Painted holly Christmas ball ornament
Remember when I said that painted Christmas ornaments were all the rage? Here is yet another example. And the prices asked for these things are so incredibly silly. Just bend yourself over and belly laugh silly. I am not paying fifty dollars for something that I can do for literally twenty five cents worth of paint and five minutes of my time. No. Just no.
And if the cost is that high, then I can sit down, paint an entire box of ornaments and start gifting them to my friends. I might not be a Picasso, but I can hold the right end of a paintbrush.
So many of the winter holiday motifs are easy to duplicate. Just check your clipart library in your computer. Which of those do you think you might be able to easily repaint on an inexpensive single colored Christmas ball ornament? Sales on boxes of cheap ornaments are happening now, and you can pick up boxes of these for just pennies.
Consider checking out your clipart collection for easy holiday shapes that you think you could paint. And if you do not think you could paint, do what we did last year. Buy yourself the massive package of permanent marker Sharpies. We went to town on those last year. I think between my baby sister and I, we decorated some 10 to 15 boxes of plain ball ornaments. We had - if you will excuse the expression - a ball!
This is such a pretty ornament and I love the color combination. In fact, I actually like it enough to go dig out all my Sharpies left over from last year and make some for my tree this year. And since these painted ornaments are so popular this year, this concept would be a fantastic hostess gift or Secret Santa gift for you to consider early in the season while your gift recipient has the time to really enjoy your talents.
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