My husband and I seem to love doing fun projects at Christmas time. One year we made snowflake gingerbread cookies that were decorated so ornately and beautifully that we used them as decorations rather than eating them like we intended to do. (We copied designs out of a Martha Stewart book! Don’t be fooled into thinking we’re that creative!) Another year we made boxwood wreaths and trees to display throughout the house. They were extremely simple and thoroughly enjoyed because they brought a little bit of the “outdoors” inside. Quite festive!
But my favorite and most memorable project was when we made all the ornaments for our tree as we prepared for our first Christmas together! Maybe it was the excitement of finally celebrating together as husband and wife, maybe it was the pride that accompanied accomplishing something together, or maybe it was the paint that was accidently splattered all over the carpet in our one bedroom apartment! (Yeah, that was my fault.) But whatever the reason, making ornaments goes down in my hall of fame of most enjoyable Christmas memories with Paul. And…6 years later we are still hanging the same ornaments on our tree! In fact, we love them so much that they became the Christmas project I did with my 2nd graders every year when I was teaching. Paul would come in one day and help the kids a couple at a time so I could continue teaching. What a guy!
My friend Laurie, just made the same ornaments with her kiddos and they turned out beautiful! You can click here and find her blog that gives step-by-step directions on how to make them. They really are so easy to do and are quite hard to screw up. She asked me to post a picture of my tree just for fun so here it goes…
