Hello All,
Welcome to my ABS X-Mas Ornament Blog Hop Page!
One of the things I enjoyed as a child at Christmas time was the ribbon candy, not so much for it's taste but for the beautiful colors. The beads I made out of Paperclay tinted with acrylic paint and gold leaf reminded me of ribbon candy. I made tubes, disks and drum shaped beads.
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| The Paperclay Beads, Pink, Gold and Green |
The drum shaped beads reminded me of little presents so I "trimmed" them with seed bead ribbons and bows.
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The Gifts
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Then I decided that a wreath would be a nice way to use the little presents so I took some 24 gauge gold tone wire and wrapped it several times around my cloth measuring tape (it was wound up). It just happened to be a nice size, but anything round would have worked. I took some seed beads and attached the disks to the bottom of the wreath as dangles. Who doesn't like dangles!
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| The Beginning of the Wreath with the Dangles |
Then I used more wire to attach the presents to the wreath one on each side of the dangles. With the ends of the wire I wrapped the wreath with seed beads.
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| Almost Done, Dangles, Gifts, Seed Beed Love, and Adorning the Hanger |
Using a separate wire I wrapped the hanger section with seed beads. Can you tell I like seed beads? I'm very pleased with how it turned out. Now it has a home on my son's tree.
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| On the Tree, Isn't it Beautiful! |
For those who love to bake at Christmas I want to share a link for some delicious molasses cookies.
Jamie Deen's Old-Fashioned Ginger Crinkle Cookies They are a nice change from all the chocolate making the rounds. Instead of rolling them into individual balls and flattening them I like to roll them into logs and slice them. I skip the whole rolling them in sugar part too. I hope you enjoy them.
Thank you for visiting my blog. I'm linking up with the ABS 4th Annual Ornament Blog Hop.
http://artbeadscene.blogspot.com/2013/12/ornamentbloghop2013.html.
