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It’s the time of the year for decorating Christmas trees and Art Bead Scene is holding its annual Ornament Blog Hop to showcase ornaments made with art beads. This year I was lucky enough to acquire a couple of Gaea Cannaday‘s beautiful ceramic Christmas designs to use in my ornaments, and they arrived just in time.
The first one is a cute little plaid Christmas tree. Those of you who know me know of my love (umm, obsession?!) with the Outlander books and TV series, and this ornament is actually destined to be part of a Secret Santa exchange (shhh). This tree needed a decoration for the top and I’ve knotted the two together with green and red waxed linen.
The second ornament came with three coordinating ceramic beads, and I’ve simply knotted them all together with waxed linen in a similar style to the tree.
This ornament has already found a spot on my rather crowded Christmas tree.
For other participants in this blog hop, visit the Art Bead Scene post here, which features everyone’s links. Sit back with a holiday drink (as it’s summer here I think I’ll have a vodka cranberry cocktail) and see what everyone has made! Happy holidays!
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Gorgeous! Oh, that plaid Christmas tree is so, so lovely! I love the snowy “baubles” ornament with the pop of red, like a berry in the snow! Knotting is also a super idea!
The little tree looks like gingerbread decorated with icing! Like the simplicity of the two ornaments!
Oh, simply adorable! I love seeing your ornament-ornament in the tree (I haven’t put ours up yet).
I love them both, but my favorite part is the red/green waxed linen – what a clever detail!
They’re all so lovely, but I think my favourite is the Christmas tree!
Your ornaments are really sweet. I especially like the plaid one.
Great job Heather. My favorite is the second one but the plaid is very clever. I have fused glass ornaments in my kiln right now and I wish I had thought of using plaid as decoration on some of them.
Simple and gorgeous. Beading and thread are quite matching.