Taking a break from fashion to share a fun family activity we did over Thanksgiving and how you can recreate and do the same!
The Supplies:
- Satin Balls
- Beads
- Pearl Beads (small, medium, large)
- Glass Colored Beads
- Pins
- Thin gold and silver
- Colored balls on top (also here)
- Ribbon
- Sequins (also here)
- Tassels (short and long)
- Thimble
Starting Out:
- Gather inspiration from online or vintage ornaments
- Organize your supplies (we used cupcake tins for the sequins)
- Start pinning -- just place your sequins/beads/ribbon where you want it to go and pin it down. The top and bottom of the satin balls are a little more dense but you just need to find the perfect angle to push them in
- Remember to use your thimble!
My family and I made these over Thanksgiving and we had a blast with these! It started because I was looking for ornaments and came across this ornament that I love. But for $39 I thought -- psshh! I could do that myself! -- and so I did.
I've always loved and admired my great grandmas ornaments and overall the ornate beading and detail of other vintage ornaments we have so I decided it would be a fun family activity for us all to do together over Thanksgiving break. So we sat down for about 11 hours and made these ornaments. I won't lie to you -- these take a long time. I would say an hour or two per ball depending obviously on how many pins and how much detail you go in to.
It was a lot of fun planning them out and really you just start pinning a pattern down then adding something else then doing another thing and by the end you have something really fun and unique! I love having these on the tree now and remembering the fun times we had making these! Below are some of the ones I took home:
And heres our mini tree where we were hosting the finished products:
