Thursday 5 January 2012

A Homemade Christmas

Every year my dad insists on a homemade card for birthdays, fathers day, christmas etc. So this year I thought i'd go a little further and make the family baubles for the tree :)

They cost me about a £1 each to make and are made from 2 part 8cm plastic baubles, card, foam, letter beads, string, cling film, tinsel, gems, ribbons and sewing pins.

I started off filling them with things which represented each person, so for my sister I made a mini theatre mask as she is involved in theatre design but it got too complicated for the rest of the family.
So, I decided to make individual flowers for each person instead :)
For my dad - a shamrock
For my mom - a tiger lily
For my elder sister - a rose
For my younger sister - a daisy
And for me, a calla lily

Not only was it cheap but it's something which will last longer than anything I could have bought for them :)