We have some holiday crafting going on here lately! Above are some beeswax dipped pine cones. Mmmm, I love the smell of beeswax.
Which is why I knew I had to make this when I saw it on Small Things, a beeswax nativity set. It was so fun to make and I even made a set for a friend too. Talk about beautiful and inexpensive!
It sits on our mantle right next to our birth of Jesus silhouette. Michael was so excited to see it lit the other night.
We also have some fairy ornaments in the works! This year I would love to have a handmade, woodland/ fairyland Christmas tree. Please check out my Handmade Christmas Pinterest board. It is a selection of projects I'd like to accomplish. A couple of them are ornaments I've made for my MamaWestWind shop but now would love to make for us. I will only get to a few of the projects I'm sure, so I've intentionally kept this board small and manageable. I love Pinterest but whoa can it get overwhelming. So, I'm going to make one ornament style per week, at least 3 ornaments each if not more. So, by the week before Christmas I will have at least 12 new woodland/ fairyland ornaments plus a bunch of beeswax dipped pine cones.
Are you interested in joining me? Every week I'll blog about the project of the week and then later the finished project. You can follow along with me or select your own favorite projects to do. By Christmas I should have one lovely handmade tree. For more handmade ideas visit my King Winter in the Wood board. (This is the overwhelming Pinterest board!) I would love to see & hear all about your handmade decor projects, so please leave a link to yours. We can have ourselves a Holiday Craft Along!
First up are these ornaments from Willodel blog. She has written an awesome tutorial for them. Mine will be slightly different. I'll show you how they've turned out at the end of the week. Join me, won't you!?
Until next time...
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Ooo! Nothing like a bunch of wonderful handmade decorating ideas all in one place outside if Pinterest! I agree about it being overwhelming but you sure do find some great ideas :) Here is what we've been working in this week! Thank you for offering your space xo
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DeleteOh how beautiful I can almost smell the beeswax from here! And I simply cannot wait to see what your Willodel inspired ornaments look like, Two of my very favorite Etsian artists! We just picked up a Willodel Tree Fort at the post of today, that will be a Yule gift for my little ones, I think it may need some Mama West Wind peg dolls to go with it.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny I made the ornaments Willodel suggest the weekend before she put up the tutorial! Mine are somewhat a "low version" of hers...They are so detailed!
DeleteOurs have no arms or wings- I guess it's not too late to had them. But they have a pompom belly -my daughter's idea, ahah!
A woodland themed tree sounds wonderful to me! I'm very attached to winter woodland this time of the year... It makes me thing of a post for the nk blog. I'm sure people would be interested in a pagan nativity scene?
Thank you Cynthia! I agre of course, MamWestWind dolls a must! ;) Andreann did you post your ornaments? They sound adorable. Link here if you have. I'm curious about your pagan nativity as well.
Deletei love the idea of a holiday ornament craft along. we're planning to make a few different ornaments over the next weeks, so i just might join you. (i found you through keep calm craft on. hello!)
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I'd love to have you along!
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Oh, I love that beeswax nativity. So cute! I look forward to seeing what you make for the tree. My dream this year is to decorate a real tree with real food items - dried apples and oranges, gingerbread boys and candycanes.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds lovely!
DeleteWe use dried fruit as well. Oranges and lemons look like stained glass with the lights behind them and if you cut the apple horizontally they have a beautiful star pattern.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of using lemons and oranges. I love orange peel garlands I've seen too. So lovely. & I bet it smells so good!
DeleteMy girls and I made a bunch of fairies and angels yesterday, based on the willodel tutorial. I just took some pictures, now to actually post them to my blog....hehe....
ReplyDeleteThe dipped pine cones look gorgeous, don't they? Very effective! Can't wait to see your woodland decorated tree ♥
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Please considering joining us over at Eco-Kids Tuesday Link-Up. BTW somehow I never made the connection between MamaWestWind at Pinterest and Chocolate Eyes in the blog world!
ReplyDeleteI love your beeswax Nativity. And we have that same transparency and it's one of my very favorite Christmas decorations!
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up to Waldorf Wednesday. Hope to see you back this week!
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