Monday, December 13, 2010

Glittered felt Trees Featured on Felt-o-rama

My glittered felt Christmas trees are being featured over at Felt-o-rama today! :)
Felt-o-rama is such a great place to be inspired and find great projects to make with felt. And not only that but they sell felt too! (You all might have already known this but I first discovered the blog and then later realized they also sold felt.)  Not to long after posting my felt flower tutorial I noticed a lot of traffic on my blog coming from there. I went to the site and discovered a humongous list in the side bar full of amazing crafts to make with felt!  Mine was in the list of different felt flowers. There are so many great ideas over there, you definitely have to check it out!

New snowman sculpture

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snowman
 This little guy is now available available to purchase in my Little Lolas shop! Listing him this close to Christmas I am not sure if he is going to sell, but he is so cute that I am totally okay if he doesn't.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Our tree this year

This year we took our origami advent and hung it all over the tree. Inside are four candies for each of us ,except the baby, to eat as we countdown to Christmas. I think next year I will put scriptures and service projects in each box for a more spiritual Christmas advent. 
The snow on the tree is just one of those"snow blankets" you get in the Christmas section. We ripped it up and I put a little piece on each branch. You might notice that the snow looks worse at the bottom, that is my almost-one year old's doing. :)
My all time favorite ornaments are the scrolls with scriptures on them.  I made these seven years ago for our first Christmas after we got married, when we had no money. Seriously, all we had on the tree that year was a home made popcorn garland, one box of dollar store candy canes, because you get like ten for a dollar, and these scripture scrolls.
All I did was roll some parchment paper and wrote some scriptures in fancy handwriting. Super cheap! It's not even the affordability that makes these my favorite, it is the message they share and the spirit they bring.
Merry Christmas!