Gallery Fifty Eight

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Through the 4th Floor Door Christmas Entrance

Living on the 4th floor of our apartment unit, I must climb 62 steps or 7 flights of stairs to get to my front door.

Yep 62 steps up and down everyday at least 5 to 6 times a day.

I was contemplating whether or not to decorate my front door. The other 5 occupants may or may not see my Christmas decorations but certainly my 4th floor neighbor would (at least).

Oh what the heck. Let's take a tour:

I made these Stocking Santa dolls many years ago. Throughout their lives they decorated my home in Guam. This is their first time to be displayed in Germany.

Oh lookey.

The Tri-Triangular Santas

Do you see the rag garland around the door? It was a comforter that I found at the thrift shop. Isn't it beautiful?

I garnished the rag garland with egg shell angel pugs. Oh yes. I love pugs.

Oh me, oh my look at what I found in my favorite thrift store. And where is my favorite thrift store?

Birkenfeld, Germany.

This cute little girl's ice skate only costed me 1 Euro.

I so love how the little girl's ice skate became the focal point of........

my ice skate wreath.

And now I take you

THROUGH THE 4TH FLOOR DOOR

I hope you enjoyed your visit.

Next on my project list for Christmas is

the hot cocoa bar.

Until next time.

Tah-tah for now.

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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

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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.