Rubber Stamped Clay Ornaments

The holidays sort of snuck up on me this year. I don’t know why Thanksgiving or Black Friday or that guy with the bucket and the bell outside of Walgreens all day did not serve as a heads up, but earlier this week it dawned on me that if I was planning to make ornaments for my people( yeah, I have people…I’m cool like that), I had better come up with something that was quick, easy, and gorgeous.  Look at the pictures below, and you will see that the red skull mask and the personalized plastic cup really do not fill the bill – but thankfully, these clay ornaments do!

 

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By Cindy Jo, ago

Making a Wine Cork Garland without Using a Drill

A few years back, about five weeks before Christmas, I got it into my head that I needed to make wine cork wreaths for all of my cronies and cohorts.  There was just this tiny wrinkle.  I had lots of cronies and cohorts.  I didn’t have any wine corks.  Details!  I phoned some friends, who phoned their parents, who phoned their friends, and . . . in 16 short months, I had enough wine corks to make wine cork wreaths for my cronies, my cohorts, my cousins, the Colts, some call girls, a few cadavers, and most of Congress.

 

 

After receiving wine corks from all of those sweet and generous people, I’d like to report that I made enough wine cork wreaths to get myself into the Guiness Book of World Records, but the truth is far more embarrassing.  I made two.   As it turns out, I really don’t like making wine cork wreaths.   In point of fact, I really don’t like drilling wine corks.  So awkward.

 

This year, I decided I needed a wonderful wine cork project that did not involve drilling, so I created this Christmas tree garland:

 

 

I love the way the corks dangle from the twine, almost like icicles, or better yet, winecicles.   Just don’t lick them.  You’ll look like a desperate wino.

 

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By ann, ago