Handmade beaded tree ornaments
After the Thanksgiving holiday, most homes turn to pulling out those Christmas decorations and start planning on putting up the Christmas trees (if you have not already).
Putting up the tree always makes us review the ornaments and consider how many more ornaments can we put on or put up before the tree is officially considered overloaded. Apparently my Mister and my baby sister are in cahoots, trying to convince me that it is time to upgrade to a larger tree. I prefer a smaller overloaded look.
As part of that ornament review, the search is on for inexpensive ways to decorate the tree with handmade or inexpensive Christmas tree ornaments. I can understand why, as I absolutely love to wander the aisles of the Christmas decoration shops. However, the sticker shock I experience always reinforces my decision to make as many of my own ornaments as I possibly can. The prices I see out there are just insane!
These ornaments are an extremely simple construction, using beads threaded on a straight wire. The wonderful thing about these ornaments is that you can shop the extreme budget section of your craft shop for the absolute bargain bin bags of beads. Those bags full of multi-sized multi-colored multi-shaped oddities that are always left over at the end of the season for pennies are perfect to scoop up for ornaments like these. The different colors and shapes fit in perfectly with this construction.
Feel free to throw different colors and shapes together or follow the general construction as shown here. The basic idea here is to imitate icicles, but really, the wonderful thing about Christmas trees is that you can put any color, shape or combination on there that floats your boat and it works. Christmas trees are just magic that way.
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