

or

look at stuff

and imagine making something

out of it.

 

Well this has carried on into my

adult life and I am just at a point in

my life where I am able to put this to practice.

 

I hope you enjoy!

If you make something

share it with me,

I'd love to see it...

 

P.S. this is the second time

writing this blog post. I lost the first

one some how....sad face!