Poor ol' Thanksgiving....I always feel so sorry for this holiday when
I see Christmas trees sparkling in the stores
before all the Halloween candy is even finished!
What about you, Glitterinas?
I love Thanksgiving!
I enjoy planning our family's
big meal and a fun game or two....
I like to shop for all the yummy
food we'll eat....
I love preparing all the food....I make a
chart for the week of what I'll make on which day.
Please don't judge.....I love a good list!
I also LOVE Christmas!
Everything about it, basically.
Even more so since I've retired and
have a much more flexible schedule.
A friend gave me a wonderful
Mary Engelbreit Santa picture that she
had, knowing I'd want it.....she's a
keeper, that one!
I put it upstairs on my arts & crafts desk
and promptly forgot about it.
Well, there it sat for a while....
.....and then one day I decided what I wanted to make out
of dear ol' Santa's cute face......
.....a hanging sign.
Even though it's not
Thanksgiving yet, I'm going to share my
sign with you....
....it's Christmas-y and I love it!
So please forgive me, if you can,
Glitterinas, for getting a bit
ahead of the calendar!
Here we go....
How cute is he?!
I trimmed up the picture and decided to mount
it on red foam and then again on black foam.
I used some small, clear sticky
squares to mount the paper on
the first layer of foam.
These little squares stick like crazy.....and hold
on tight!
Place them on.....and then peel off the
square of paper on them....
.....position them carefully because there is
NO moving the paper after they have touched
what your fastening them to.
After attaching the picture to the red foam, I
attached the red foam to a piece of black foam.
Now for a hanger....
a piece of black ribbon will work.
I chose some other ribbons to simply tie onto
one side of the black hanging ribbon.
Snip, snip, snip.....clip some pieces of each
ribbon choice.
Simple so far.....don't you think?!
I want to add some "littles" to
hang on the side of my sign.
How about using some jingle bells?
I tied them on a short piece of ribbon....
......and added them to the bow.
I have a box of small doodads....so I
checked my stash.
Oh.....look at these!
I liked these two little ornaments.....
so they each got a piece of ribbon and the gold
ornament needed a bow.
Very festive!
I added two bows above the bells.
This sign is done!
So I hung it up to take a picture
and it was hanging all
lopsided......boo hiss!
Too much weight on the left side......
so.....
some weight needed to be added to the right side.
Hmmmmm, what to do?
Come on brain, don't fail me now.
Ah ha.....
Good ol' pennies to the rescue!
These were glued to the back.
Tah Dah!
Cute little Santa face sign ready
to help decorate our house!
It will probably hang on a grapevine wreath
on the mantel for the holidays!
Something like this....
Now, I'll get back to the real time of the year
that my calendar is showing me!
Thanks for letting me share this
Christmas project with you, Glitterinas!
I bet you have a seasonal picture that you
could use to make a holiday pretty
to use when you decorate this year!
Please share a picture or a comment with me....
I love it when you do!
Until next time,
Tammy
