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Ornament 69

I’m way behind on my ornament game this year because work has been insane lately. Here’s one I made two weeks ago for a neighbors small holiday open house. They provided a heavy blank paperboard ornament and Dana came up with the concept for this.

Here’s the illustration I created. (The final piece consists of layered felt that is laser cut and then spray glued together on the blank ornament.)

Here are the individual pieces of felt. I did illustrate the stars in gold/yellow but I found a silver backed felt and used that. I ended up stacking a few layers of the white snow to give it some depth, though I should have done a boolean difference of the top of the trees for the stars, or better yet, layered the stars a bit better. (I have another project in the works that is an improvement in this.)

Oh, it’s “Ornament 69” because we live on 69th Street. Happy Holidays!

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A Very Maker Christmas

A Very Maker Christmas

We’ve been busy in the days leading up to Christmas, and the elves (kids) spent a lot of time in the “2XL Makerspace” and with my help we hand-crafted a number of ornaments. In the true tradition of making gifts rather than buying them, we had a blast…

I made good use of the tools that belonged to my Dad, and a box of scrap wood my brother gave me (along with my own scrap wood, which I’ve probably moved with me for the last 5 years/4 houses.)

I can see this becoming a tradition… spending time with the kids making things in the weeks leading up to the Holidays…

File Under: Awesome.