Christmas Crafty – Part Two

I mentioned in an earlier post that we were working on another project. We’ve finally finished it!

I was recently on a mission to find picture frame ornaments but not just any picture frame ornaments. I wanted simple, small wooden frames that we could decorate. I went to several stores and couldn’t find what I was looking for. I told Eric about it and he came up with this ingenious idea – make them ourselves out of popsicle sticks.

Well, duh.

I just so happen to have had some small sticks leftover from a project we did a couple of years ago. So, I had our four year old color some of the popsicle sticks. We then glued them together, making a small square (about 2″ x 2″). She decorated the colored sticks with some holiday stickers and I tied a string (actually, some holiday ribbon) around the frames to hang on the tree. This is what our homemade frames look like:

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Very cute. Very four-year-old-looking. I love them to pieces.

See the two furry things in the frames? Those are our two fabulous kitties, Indie and Ollie. We recently lost both of them (just over a month apart). So, this was a very important project for me. It’s going to be a different Christmas without them around. I’m thrilled that we completed our project and our furbabies now have a place on our Christmas tree.

We encourage you to make some homemade ornaments this year. When you pull them out of the Christmas bin next year, you’ll have a lovely memory to look back on.