These look beautiful on a mantle or table.  Choose words that are meaningful to you. 

What you need:

Glass vases with  straight sides

• Translucent paper
• Candles
• Computer and printer

  What you do:

• Before you start, make sure your paper will wrap around the vase with a small overlap.

• Choose your words and on your computer, choose a variety of fonts to repeat.  (We used 3 to 5 different fonts.)

• Print our your page

• Let dry

• Wrap around vase and secure with double-sided clear tape or a pretty sticker

• Add candles and arrange with some greenery and ornaments at the bases

Wishing Tree

Start a wonderful tradition at Christmas, Hanukah or Kwanza for your family. After the small tree is assembled, have each family member write their wishes, hopes or dreams for the New Year on colorful strips of paper! 

What you need:

• Colorful copy paper (red/green, blue/white, red/green/yellow) cut approximately 1/2" x 6" long
• Scissors
• Pen/pencils
• Ribbon
• Tags (optional)

 What  you do:

• Curl the strips up and place inside the glass ornaments. You may add a tag with each family member’s name or leave anonymous. 

  The colors of the paper are the decorations along with a pretty ribbon. 

Velvet Stamp Ornaments

So elegant and so easy.

What you need:

• Velvet (synthetic blends work best)

• Iron

• Stamps

• Spray bottle with water

• Scissors

• Sewing machine

• Ribbon

• Fiberfill

What you do:

• Cut velvet to fit your stamps with enough excess to sew around all sides.

• Turn iron on to hot setting.

• Place stamp with stamp side up.

• Place velvet with soft side down to be in contact with stamp.

• Spray the back side of velvet with water.

• Place the iron firmly on stamp and leave for approximately 15 seconds.  Peek to see if it has made an impression before you lift up material completely.  If impression is not visible, heat longer.

• Sew sides together to make little pillows, leaving a 1” to 2” opening to put in fiberfill. 

• Close opening by hand sewing.

• Hand sew ribbon for hanging.