Christmas Craft Idea #2

Monday, December 1st--I love the story and music of "The Forgotten Carols". I believe Michael McLean has earned his Celestial glory with all the amazing music and stories he's written. After all, he's the reason we have "Mr. Krueger's Christmas"! Years ago, when I was single and very poor, I was attempting to make my apartment look festive on a very meager budget. I bought the "Forgotten Carols" book with a gift card and decided just displaying it on my table didn't do it justice. Besides, I thought it would be cool to read the book and listen to the music while following along placing the matching ornaments on a tree--much smaller ornaments on a much small tree. I wondered how easy it would be to create the ornaments with stuff I already had. I found out it was quite easy!

Here's what I did:

*Use the cardboard of a shoebox to make the ornaments out of

*Go through the "Forgotten Carols" book and copy the ornaments on pieces of paper (to be traced onto the cardboard). When traced, use sharp scissors to cut ornaments out of the cardboard. (I might still have my "templates", if you're local)

*Get some craft paint in: brown, red, beige, white, gray, & burgundy

*Use a black Sharpie for detail

*I used glitter glue over the red cross, star, and Handel's pen

*Raffia glued onto the backs of ornaments to hang

*For the star, I bought inexpensive rhinestones and a large pearl bead--I hot glued the rhinestones on and cut a hole out in the middle and hot glued the pearl bead in. In the back of the star, I glued a strip of cardboard into a circle in order to place the star on the top of the tree

*I found an old scrap of white fabric, cut a strip, and freyed (sp?) it then tied it into a bow

*I found dried flowers and made a small bouquet and tied it with raffia to represent the corsage.

*For the curtain over the innkeepers door, I found another piece of fabric and cut it to fit into the doorway. You can make a pattern on paper and cover the door with that, if you don't have fabric.

*Hang ornaments on small tree with white lights. It's a great conversation piece and reminder of such an amazing story.

If you would like to purchase "The Forgotten Carols" book and/or CD of music, they can be bought at Deseret Book or Seagull Book.

If you're interested in doing this craft and need more details please let me know!