Hand made Victorian Christmas ornaments

Victorian ornament reminds us of lavish touches and fragrant scents, memories that can affordably be brought in our own home and Christmas day with crafting supplies to create fabulous jewelry.

Christmas decorating is a welcome way to add holiday spirit to our homes and our foster families and friends. Victorian ornament reminds us of excessive gold brocade, lace battenberg touches and fragrant scents of dried flowers and herbs. All memories can be brought in our own home and Christmas day with crafting supplies to create fabulous jewelry.

Victoria fans

Using the left wall paper or border reminates you can easily make the fans to decorate your tree. These are attractive especially if they match the wall paper in your room because it coordinates the periodic full of your existing decor. Cut your strips the wallpaper and start folding the paper back and forth like a fan. Fold up the bottom part of getting paper and staple the fan to keep it's shape. Next hotglue lace, crafting beaded pearls, ribbons or pre-made roses and dried flowers to finish the look and cover the staple.

You can also make fans out of the flat panel tie by cutting the lace 10 from 5 to 12x4 inches. Soak the fabric in liquid starch tie. Fan flod the wet lace making 7 to 10 vertical folds as described above. After they are dry open folds and add ribbons or tassels to the ends of the fan to hold it together and finish your look.

HEART fabric ornaments

Choosing a good taffeta or other shiny fabric, remove the two identical heart shapes. One in the same piece of cloth sew a piece of flat tie across the widest part of

the heart. Continue sewing ribbons and other forms of lace around the heart horizontally as desired. Zig zag on a narrow ribbon loop on top of one heart. Pin the

pieces of the heart along the front and tie the fabric facing each other. Sew all the way around leaving a space to open your pattern. Things within you heart with a

cotton blend and fill manifold. Use a blind stitch to close your hole. Finished your heart that you can use as a gift to smell the lingerie drawer. It would be

beautiful hanging in a cedar closet or blanket chest or as a package topper!

AND SNOWFLAKES crochet doily angel

Mat is a fun way to add Victorian charm to your tree. By stiffening your pre-made mat it can handle well any shape you want from angel wings delicate snowflakes. To

help your mat holds its shape, pin waxed paper in a card board to protect it. Next, dip a cloth in the liquid starch and completely soak it until it's big wet.

Stiffener wipe excess with paper towel, do not wring out the cloth. Lay the materials prepared wax covered board and stretch and pin it in shape. If you make

snowflakes can sprinkle a fine Dusting of brilliance on top of wet glue and then allow to dry overnight. Angels can be further embellished with wooden beads suing

handpainting angels face with soft curly doll hair or use small glass beads to string together to create a body.

Glass ornament balls

There are a number of decorating options using clear glass ornaments. Lift the metal cover of the decorations and fill it with different types of materials that are

fun to create just the look you want. Manifold is beautiful when it is inserted into the ball and smells wonderful each year. You can match your tree by Victoria

hotgluing ribbons and strands of pearls crafting the cover before reassembling the metal jewelry.

You can also stuff the jewelry in gold or silver curling ribbon and small machines confetti. You need to reduce the five pieces of ribbon about 6 inches long. Curl the

ribbon at both ends and place the ribbon in half over the ball and half out of the ball. The metal cap will hold the ribbon in place!

For an elegant look three inch cut length of sheet music so measures approximately 1 / 2 inches narrower than the diameter of the ball and place in the gem.

You can also use a clear drying glue to wrap the ball decoration on a wide piece of flat lace. Choose lace with some cutouts and a lovely elegant feel.

POMANDER Spice Ball

You will need the following items to make good pomander balls.

Ball Plastic foam

Hot glue Gun and Sticks

Sheet Moss

Small chestnuts, Almonds, Brazil Nuts, Pecans, Whole Cloves, Allspice Berries, Berries juniper, dried Rosehip & miniature Hemlock Pinecones.

Each nut is attached individually with hot glue. Try making a ball with only two or three of the above ingredients by gluing a thin layer of sheet moss to the ball.

Next start adding other nuts in a horizontal ring around the ball, one layer at a time. Last fill the gaps in the second type of nut or rowan. Can the gold pomander or leave this nature. Do not forget to add a satin ribbon loop for hanging. Not only used as an ornament, the spice balls are beautiful topiaries as well!