ribbon chain tutorial

 

Ribbon chains are just like the old fashioned

paper chains but made with ribbon.

These are so easy to make and the kids can help too. 

 

 

Grab some ribbon in at least two colours but of

course you can have as many colours as you like.

 

 

Cut them with pinking shears so

they don't fray, to the same length.

Then just loop them and secure them by stapling them.

 

Hang them on your tree

or drape them around the room.

 

The easiest but prettiest decorations ever!

 

I think I'll pop these Under the Christmas Tree

on Sunday , will you be joining in?

round and round we go

 

I found a big bag of these at my local Vinnies.

 

They were too good to leave behind.

 

So I used some scrap wool to crochet around them.

 

Now I have a bit of a head start on Christmas decorations.

 

When do you start making your decorations?

 

What have you re-made from supposed junk?

 

What have you been up to?

jingle bells

 

jingle bells

 

jingle bells

 

jingle all the way

 

oh what fun to have a jingly jangly tree hey!

just a quickie

 

Things have been a little frantic around here lately

so I thought I'd pop in and say hi and show you

a very quick and easy decoration that you can do for Christmas.

 

Simply wrap some coloured thread around jars

 and drop in a tealight.

I used baby food jars and battery operated tealights

because I don't like/won't use candles of any sort.

 

I have found a stash of baby food jars that I will be using

for Christmas crafts so I will show you more in a

couple of days , I hope you can come back then.

 

 

we all fall down

 

My favourite part of Christmas is the decorating.

 

These old, old Christmas trees of mine have seen better days.

Each year I drag them out and each year when they're not falling

over they just look very uninspiring.

I have had these daggy trees since I was a tiny thing

so I couldn't really get rid of them and I could have

sprayed them but then they wouldn't be the same.

 

I just gave them a very good dust and popped them into

some jars I had and poured some rock salt in the base.

This has kept them the same and stopped them falling over

but now they look really pretty sitting on a mirror.

 

I can't wait till I can start decorating for real!

When do you start?

knock knock

 

I had the morning off .

 

 

I knew that I had to do some housework but

really I couldn't be bothered.

 

So I combined cleaning and craft and

covered the dirty door with paper doilies ..

win , win !

 

Even the cat was impressed .

 

I just used paper doilies and double sided sticky tape .

The trick is to use small pieces of tape and secure it on the frilly

edges so you really can't see it even from the outside .

tidying up my balls

 

I've been known to be a little crazy about my Christmas lights .

Each year when it's time to take my 1000s of solar lights down

I give them a dust off , remove the battery and wrap each set

carefully in their own bag which is then labeled coloured or white.

 

This fussiness has never extended to the inside house decorations

or really inside the house at all anywhere.

 

Last year I started to address this by threading some of the balls on

a thin piece of ribbon when I packed them away .

It didn't take long before it grew ..

 

and grew

 

and grew .

 

 

Now when you walk in the front door you can't miss this

 

and if you look up when you sit in my husband's chair you see this

 

and if you so happen to walk past the loungeroom you see it like this .

 

I never knew getting organised could make me this happy !