First of all need to say a HUGE thank you to my friend Anne who back in May sent me a wonderful parcel containing all her, as she called them, “defunct” wooden Christmas tree decorations after seeing the wooden toy wreath I made for Christmas 2020.
Marc, bless him, has converted the original wreath ever since. What’s he like? However, although I promised I’d make him one, finding enough wooden toy decorations to do so was going to take quite some time to collect, until Anne gave me a helping hand.
Then after Marc and I had been nattering about me getting started, a wonderous parcel arrived curtesy of Amazon week from Marc, further geeeeeing me along.
I’d already got the base ready on my craft table, having glued two cardboard rings together, so create solid base to work on, followed by giving it a couple of coats of white paint.
I used a glue gun to fix all the pieces to the cardboard frame and each other because ordinary glue, even E9000 would have just been too slow, the little blighters have a tendency to slide and drop of without using something that sets almost instantly.
It took me about three hours to get the base completely covered …………
….. and that’s when the real fiddle farting began, adding layers upon layer, plus even smaller embellishments, including holly berries to the sprigs of holly, characters holding Christmas baubles, gingerbread men and a few skulls, because both Marc and I have a thing about skulls (and taking in The Nightmare Before Christmas) among other tiny things.
Marc was keen on lots of sparkle, but here I was more reserved, just giving the trees a layer or two of ultra fine, translucent glitter.
Then when I just couldn’t add any more, it was time to pick off all the threads left from the glue gun glue ……. aghhhhhh, I still don’t think I’ve got them all!
Marc is so excited about it, I text him pictures as the whole thing took shape ……….. I know it will be soooooooo treasured and looked at with loving eyes. It’s a total one off, there’ll never ever be another one like it, a bit like Marc!!!!!
…… and it'll look much better on the cottage door than my very plain front door. I do have another box of small decorations left, but I think it might take me until this time next year to gird my loins to do it all again, it was pretty intensive going!
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