This year I finally had the chance to do all handmade ornaments. It was really quite simple in thought but took a lot more work that I was expecting.
We decide to stick with a red, white and silver theme for all of our decorations. I wanted to go with blue, white and silver but Matt loves red :)
I had left over basic ball ornaments from last year and decided I was going to decorate all of them. No ornament is the same on our tree! Well ok that is slightly a lie. I have 3 plastic ornaments with bells in them and then 4 tinsel stars, but other than that all of them are different!
This first one is something I found online. You buy the clear plastic ornaments from a craft store, wash them with alcohol, and then drip paint down the sides. The first time I didn't read the directions correctly and didn't wash them. The paint just globed, not good. But I was able to save it. I washed it out, even with the paint in it and it turned out like this!
This is another ornament that I did. It was really simple. I just used a paint brush, dipped it into some Mod Podge and then poured the glitter over top. I made lots of ones like this, they were definitely the easiest but I actually think the prettiest as well.
The other main type of ornament was again using the blank balls and then I used glitter puff paint to create designs on them. This was the hardest one actually, I don't have quite the steady hand I once did. But they still turned out well.
Here is a pic of the whole tree, sorry my camera just couldn't get a great pic of the tree! With all the lights on it looks much more full as well.
I also did the mantle. I painted the word "Peace" and spray painted some glitter on them. I then hot glued them to stocking holders on the mantle. I used the P, A and E to hold up the garland on the mantle and then left the E and C for our stockings, which I still need to make.
Overall the decorating was a ton of fun! Next year I think I'm going to go with the blue, silver and white tough. Just to try something different. Then I can switch off each year :)
