Saturday 19 December 2009

Christmas Ornaments

Yesterday I finished work for the year. Yippee! The last fortnight has been one long round of rehearsals and performances ... now I have fallen in a heap! Lucky I have until Feb 5 before returning to work. Below are the ornaments I received from Simona in this years SSCS. Simona is a blogger from Croatia.

She used buttons, wooden spools and thread to make me these cute ornaments. Thanks Simona.

I made this bird for my partner, Tami, using some scraps from my tumbler quilt.
  

I sewed lots of squares to make a new pieced fabric then used a bird template in Sew Pretty Christmas Homestyle by Tone Finnanger. Turned out quite cute even if I say so myself!



On Tuesday night the Material Girls had their Christmas Dinner and exchanged ornaments/gifts. I received this lovely hanging decoration made by Bev. She told me the design is from a Nancy Halvorsen book.




The star on the back is her own addition. Very nice.


I made a Christmas Bon-Bon from a pattern by Anni Downs. These are fun and easy to make. The most time consuming part is stitching and needleturning the stitchery.




Here's a little peek at the inside contents which went home with Vicki.




Now I'm on holidays I hope to be a 'better' blogger! It's only nine days 'til my 2 year blogoversary so look out for a giveaway soon.

11 comments:

  1. Hi Christine , what a happy post so full of lovely things . Have a Merry Chritmas and enjoy your holidays !

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  2. It's all so pretty....but little birds are really lovely!!!
    Merry Christmas...
    Grazia

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  3. Love that little bird Christine it's lovely,your bon bon looks a tad tempting :-)

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  4. cute ornaments for the tree - I would not have thought to make anything out of empty spools of thread.
    Karen
    http://karensquilting.com/blog/

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  5. Love the little bird you made. Think I'm going to have to make some of those bon bons for next year. They look great. Enjoy your holidays!

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  6. Love your birds Christine.... too cute!!! :o)

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  7. lovely ornaments sent and received.........enjoy your holidays...........

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  8. Such sweet little things you've done...so cute.
    Happy Holidays to you.

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  9. What great ideas for Christmas. I love your Christmas bonbon and the little bird.

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  10. Oh I just love homemade ornaments. These are delightful. Thanks for sharing.

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  11. Hi Christine--what lovely gifts you got from friends and what great gifts you made for your friends. I have the Toni book so I need to get some of her things made--I just love her stuff--and I love Anni things--which book or pattern did you get the Bon Bon from??? Happy Holiday week--Hugs, Di

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Thanks for taking the time to comment. I appreciate your thoughts.

Christine