Oh Christmas Tree

This year I fell in love with some scrapbook paper that was not your traditional Christmas colors but brown, tan, blue and very glittery.  My son, Austin, and I decided to cover these metal stars with it -- and the rest is history.  We ended up decorating our entire tree with these colors.  

Pictured here are some of hte stars once they had the paper on them  ....

We also spray painted various sizes of grapevine balls with blue and added matching glitter.  They worked out perfectly ...

I found some ribbon and additional ornaments that tied it all together.

We used the extra paper and a wonderful little cutting tool I am sure was designed by Martha Stewart herself to add some more design and color.  The picture here isn't the best.  I wish Santa would bring me a new camera, but we love it.  Now it needs a matching Christmas tree skirt!


The end result ...

Rhonda

December Scrap quilt

This scrap quilt used some remaining "Figgy Pudding" scraps and measures about 20" square.  The strips of rectangles you see were one-inch pieces I had remaining and I pieced them in strips adding white sashing between the rows.  I added a small red stop border and then 2 1/2" squares four the outside border.  It was a good use of very small scraps and found a nice little spot on my desk at work.   

December Charm quilt

This charm quilt was made with the fabric line "Figgy Pudding" which has been hanging around in my stash for a while.  I used a Schnibbles pattern from Miss Rosie's quilts.  The pattern is amazing, but it didn't work with this fabric line.  You cannot  really pick them outbut there are three different blocks in this pattern -- 9 star blocks, the center of each being a pinwheel, on the outer edge of the star blocks a shoo fly block is trying to peek out.  I think the quilt (actually a table topper, it is under 40" square) needed more fabric that was a solid or very small print for the blocks to stand out better.  But, even though it isn't necessarily a favorite, I have gotten several compliments on it, as I have mentioned a few times, my camera isn't taking the best pictures these days.   

Rhonda