Monday 30 November 2020

Snowman Tree Decoration

As I have said before all my Christmas stuff for this year has been done and dusted for quite a while now, mainly thanks to lockdown. I just need to sort out who is getting what, but it’s a nice position to be in, so whatever I do in the next month or so will be more or less prototypes for next year.  I suppose I could start thinking of Valentines Day and Easter, but that’s going too far!

I know I had vowed not to buy any more stuff due to very limited space, but when I saw these little fences in The Works (pack of four £1) you could hear my mind whirling.  I justified myself by only buying one pack, but as soon as I got home instantly regretted it. I fully intended on going back for a few more the next day (the day before we went into meltdown for the second time) but instead wasted the whole day waiting in for a delivery from Yodel which didn’t arrive until past 8 o’clock in the evening, don’t get me started, I was livid, as I also had other things to do in town too!  I can’t find any more online, so I guess I will just have to wait until December to see if they still have any in the shop, hey ho!

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The resin snowman also came from The Works (£1), I hated his yellow scarf, so I coloured it with a green Sharpie pen with a little white detail to help show it up more.  Red might have been a more obvious colour but as the fence was red too, it might have looked too much.

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I glued a small, wooden domino piece, that I had painted white to the fence for the snowman to stand on and create a scene.

When the glue was dry I applied a generous layer of Aleene’s Glitter Snow to the domino and along the top of the fence and that’s when the scene came to life.

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The small sign came from Hobbycraft several years ago, I have never liked the printing on it so I painted over it in white and then added my own writing, but, in the end I didn’t think it worked, so instead added a small, bristle brush tree and a wooden holly leaf, with three red flat back pearls to help fill the empty space instead.

On the back I added two silver findings on either side of the fence for the thread. The snowman had some weight to him and by doing this I hoped that the finished decoration would hang evenly, rather than lopsided on a Christmas tree branch.

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This first effort is a little clunky and far from crisp, due mainly to the changes I made and all the manhandling it received, however, with all problems now sorted, I reckon my next effort, should I wish to repeat the exercise, would be finished to a much “professional” standard, but I kind of like it!