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!
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.
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.
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.
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!