My Latest Projects

One of the project I just finished is this stool I made for Delia. She is just out of reach for the light switch in the downstairs play room(which will soon be her room!) and thought it would be fun to make a little stool for her. Hopefully she will not destroy the cute added ribbons on it! Crossin' my fingers!

With my second project I waited to make after the holidays so I could get the ornaments I wanted at 75% off!! I also wanted to use plastic because I know the glass ones will break! since my door is so big, I wanted to make a bigger one than the coat hanger the directions called for. But my biggest problem was the type of wire I got. It was only 16 gauge and a hanger is more like 8(the lower the number the heavier it is). After stringing on all my ornaments in the pattern I wanted, they were much too heavy and sunk into an oval rather than a circle. So I took about half of them off hoping this would solve it. It was a little better, but still not right. So I could either, unstring them all and wait to get heavier wire...or...I could improvise! (which is usually the road I go down because I am soooo impatient!) I still thought the hanger would be too small(after all my main ornaments were a bit larger than the regular ones) so I tied tiny loops of wire at the top about 6 inches apart and strung them with some twine to even it into more of a circle, it seemed to work, but the ornament placements make it look a little awkward. This project wasn't hard at all, but very time consuming and I just didn't want to try and perfect it anymore. So here is the end result..completely not what I was expecting and the bow at the top is hidden, which I may change later. I had so much fun making it despite my bumps in the process. I will definitely try finding a much heavier wire, and if not..then the good old hanger will have to do, after all I do have some ornaments left! Thanks for the idea Tracy..I still like it!