Christmas ornaments

Grandma died three days after Christmas this year at the age of 65 and a very sweet friend of hers had a star named after her in the constellation Pegasus, which coincidently went along with the priests homily for the grandchildren. It has been a hard year. The star paperwork had a beautiful chart of the star's location, so I really wanted to do something with it.  Finally have decided to make ornaments of this for each grandchild (or family depending on how they turn out) using metal stamping and have started playing around with that. So I've made a template and started 'playing'... We shall see.

The blanks- 40mm.

The template so far.  The larger whole is for her star.

A little crafting

Scrabble tile jewelry. Kinda fun too.

Catch Up.

In January or February I made these hats - which they love and requested matching scarves for...but since it's stopped snowing (finally) that can wait until next year.

I also made a pretty darned cute crochet and felted cupcake purse, but alas didn't take a photo of it before I gave it away. 

I made a felted pin cushion ring that I LOVE, but haven't photographed.  I will take that in like 5 minutes.

Last weekend I made a messenger purse, based on the one over at mmmcrafts for my 15 year old daughter, which I did take pictures of.  She has worn it every day this week, so we'll assume that one was a success.  The pictures for the following stink, but decided better awful than never.

I love the unfinished, tattered edge of the strap.  If I were to make another I would make the heart-peace symbol smaller and I would make the edge of the flap unfinished and tattered as well.  I would also get rid of my chalk marks and press it before I photographed it in better light...  =-)

I made these key chains for the girls' swim coaches at the end of the season (mid-March).  They were quick and had to be done that day - so again the photos stink.

Just simple keychains for the boys and key charms for the girls.  - Totally wish I had taken time to plan ahead and take better photos.  Oh well!

I am currently knitting a Noni purse pattern for myself - hopefully to finish this next week.