Gallery Fifty Eight: Christmas

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Friday, 14 December 2012

White Gingerbread Men Hosts a Hot Cocoa Bar

Between the dining room and kitchen is this "junk" table

What a way to separate two rooms right?

At times the table is my work table but since it is in the middle of the apartment it easily becomes the drop off point by all occupants.

I was inspired on Pinterest to build a Hot Cocoa or Hot Chocolate Bar. I just didn't know where to start. My mind was bustling with all kinds of ideas so I decided to focus on a pair of cookie jars I found at the Salvation Army (Guam).

Aren't they adorable? I even bought a Scentsy lamp to match the cookie jars.

I began building my Cocoa Bar with a garland.

I crocheted stars out of twine string. Boy oh boy was that a struggle but I so loved the texture the twine created.

READY TO GO UP TO THE TOP OF THE HOT COCOA BAR?

Here we go...............

Oh me, Oh My!!!

Are those ghosts that we will come upon?

Why those are Gingerbread Men.

White Gingerbread Men?

Why Not............Right?

Ladies and Gentlemen

Meet the White Gingerbread Men Duo

They are your host of the

"Hot Cocoa Bar"

Would you believe it took me only 3 hours to make these guys?

They hover over 4 jars full of different flavors of cocoa mixes.

All sit in a wicker tray I found in

Yep........you guessed it

My favorite thrift store in Birkenfeld Germany.

I crocheted the covers for each jar and I used twine to cover the jar lids and crocheted a knob for each lid.

Look at how I used the twine to serve as the icing lining on the Gingerbread Men and that Gingerbread smile.

Mr. Gingerbread Man says
"Have a cup o Cocoa"

This sure looks a lot better than being a "drop off" table.

Oh Wow............a candy cane tree.

This little ornament was something I found while thrifting. Doesn't it look like a Gingerbread Santa?

Thank you for visiting my Hot Cocoa Bar.

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Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Wooden Christmas Tree Crochet Ornaments

I toiled over what I wanted to decorate my re-vamped wooden Christmas tree with.

All the ready made ornaments I was looking at were not tickling my fancy. I made some book page birds and hung them on the tree but it looked like book page birds hanging on a wooden tree. It was just not connecting.

WHAT TO DO - WHAT TO DO - WHAT TO DO

Isn't it something when an idea just hits you? Well it did when I was crocheting sweaters for my dogs.

Meet my pugs......MA-kytah and Shady. MA-kytah was born in Australia and she is my rescue pug and Shady was born in Guam - she is mine because I wanted a black pug. They are my "island" pugs. The love the tropical weather. When we moved to Germany it was in the dead of winter and when I take them out to pottie they were so uncomfortable and literally freezing their curly tails off. They don't like cold weather. So I bundle them up just so that we don't spend a long long time outside waiting for them to do their number.

So anyway I'm crocheting away with their white sweaters and I thought why not crochet ornaments for the wooden Christmas tree? Yes - crochet ornaments it is!

Originally the tree was for candles.
See the holes at the end of the arm?

I wanted to deck that tree.

Check out this angle.

Now for the featured pieces - compliments of awesome crochet-ers on You Tube.

I was able to crochet this stocking while watching

hectanooga 1

A pair of mittens were designed and crocheted by me.

But the hearts (the tiny little hearts) I learned by wathing

littlebirdiesecrets

I loved making this rolled flower and I learned it from

hectanooga 1

Here is the heart again but with a bigger crochet noodle
Littlebirdiesecrets

This is an icycle from

hectanoogle 1

This wreath was by

crochetaddictUK

A lovely flower by

DzCrochetCreations

This is my white pug I crocheted just using single crochet all around.

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Monday, 3 December 2012

5 Old Books & 200 Chapters Christmas Tree

Here is a Picture.

A typical picture of my son and my 10 year old ward (whose mom is deployed) who are horsing around. Right behind my son "z" you could see half a pug. That's MA-kytah. Right next to MA-kytah is a Lightstring Tree. You know - the kind you put outside in your lawn during Christmas. Well........we don't have a yard as we live in an apartment so I am so thrilled to share with you what I did with this Lawn Lightstring Tree.

Do you wanna see?

Let's start at the bottom

Can you see what I used?

If you guessed pages from a book then you are correct

We are working our way up the tree which is pretty much how I was able to get those pages on by starting at the bottom.

Here we go.........up, up, up

To the top. Isn't this grapevine star fabulous? It was a thrift shop find at the Red Cross store in a town called Kusel, Germany. Oh how I love thrifting.

And now a full view of the Lightstring Tree

My 10 year old ward and I worked on this tree together. She called it the

5 Old Books & 200 Chapters Christmas Tree.

She is amazing because she counted every page we put on the tree and it came out to exactly 200 Chapters. Not sure how many pages. I guess at her age it's all about how many chapters she reads.