Posts Tagged ‘Family’
Christmas Elves
I’ve just made a whole stack more Christmas Elves for my second cousins, Sianna and Kobi, and will be making a few more for Chrissie pressents this year. These are perfect little gifts for children, or even adults! (I have them spelling out love, joy, peace and Christmas in our house!). If you don’t want to follow the instructions here, you can always order then from my etsy shop! I’ll make any word/letter combo you want. 
You’ll need:
Red felt (1 sheet is enough for 10 elves, with some extra)
Mini pompoms (5 per elf)
Letter blocks. I bought mine here, but these are expensive compared to the $2 shops that stocked them last year.
Wooden balls for heads
Hot glue gun and lots of glue sticks for them!
Scissors
Template
Steps:
1. Download the template/pattern and cut out the shapes.
2. Collect the letters that you need. Make sure you have enough! These blocks annoying come in a pack of the alphabet, and you should get 2 of each letter in the box (be aware of what letter is on the back of the letter you want… A and N were on the back of each other, so for Sianna I actually needed 2 boxes, which normally I might have only needed 1…)
3. Cut out enough arms for each of your blocks.
4. Cut out enough legs for each of your blocks.
5. Cut out enough hats for each of your blocks.
6. Turn your glue gun on, and lay out all your legs. I personally like to do all of the one part (all legs, then all arms etc), rather then elf by elf. You can do it elf by elf if you want though!
7. Put the glue onto the BOTTOM of the BLOCK, not the felt! The glue is too hard to spread on the felt. It’s really important that you work quickly to get it on, but also, remember to work SMART, as in, make sure that everything faces the right way!
8. Once your legs are all on, fold one of your arms in half. Put a strip of glue across the top of the block, and line up the middle of your arms with the middle of the block. Press down both sides. The arms should hang over to about the bottom of the block, but hey, you can make them longer or shorter depending on how you want them!
9. Cut out a circle of white felt- this is the collar. Use pinking shears to pink the edges. Glue this onto the block. Use the hot glue gun to make a circle on the bottom of the wooden ball (the hole should be on the bottom), and stick it onto the collar. I find that it’s best to be a bit generous with the glue at this point, but making sure it’s not too wide- you don’t really want to see the glue.
10. HATS! It’s best to test this before you glue, or on a spare head- because different wooden balls might be different sizes. The hats need to fit neatly around the head (not too low, or too high), with enough room to join them together.
Run the glue down the side of the hat shape (straight side), and fold it over so that the other straight side meets it.
11. Run the glue gun around the top of the elf’s head, and put the hat on. You can pretty easily add more glue here if it’s not sticking properly.
12.You can fold the hats either way- I always try to do a bit of variety, but you might like one word to all face the same way… Anyway, just put a blob of glue where you want the hat to connect (just above the bottom of the hat), and fold it over.
13. Pom Poms… I like to choose two colours for my pom poms, and do the arms one colour, and the legs and hat the other colour. I have some that are multi-coloured though, and others that are all white, or old gold etc. It’s up to you! Pom Pom’s don’t require much glue, and they can always be replaced/glued back on if they get pulled/sucked off or lost!
14. They’re finished!
Embroidery
I’ve been working on three new embroideries, which will be Christmas presents for Luke’s Nonna, Luke’s Nanna and Pa, and my Nana.
Luke’s Nonna doesn’t celebrate Christmas, so technically this is just a random gift, which I will happen to give her when we see her on Christmas Day… She’s really into the Hebrew Roots things, like us, and so I made her this “Shalom” embroidery, which is basically Hebrew for “Peace” Wikipedia has a pretty good explanation of the complexities of Shalom…
For my Nana, I made “Love” and for Luke’s Nanna and Pa I made “Family”. Hopefully they like them!
I have a questions for you all, do you think people would be interested in buying embroidery kits? With the Calico cut and the design drawn on it, the pellen for the back, and one (possibly two) coloured embroidery threads? Needle wouldn’t be included. I was thinking I could do “Christmas” “Love” “Joy” “Peace” as well as people’s names… if you think it’s the kind of things you would buy, or if you know people who might get it, let me know, and I’ll put some in my store!
Lucky Me…
“I have to celebrate you baby,
I have to praise you like I should”
This is how I felt this weekend. Celebrated by my husband, and family. It’s a nice feeling. Friday was a day of getting presents from my kids and watching Toy Story. Fun times. Piper and her mum gave me an awesome Fraggle Rock T-shirt. Very cool, and I have worn it now ever since I got it! Chocolates, some jewlery, elephants and other nick-nacks were the order of the day. I felt SO special, and almost (I said almost) wish that I didn’t have to leave.
Saturday was also lots of fun. After a bit of a sleep-in Luke fixed up my iTunes, and then we went to the shops. I got an iPhone! and some new underware. Plus we bought some yummies for lunch.
After playing with my iPhone for ages Rhys came over and we drunk wine and champagne and ate a yummy salad, and some other yummy things like chocolate.
Then we eventually got ready and went down to Brissie for Faith’s birthday party @ The Brew House. Fun night- beer, pizza and some arcade games next door.
Thank-you Luke for a great weekend, and to my family for sharing it with me.
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