Ornament Thursday!

Create quick and simple ornaments for all your friends using wool roving and a needle felting tool. These teeny Santa Suit ornaments would be cute on some stripey Baker's Twine draped on your tree. The simple tree-shaped ornaments shown below are so easy, just felt a tree-ish triangle of wool and add on some teeny wool 'ornaments' in festive colors. We did the Tree Ornament at Panopolie on Tuesday and we'll re-run it Friday morning at Breakfast and Beads.







You don't have to make trees, try hearts, gingerbread men, even dinosaurs!
If you want a bit of help in shaping your ornament try using a metal cookie cutter to hold the roving in place. Needle felt inside the cutter with a single needle to get the wool in shape and then remove the ornament to finish with a multi-needle tool.

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A tree made of books made of trees...

This tree at the West Regional Library in Cary was created by Tracey of Panopolie. She made it with books, artfully folded and stacked, over an armature of bamboo from my backyard. Elegant and then you think of the idea that this tree is made of books...which are made of trees...that's a whoa moment.

This is the second year Tracey has volunteered to make a tree for the libraries. Last year's was in the Cameron Village Library. Go check this one out, it will be up through early January. Here is a map to the library. For pics of last year's tree including some in-process construction photos, click here.

Par-TAY!

Tracy gets really happy-





Nice shoes!











Melissa has no idea who the guy in the black sweater is but he's cute, I hope she got his number!



Hailey and Heidi, the dangerous duo!





Gift joy for all -





Melissa wears a box lid as a hat, or does that hat work as a box lid?



And earlier in the evening this was Mom and Dad heading out for a fancy night-



This was the gift Galen made..check out the wrapping on those brownies! Watch out Martha!



I hope your work parties are this much fun-we really do like each other a lot here and this party is one opportunity to show it to each other AND to wear our fancy shoes and be silly! We have done a party every year since the business began. At first they were fondue affairs on our tiny back porch with lots of beer and bread and cheese. Since we have outgrown our own house we go to a different place each year. This party was so nice as the Globe is homey and the food is really great but it's not too expensive (shhh! don't tell!) which makes my spouse happy. He has to balance the books, after all. I have thought about getting a professional photographer to document the party and think I will do that next year. About half of my photos were a bit blurry...musta been the Pomegranate Margaritas!