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

[wnylib]

3. Not making any this year, but in the past

I have crocheted some angels, a bell (with a clapper inside), a very small wreath, and a small stocking, for hanging on the tree. I still have them and use them every year.

No instructions, just made them up as I went along. It was fun.

Another time, I bought a box of round, plain, solid colored ornaments. Then I cut some lace and other trim and pieces of cloth from old, worn out clothes and glued them onto the spherical ornaments. Sometimes I added a gem colored stone (not real gems) or imitation pearl from a couple earrings left after I lost the mates to them.

One year I bought a roll of 1" wide lace and used it as a garland for the tree. I bought a few painted wooden ornaments and hung them on the tree along with the crocheted items and home decorated spherical ornaments for a Victorian theme.

I still have all those old ornaments, plus some newer, "modern style" ones. I hang all of them on the tree as a personal history hodgepodge of past Christmasses, without any theme other than to mix them up by size, style, and color to look varied and decorative, with a gold garland and gold star at the top.