Handmade Christmas Ornaments with Photos.

I'm still working on a handmade Christmas. And really enjoying it. My "rules" are that I buy nothing; making ornaments out of things I have on hand in the studio. As the weeks pass, I'm amazed by how much I really have in this small space.

Cleaning out a dresser, I found four lace coasters. I'm not 100 percent on where they came from. They were with some of my mother's linens so could have been a gift to her. I may have bought them in Pella, Iowa, as an example of "Dutch" lace. Since they don't have a [memorable] history, I decided to make snowflakes out of them and hang them on the the tree. 

Then, I had a brain wave. Cut out the middle and use the lace as a frame. After all, they aren't precious, handmade items. So I did this. 

That's a photo of my Grandma, in her freshman year at college. She wrote in my "Grandmother Remembers" book that she set waves in her hair with sugar water.

The cut out circles will be great snowflakes, just by their own selves.

Comments

[Debra]

Beautiful.

[teent]

Very cool! Like that pic of Gramma Erna.

[Kristen]

I have been wanting to get over here and catch up, but you know what flurries of whatever I've been going through in the last several weeks. Tonight is NOT the night. But I snuck by for a taste -

May I just say that I'm with you on the not buying presents thing. Not that I've been able to get away with it this year. But then you said you couldn't make anything unless you used ONLY what's already in your studio? Uh-huh. Don't think I could do it. Which is stupid, because I have just about everything under the sun. But none of it is ever quite right - see, so you gotta just buy this one little bag of bells or beads -

I remind myself of my husband and father (two people, thank you very much) who do "projects," and have to hit Home Depot at least three to four times a day as they do them.

Okay - back to family -

[Kristen]

Re-visit: most of our ornaments have turned out to be handmade - friends, family, us. I love what you did with the doilies - they did have some kind of provenance to begin with, as they did belong to your mother. I have some stuff like that of my grandmother's - no idea where she got them, who did the crochet or the embroidery. The simple fact that they belonged to her give them significance - a dangerous precedent to set in your mind, however. But you have expanded these things far past their purpose, giving them a much more dignified job - and then you weave it all back by putting the picture of your grandmother in the middle- so presto! An heirloom with double provenance. Clever cat, you.

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