Handmade Christmas

This is the first attempt at making something handmade in the way of Christmas decorations. TOTAL FAIL. I'm not sure what I was shooting for, some sort of paper wreathe I guess. As soon as I wrote "Merry Christmas", in the middle I ruined it in my opinion.Onto something else.






This is the shelves above our tv's entertainment unit. I have two large red
glass vases (from our wedding this past summer) as well as the basic red plastic candles you can find in almost every small shop here in Malta (also from the wedding) and then five smaller glass votive candle holders with red candles inside (wedding again). The two red vases and the 5 votive holders all have damask decorative tape on the fronts which was already in place from the wedding. I just placed handmade snowflakes onto some of them to add a little winter cheer.



And the last of my handmade Christmas decorations (for now) is this fun lantern. I had one plain white Chinese paper lantern left over from...yup you guessed it, the wedding, so I decided to do something in the way of a "chandelier" or at least something like that. I simply attached snowflakes in white and in blue that I had in my craft supplies, then I tied a few of the white snowflakes using white sewing thread to hang below. I think it turned out pretty nice. I'm happy with this. I hung it in the entry way of our flat from the existing light fixture. If I had more lanterns and more light fixtures in the flat (we seem to have lonely bare bulbs through out otherwise), I'd make a few more.



So that is what I have come up with so far for handmade Christmas decorations. Its not exactly what I want but at least the dog can't get at any of it! Also we stopped into the Piscopo Garden Center yesterday which is 5 minutes from our place and I saw that they had a bunch of Christmas decorations, garland etc... so I'll be making a trip back there I think for sure!