Homemade Ornaments

We’re onto some fun ornaments to make with the kids.

Now I saw these Candy Cane Reindeer a few years back.  An engineer at my old company made them for his friends at work.  No sadly I wasn’t one of the lucky ones.  Yup not bitter about that or the baby blanket his wife made for the engineers that had new babies but not this assistant .. lol.  These are super fun and easy to make with the kids.  REALLY you can pick everything up at the dollar store.

I made these Snowmen Handprint Ornament last year and I loved how they turned out that I want to do them every year. This year the kids moved there fingers so my snowmen were a little on the thin and then fluffy side … lol.

And for the last ornament I found this Cinnamon Applesauce Holiday Ornament that were a not as fun as I thought to make … hehe.  I’m honest they were kind of a pain.  They smelled good and are cute but my applesauce sucked up cinnamon like a sponge.  Now the gal I got the recipe from had the whole ornament with glitter.  I emailed asking how she got it on, I should have frazed it did you bake it with glitter or after. hehe she sent me and email back with just the word Glue. HEHE she so thought I was dumb.  So for you who want to know after they are baked you can glue.  I found glitter glue at the dollar store and we bedazzled from there.

Wow so there you have it some fun things to do with the kids!

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Craft Wednesday!

Ok so I have all our Christmas pictures and weekend pictures ready to go but of course I waited too late and now I'm tired ... lol. So I give you a taste of some of the homemade gifts I made for the family. Now I heard threw the grapevine that one person thought that a homemade gift wasn't enough for another person, which really hurt but I decided that they are who they are and will always think what is done is not enough, so here is my best :) take it or leave it.

I found this awesome gift on Ain't She Crazy

Snowmen Handprint Ornament

Take an ordinary ornament of any color.

1) Slather the kid's hand with white paint.

2) Make a hand print on the ball, fingers pointing towards the top (where the hook is). This may be obvious, but I have to mention that it is important that they do not move their fingers once they are on the ornament. If they do, you will be on your own as to how to make those smudges into cute little snowmen keepsakes.

3) When the paint dries, begin adding details to turn the fingers into snowmen. There will be 5, in case you were wondering.

4) Make eyes, buttons, and scarves...whatever you like.

5) I added little asterisks snowflakes for kicks.

Had to make Jake a Stocking :)

Homemade gifts for the family!

Happy Wednesday everyone sorry a short and sweet post today :).