Christmas Decorations & Happy Holidays

With Christmas nearly here I thought I better show you an image of the finished Origami Christmas Tree. I just don’t have the time to edit the photos and write up a tutorial just now, but promise to have it up after the silly season is over. At least you will have an early start making your own for next year. ;)

I also plaited three filled tubes of fabric to make a simple wreath. The little ornament at the bottom was purchased from KMart to finish the wreath off. I did consider making a bow and hot glue it onto the wreath. The problem was finding the colour ribbon that I needed, so decided to go with the welcome Santa at the base. I was rather pleased with the result.

I would also like to take this opportunity to wish you, my wonderful blog readers, a Merry Christmas and if you don’t celebrate Christmas, Happy Holidays!

Cheers to you all!

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Flop Containers

Because I wanted to keep the Shopping Bag Tutorial together, showing you these Flop Containers has been delayed. Also they are gifts to my kids with homemade biscuits inside them to make a little more for their Christmas presents from me. Now they have been unwrapped, I know I am not letting any secrets out. ;)

Well what a disappointment :(….. I thought I had taken photos of the gifts ready to wrap up but must have forgotten. Thankfully I did take photos at the time I had sewn the containers up.

To be a little different to what I have seen on the Internet, I decided to use a loop with button on the corners. The corners are more 'relaxed' done this way instead of using ties but I rather like it. Makes storage a little easier when packed away in a cupboard compared to the sewn up corners as well.

My problem was finding large buttons, as I don't have a store close to me and I was running out of time. The light bulb lit up during the night when I was supposed to be sleeping and the idea of using stuffed yo-yo's popped into my head. This is the result from that idea. I used a 1.2 inch (30mm) diameter yo-yo maker, as you see in the image below then decorated them with a red button.

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