If you are Making New Christmas Decorations...what are you making?!

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I'm sure I'll have my moments of misery but I'm not relinquishing the joy I get from the Holidays even w dark clouds on the horizon. Hmm... I should go see the decorations in Mid town Manhattan which I haven't done since covid, too! 👍

So my new idea... making a modest size crochetted garland. A long crochet chain of darkish green, chunky yarn - which I will add a "scallop" design; the ?shell stitch one after another next to each other. You put like 5, 7, or so double, or treble stitches in one stitch so it fans out. You attatch it at the other end of the chain. I might make a second smaller row.
Then I'll take this golden "eyelash" yarn (a base yarn where thin strips of some material come off at 90° degrees to the base yarn at various distances in between) and add it as an edging.

Anyway, I'm using a turquoise chunky yarn (all I have) to work it out first- before I buy the green one. Make one for me, my sis, a friend. If I time have maybe one for my cousin who's hosted Christmas sooo many times after our parents, aunts & uncles stopped doing it.

My mom made soooo many *wonderful* decorations over years via ? Women's Day, Family Circle. She was so talented though that she could often wing her own designs off along w what they offered. My sis, and I still have some 60 - 55 yrs old! 🥰

I tried the 8 pointed star out of straws, but couldn't figure out. I should buy a box of straws, cut some in half and try it that way; making it easier to send the needle, and thread through.

I have decorated the styrofoam balls - but need to by multi colored sequines, fake "spindle" & round pearls, and tons of straight pins again. They take awhile if you're really fancy, but they look so pretty!

Tell me what you have going on creatively for the holidays?