Starting on another Christmas vignette

Terrible weather today (Friday). Wind chill of -26 C and blowing snow. Better tonight - virtually no wind.

Thursday night, a number of us got together for our condo potluck Christmas dinner. OH, MY, what an incredibly wonderful meal! Got to take some of the extra food home - just like a regular Christmas dinner. Was so full that I couldn't even look at one of my favourite desserts (Leslie's Breton brittle) until Friday.

Only our second year of the potluck dinner in the building but also my second year of contributing a Christmas vignette as a 'door' prize. Olga won it...which pleased me. But Leslie had wanted to win it and her name was drawn from the same pot for a second prize.

Anyway I had already decided that if Leslie didn't win the draw that night, I would make a new vignette for her. So I've started working on it.

This will be the bag I'm doing it in....

The Lemax Christmas tree....

The gold garland is WAY too big so have taken it off using the hair dryer to melt the hot glue attaching it.

Got it started at least.

Christmas Shop, foamcore

The Christmas Shop was finished quite some time ago EXCEPT for one thing....a flamingo.

Sounds silly but my DBIL, Grahame, has this thing for flamingos: so much so that one year he used a flamingo as a Christmas tree topper. So a while back I picked up a flamingo at the Enjoy Centre. It's been sitting on top of the Christmas Shop for ages and today I finally put it in the room.

Sorry that the picture isn't so clear. The Christmas Shop is all glass and mirrors so it's very difficult to get good pictures.

Foamcore: I'm SO excited that this year on Boxing Day, we're hoping to have our youngest new great-niece, Elizabeth, join us. Looking at my living room, I felt I had to 'child-proof' it a bit. I cleaned up a few things but one thing that I felt I needed to do was block off the bottom of the two bookshelves in my living room. I thought that the easiest way to do that would be to cover them with foamcore. The cheapest foamcore I knew of was the $1 sheets from Dollarama.

The foamcore that I saw in Dollarama months ago was somehow not quite right...the paper side was sort of fuzzy... But the pieces I found the other day were SO much like the very much more expensive ones from Michael's that I bought four pieces for future use as well as blocking the bottom of the bookshelves.

down for awhile

I woke up on Saturday with tennis elbow so I'm trying to just play it cool for a few days.

before I forget...

When I was making the agate slice table, there was a price tag on the underside of the agate slice.

Well, of course, I tore it off but then there was the terrible glue left. Thought I could scrape it off with a razor blade - which sort of worked - but not totally.

Couldn't find my Goo Gone!

What to do?

I sprayed the remaining glue with Pam cooking spray! Then wiped it with a paper towel and the glue was gone!

Christmas vignette is finished!

Everything upside down waiting for the moveable glue to dry.

Ran the trim through glue and wrapped it around the tree.

Adding seed bead decorations.

Added some daubs of red nail polish, roo.

OOPS! It's too tall!

Cut off the base - and it fits.

There will be a draw for this at our Potluck Dinner.

Christmas vignette

Off to a great start!

You may recall that originally I was going to make a Christmas vignette in the containers from the chocolates that Val gave me. As we were leaving the MEE Christmas party, Bev gave me her leftover Black Forest cake. Unlike other cake holders, the lid to this one is completely smooth so this will be the setting for my vignette.

First I used the computer to draw two circles: one is 7 1/4" to cut a piece of formcore to cover the base and another 7 5/8" for the carpet.

Here the foamcore is cut and in place.

Some of the pieces of carpet that I looked at.

The carpet template taped to the wrong side of the carpet I chose.

Dry-fitting the carpet.

Gluing the foamcore in place.

This will eventually become a pen.

Trying placement of items.

This piece was from a trophy that I rescued from the garbage (a lot of) years ago.

 It will make a base for this piece of agate that I bought in Nova Scotia some years ago.

Now the carpet is glued in place.

Gift wrapping/card writing table. I have the rolls of wrapping paper in a container by the chair; wrapped presents on the floor; tree ready to be decorated; some rolls of ribbon (not in the picture); scissors; tape; bow; and a bowl that now contains potato chips. Guess I'll need a can of cola to go with the chips, some Christmas cards, the pen and something in the open box.

Think it's coming together.

VERY OFF TOPIC - but interesting!

I love the English language. Don't always use it as well as I should but this exercise that I found on Facebook really spoke to me!

Place the word "only" before each word in this sentence:

She told him that she loved him.

Try it yourself:

Only she told him that she loved him.

She only told him that she loved him.

She told only him that she loved him.

And so on....

Isn't it wonderful?