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Creating your own Christmas Decorations

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Toast Pop Posted in Lifestyle .

Creating your own Christmas DecorationsDecorating during the holiday season always transforms the home into a warm and inviting refuge from the hustle and bustle of holiday preparations. Decorations that are created by the family create personal heirlooms that can be enjoyed for years to come. Creating adornments from natural items also helps remove some of the strain from the decorating budget. Many beautiful Christmas decorations can be made at home. Items can be either bought from a craft or large department store or obtained by gathering supplies from the environment. A beautiful door swag can be created from every day household items and natural items that are found in the yard.

Christmas Swag

  • Supplies:
  • coat hanger
  • one sq. ft. chicken wire
  • greenery
  • winterberry bundles
  • two or more apples
  • dark green pipe cleaner
  • large decorative bow
  • wire cutters

Directions: Pull the wire hanger at the top and bottom until it forms a diamond shape. Using a wire cutter and heavy duty work gloves, attach the chicken wire to the hanger by bending cut pieces of wire around the hanger. Create six bundles of greenery by securing them at the top with the pipe cleaner. Begin attaching the bundles starting from the bottom up so they overlap and completely cover the chicken wire. Attach two or three winterberry bundles to the top of the swag, securing with pipe cleaner. Core two or more apples and run a piece of pipe cleaner through the centers, twist to secure at the back and attach to the chicken wire near the top of the swag. Top with a gorgeous holiday bow. Other Christmas decorations can be created that also make a fun project for almost any age family member. Holiday orbs that are made from gumdrops are easy to make and a beautiful addition to any tree.

Gumdrop Ornament

  • Supplies:
  • styrofoam balls
  • ribbon
  • straight pins
  • hot glue gun
  • gum drops
  • scissors

Directions: This project involves scissors, hot glue and straight pins and may not be suitable for younger children. Start by applying a dot of hot glue on the styrofoam ball. Cut an appropriate length of ribbon and overlap the ends onto the glue and secure with a straight pin. Apply the gum drops closely to one another around the ball, attaching with the hot glue gun. Alternating colors will help produce a more balanced effect. Allow several hours for the glue to dry. The ornament can be hung on a tree or from a chandelier. Craft stores sell preservative sprays that can be used to keep the decorations from spoiling.

About the Author: Mike Jones is a keen blogger and has several years experience working within the arts and crafts industy.  When Mike isn’t creating things he works for supplier Crafters Companion on a regular basis.

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Kim Westad: Fulfillment Through Pottery

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Toast Pop Posted in Art, Lifestyle .

We fill our homes with things that make us feel content and fulfilled but are beautiful to look at. Kim Westad decided that her training as a graphic designer simply didn’t fulfill her need to create or to bring a feeling of contentment to others. In her search for something to make her life better, she stumbled upon a pottery class and fell in love. Here at the potter’s wheel was the sense of creativity and fulfillment that she had craved, and from that, burst a business. She left her job to create pottery and in May of 2004, she set up her own studio.

She has several collections of unique pieces: whirls, vases, ornaments, pendants, cups, mugs, and bowls. Each piece is beautiful, useable, and done completely by hand so as to ensure a unique product. Kim finds the fact that people enjoy not only enjoy looking at her work but actually putting it to work a joy in and of itself. You can view her works and find more information about Kim Westad at http://kimwestad.com/ .

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It’s All About The Packaging

Posted on November 2, 2011 by James Agee Posted in Pop Culture .

How many times have you been out shopping and found yourself drawn to an item just because it has a cool design to it? Even if you do not realize it, the majority of things sold in our global market are sold based on design, not so much for productivity or purpose. I am not saying that something can’t look good and still be useful, take a Macintosh computer for example, it’s elegant and extremely useful! You may not even realize that you are buying something based on it’s looks.

In many aspects of our shopping endeavors the product with the coolest box or the most snappy phrases written on it win our money. I honestly believe that you can have a good product that will not be successful in its sales if the packaging is not worth looking at. Personally, I would choose a drink contained in a modern or newly designed bottle rather than a coke that is in the same old can we see it in on a daily basis. This is not always the case, in fact many people will choose a brand that they know because they are so used to it, but think about it, even coke had branded packaging back when it first came on the market with it’s beautifully crafted glass bottles. It’s all in the packaging, don’t believe me? Take a look at our gallery of amazingly packaged products and see if you can honestly say you wouldn’t want to buy it for the packaging!

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