DIY!!
In this video, I use trash and junk from around the house to make 10 different types of Christmas ornaments. These include vintage style bells from empty prescription pill bottles, mushrooms from a foam egg carton, a snowman and a snowball made from old jar lids, miniature ornament boxes from empty matchboxes, bird cages made from sticks and paper cups, a snowflake made from sticks, a leather tree made from the cover of an old planner, paper wood slice trees from old sheet music, and a commemorative baby ornament made from an old letter block.
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Music in this video: Fairy Tale Waltz by Kevin MacLeod (Creative Commons License)
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I love this! In 1979 my dad was stationed in Crete with the Army. We cut a big branch for a Christmas tree, leaned it against the wall, and made all our ornaments out of spools, toilet tissue rolls and everything we could get our hands on! Your projects are far more sophisticated than what we could do as kids, but the spirit of your creativity sure evoked those memories of making something from whatever you have!! And loving it!!
Sherry your “brass” bells were GENIUS! As always, I enjoy HOW your mind works and your creativity brings your ideas to life-TFS 😀
That “snowball” ornament is beautiful! These are all great ideas. I have something I do to make ornaments with trash. I save the metal ends from canned biscuits or canned crescent rolls. They are the perfect flat, round surface to use as an ornament, and thin enough so that a hole can easily be made in them for a hanger to be placed. Sometimes I paint them, and then I mod podge a vintage looking image inside the part with the small rim. Sometimes, I allow them to rust a bit ,which they do pretty quickly if you wet them and let them sit for a bit, then I mod podge an image inside and spray sealer all over to keep the rusty look. They need to be sealed either way. They turn out some very cute little, simple round ornaments. Almost forgot, I have also painted them and stamped them with a Christmasey image, or used small molds to glue on, then painted. Again, they are a perfect ,flat enough, round surface to place anything on and make a cute ornament. The kind I get, the paper comes right out when I open them,so I just wash the metal discs and use them this way. I’ve even stuck them on wreaths before, and nobody ever could tell what they once were. So, just a low cost, basically free, ornament idea, and one that can easily be done with kiddos since they don’t have sharp edges. Happy crafting!
I could watch you everyday! I can’t wait to try that baby block ornament for some special newcomers to out family. Thank you for your wonderful videos and projects.
I love the pill bottle bells! It just goes to show you that you can make beautiful ornaments from junk. I love both of your channels.
There just aren’t enough words to express how darling, creative, unique, fun, memory-connected and affordable ALL these ideas are!!! Seriously!! The baby block idea??? OMGoodness!!!
My two favorite DIY’ers in one video!! Doesn’t get much better than that!!
You are brilliant! I loved all of them. It’s important that people still know how to make something from almost nothing, you’re keeping this tradition alive. Thank you.
I’m amazed at your creativity and how great everything turned out! Such inspiring ways to keep stuff out of the trash!
A Collaboration made in heaven! Particularly love the baby’s first ornament.
Lovely Sherry! This episode was very nostalgic for me because I remember making ornaments with my mom out of junk and foraged things. My mom died when I was just 21 years old but she filled my childhood with things like this. I believe she is the one that formed me as a Maker/Up-cycler. Thank you for the tender memories. 💜🤟
I FORGOT to explain something! Were you wondering why I turned the egg cups inside out?! The egg carton cups were rounded on the sides but flat on the bottom. At first, when I “massaged” them, I was hoping to round them out. When that didn’t work, I thought to turn them inside out. Turning them inside out also concealed the imprinted little design on the bottom of the egg cup.
Sherry, they all turned out fabulous !!! I LOVE to make homemade Christmas ornaments !!! Years ago, my family and friends would have an ornament swap, and the ornaments had to be homemade, it was so much fun seeing what people could come up with.🎄🎄
I was teaching class on Saturday. Our tree got delivered. The kids were picking up their toys. My daughter said let’s put them on the tree! They used hair ribbons and scrunchies, too. When I got home I was blown away how darling it was!! Teddy bears and cars…cute under the tree!! And this is why their dad is more fun than me!!