Ornament Momentos

Better late than never right? I guess I should start off with a Happy New Years!! Here's to a better year and finally finding out if the Mayan's are right. So, while I was distracted with reorganizing and redoing my house post finals and the christmas shindigs, I managed to find some really awesome craft ideas that I want to try out. Only caveat is that half of them are christmas ideas haha, but that's okay! We can always save them for this year...possibly. Anyways, here's a sneak peak:

I like making my own christmas ornaments. I normally buy my own clear ornaments from Michael's, grab some acrylic paint, squirt, swirl, and heat to dry in an oven. I probably have a picture from some that I made my freshman year of college around here somewhere. I saw this momento ornament idea online at from glitter to gumdrops and thought it was super cute! Mine didn't come out as glamorous as Christy's one looks on her blog but it was fun to play with. I cut up an old Lumberjack newspaper I had lying around (ironically it was a science article written by my friend Rob after I stopped and looked at it) and used the scissors to curl the paper (like you would when curling ribbon for presents). Next time I would definitely use a pen or pencil - they came out super curly, roundish and clung together instead of being more spiral shaped and loose. I like her charm idea, but all I had near me was some twine and that frilly paper stuff so I tried to use that to tie a bow. Little bit of a shake to get the words to show up better around the glass and walah!

 

All in all it would definitely make a great present for newlyweds, expecting parents, birthdays, graduations, anniversaries or any other day you want to commemorate using invitations or other notices from events. You can hang them up as decorations either in a room or on the tree during December.