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| This star was pieced together from scraps while waiting for Allen to bring home more felt from the States. |
January 2, 2014
This is a post short on words and long on pictures. A friend at church loaned us an artificial tree for Christmas this year because they weren't going to be needing it because they were spending Christmas in the States. The tree turned out to be a very large 9 foot tree. Thankfully they had left the lights on it. But the big problem was ornaments for the tree. We didn't want to buy ornaments that we were just going to have to leave here. I got the idea to make felt ornaments from Emma and Rachel's Homeschool Co-Op Craft Class where they made a stocking ornament out of felt. My sister, Anna, had sent the girls a stack of felt back in October when they first got excited about sewing. I dug through what remained of the stack and decided to make some star ornaments and use the craft buttons my sister sent along with the felt. The stars turned out to be fun to make and the more stars I made, the more ideas I had for other things to put on the stars. Emma and Rachel helped me make some stars too. It's a craft project that turned out to be a lot of fun and easy to take along anywhere: the beach, homeschool co-op, and even Cambodia. I'm going to be sad to take down my tree and put the ornaments away.
I had family asking me to put pictures of the stars online for them to see, so the rest of this post is just pictures of all the stars we made. Enjoy!
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| We started out simple. |
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| Then we got more complicated. |
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| Rachel's Star |
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| Emma's Star |
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| Emma's Star |
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| Go Blue! |
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| Batman Star in our Superhero Series suggested by Nate |
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| Captain America in the Supherhero Series |
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| Superman in the Superhero Series |
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| In honor of our Pride and Prejudice fans and finishing the book 2 days before Christmas |
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| The first one in my first set of Nativity Stars |
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| Rachel helped me make the Angel Star for my first Nativity Set. I cut out shapes, she sewed. (But I did the eyes and halo.) |
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| Shepherd Star |
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| Three Kings Star...the Nativity Set is complete. |
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| Nativity Set Starter for Nate |
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| Nativity Set Starter for Rachel |
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| Nativity Set Starter for Laura |
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| Nativity Set Starter for Emma |
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| Shell Star done by Rachel to remind her of the beach. |
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| The first star that Rachel did...I cut out the heart shape and star shape, she did the rest. |
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| Rachel's Holly Leaf Star. I cut out the leaf shapes for her, she did the rest. |
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| Choose the Right Star |
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| Go Cougars! |
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| Thailand Flag Star...kinda looks like it's waving, doesn't it? We'll just pretend I planned it that way. |
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| Christmas Music Star |
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| I Love to See the Temple Star |
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| Brazil Flag Star in honor of our missionary sister in Brazil |
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