Well, I’ve been absent from the head of the class for a while now, but today I have something very good to share with everyone. No, it’s not pictures of my new house, which is still not in much of a presentable state. Instead, I am sharing the Christmas presents I am making for my parents and sisters. On my side of the family, we draw names among my grandparents and aunt and uncle and my whole family. But with my parents and sisters, we also give each other small gifts. When I was in high school we started with a tradition of $5 or less per person. And strangely, we all wound up getting better stuff. But over the years, the price started creeping up and we started getting more into the presents again, so for the past few years we’ve returned to simple gifts and a stricter price limit. Last year, we all gave each other books we already had in our collections and didn’t really spend any money at all.
This year, the theme is Christmas ornaments, and we’re just giving them from household to household instead of to each person individually. I have been pondering what to do, and was thinking of various ways to make ornaments using my enormous stash of crafting materials. I had pretty much settled on needle felting, and was planning on doing pretty routine Christmas-y things until this afternoon, when I sat down with my wool and needles and block of foam and started playing around. And I came up with this:
Sorry for the photo quality – it’s late at night and I took the picture with my iPhone. But you get the idea. I will add sparkly loops of thread and then there will be little nigiri and maki sushi Christmas ornaments on all our trees.
I love myself so much today. My favorite so far is the 3D lettuce on the dynamite roll at front right.
Go on over and see who else is standing at the head of the class today.
