Christmas decoration part 4

Hello again!
That´s the last part about D.I.Y. Christmas. Now only cooking and baking... but this on the other blog - harMONIcooking :)

As an addition to Chritmas trees I made small candle decorations.

The technique is similar to wreath. Base as well made from woodbine branches, just much smaller. 

 

•  Adding branches of cypress with the cones is the next step. Of course the branches need to be slightly "shaved" :)

 

•  Now only a few berries.....

•  And the whole decoration is ready

And this is another wreath i made as a present for my mother-in-law. Hope she likes it :)

Have yourself a merry little Christmas trees

Ahhhh decorations, decorations. Today almost whole day I spent making different things, including another wreath as a present for my mother-in-law (picture in the next post)

I´ve seen lately so many lovely D.I.Y Christmas trees around that I decided to make some myself - the Pinterest is sooo inspirational :) BTW my account is here: http://pinterest.com/harmonicday/

Here we go then - the instruction of making very simple little Christmas trees:

1. Most of the people use foam cones as a base, but I thought - what if I use a cardboard? It is thick enough to make a sturdy construction and at the same time you can easily pin decorations to it. The only obstacle was to roll it. But after a few minutes I learned how to do it :) The advantage of using cardboard is the possibility to make your tree as high and slim as you want.
Once you make your shape it is as easy as using scotch tape to hold it together.

2. For the next step you need pins and yarn. Pin the yarn close to the base and wrap around the shape pinning from time to time, working your way to the top.

3. Now you can use your imagination to accessorise your tree. I used little styrofoam baubles, berries, small cones and dry flowers. You can take off some of the pins you used to hold the yarn and repin them with accessories. Dry flowers don't need pins of course, they can be just tucked under the yarn.

 And that´s all. The Christmas trees are ready. I made three with different height. Unfortunately I though a bit  too late about making little holes and putting the lights inside, but I will do it next year for sure :)

DIY wreath

I always liked wreaths. The problem is in most of the shops the wreaths are full of glitter, gold and daub.I really don´t like the "made in China" style.

That´s why after seeing lots of beautiful, inspirational wreaths online I decided to make my own.

These are simple steps to make wreath. My one is in traditional colours of the season, but you can make anything you want. :)

•   For the base I used woodbine branches, they bend easily and I didn´t even need to use anything to keep them together. Simple tight wraping one around another and tucking the lose ends between the tangles do the job perfectly.

   

• When I decided the base is tick enough I wrapped a few branches of cypress, the same way as before, to give it a green touch. I didn´t use a lot of them, as I wanted to have space for baubles and pinecones

•  I used 2 colours of baubles and placed them on the base using green thread to make it less visible. The black baubles look very elegant together with my favourite deep burgundy colour.

• After all of that the last step - pinecones. They need to have a bit of branch so it´s easy to tie them up to the base.

•  For the final touch I painted parts of the pinecones with white acrilic paint to imitate the snowy efect.

And that´s all.  Simple and personal. 

Much better than the mass production from the shops.

Hope you like it! :)

after a long absence

Hello everyone!

First of all, I´m sorry for such a long silence. It has been a busy and difficult time. Lot´s of complications was growing on my way and I had to dedicate my time to remove them. I wasn´t in the mood to post here.
Hopefully now the hard time is over and I will be able to visit you more often as well as share things in here.

In the last post I published before the long silence I said I wanted to change the profile of this blog. Instead of travel blog I would like to share here the things that I do, that inspire me, that means something.
Of course I will still share some trips, but as I always do lots of different things, I would like to show them in here too.

As Christmas time is coming I am busy making some decorations around the house.
Today I´m sharing one of them.

Very easy to make:  I used

• 3 clay flowerpots (each cost only €0.50), 
• bit of white and burgundy fabrics - for the white woolly part I used sleeves of old jumper. 
• 3 pinecones
• glue and salt to make the effect of snow
• bits of a decorative ribbon
• bits of fabric to put inside to pots, so the pinecones are well fitted
• tiny bits of cottonwool which I put in between the pinecone and the pot to make snowy effect.

Hope you like it :)
More to come very soon.