Holiday hot cocoa ornaments

My daughter wanted to make quick Christmas gifts so this is what we did.

Supplies

*plastic ornaments
*peppermint hot cocoa
*dozens of different festive *holiday candy sprinkles

Tools
*Spoon
*funnel
*Tray

Fill ornaments 4/5 full cocoa finish with different candy sprinkles recap add curling ribbon

Note decorative do not hang with hot cocoa in it too heavy will fall and make mess...

Scissors

Beaded hair piece and Boutannier

My daughter Starr and myself got together today to make a hair piece and boutannier for my youngest daughter to use for homecoming next weekend.


Her dress is sort of a peachy pink.


So we gathered my bead boxes that had those color sin it and some turquoise and some gold.

This is a side hair piece while it was under construction. The little flowers in the left photo are actually parts of the boutannier. This is the hair piece while it was under construction.

 

 

This image below is the piece all done with the silk leaves added we use twist pins to hold these items in the hairstyles  my children do.

This is the flower that is in the hair piece while it was under construction.

The boutannier

 

 all finished

 Below you can see the boutannier holder we mounted the boutannier into.  also more bits and pieces under construction in this photo.

 Some of the little pieces in the boutannier.

 Petals while under construction encase people like to see how the parts look.

 Once again the boutannier holder up close.

Small origami

When your daughter is trying to figure out how small she can fold an origami flower.

My children have made origami for years... I have stepped on so many bits and pieces of paper torn or cut into little squares it is unbelievable... But I would feel bad if these little bits got stepped on.  I can't even see small enough things like this anymore to even attempt to fold this small. She was using small steel crochet hooks as her fingers to fold it.

Yellow skirt

 

My children go on a choir tour each summer this last summer they went to California.  At 1 am the morning of leaving I realized I had not made a skirt for my daughter who is the choir manager to wear during performances... hers is yellow to match the boys ties the other members of the choir that are female wear dark blue...  I took her old skirt that was too small traced it made the modifications to the pattern to go up to the size needed.  Then she helped cut it out and I sewed it up fitted her and made more modifications.  Some how all in time to leave by 6 a.m. that was a long night.

Picture below is the choir two years ago in Williamsburg.

Wood sewing cabinet and wood eggs

This is a project I started a year ago and got put on hold because of work and school and just life in general.  It is meant to be a cabinet to hold home sewing machines. That has a drop down table to sew on.  When it is finished it has doors with shelves in them to hold sewing  supplies like hard plastic rules and such.

I hope to get this finished by Christmas and in my sewing room to be used even though it is not  large the storage space it will create in my small sewing space will be amazing It will clear off so many counters in there.

I hope to get the front of it wood burned my middle daughter has agreed to draw an image on it and burn it with me.

doors

These are some eggs my oldest daughter , China, turned for me in her woodworking class.  I received them in my Easter basket.  My middle daughter drew the images and the oldest wood burned them.

Beaded rose

My daughter Starr made this as a thank you for a small act of kindness.  She was at the grocery store buying a gift for a friend when she discovered at the check out that she was 50 cents short the casher a nice young man (teenager) pulled the change out of his own pocket and made up the difference.

So when we got home she instant set to work to say thank you.  6.5 hours later this was made.  With way more supplies than the 50 cents would have bought supplies from my beading cupboard and her box of beads.  But who can put a price on random acts of kindness.  He did it just to be kind and she did it just to say thanks and neither know each other.

First she made the rose followed by the filler flowers then she added silk leaves that we usually use in corsages.  Then added a chop stick for the steam and wrapped that all in floral tape.

Once all made then she added the foil cello to finish it off.

Sk8 board decks

My middle daughter had gotten into designing sk8 board decks. She has then for sale at boardpusher. http://www.boardpusher.com/Stellas_Fire

Watt Pad and my daughter

My daughter Azure Starr has a Wattpad page where she places poems she writes. She would like to get more readers if you would like to see what she writes please follow like and  like this story: "Free Style Poems" by StellaAstro on Wattpad also contact me at...  She has over 50 poems on there.  She would love more readers and constructive feedback.