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Test your craft skills with these creative ideas for DIY Christmas ornaments. They're easy and fun to make, and can be given as homemade Christmas gifts, too!
Each set contains 20 ornaments, some with glitter or fabric bows and others in a drop shape with a plaid pattern. Although each ornament is different, the overall red, green, white, and gold color ...
Make your own custom wreath with just an egg garland and a grapevine frame. Pick a garland in soft, neutral colors if you're not into the pastel part of the holiday.
A silver nitrate solution is swirled about inside the ornament. This gives the ornament a silver glow. The outside of the ornament is painted or decorated with metal trims, paper clippings, etc. Cotton batting. Cotton batting Christmas ornaments were popular during the German Christmas toy and decoration boom at the turn of the century.
Costume. Costume design is the creation of clothing for the overall appearance of a character or performer. Costume may refer to the style of dress particular to a nation, a class, or a period. In many cases, it may contribute to the fullness of the artistic, visual world which is unique to a particular theatrical or cinematic production.
Handicraft. A handicraft is a traditional main sector of craft making and applies to a wide range of creative and design activities that are related to making things with one's hands and skill, including work with textiles, moldable and rigid materials, paper, plant fibers, clay, etc.
Choose light-weight, oversize ornaments to secure to branches for a festive, eye-catching Christmas decorations in your yard. DigiPub - Getty Images
The fact that Shiny Brite ornaments were an American-made product was stressed as a selling point during World War II. Dating of the ornaments is often facilitated by studying the hook. The first Shiny Brite ornaments had the traditional metal cap and loop, with the hook attached to the loop, from which the ornament was hung from the tree.
The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the Eucharist.
Costume jewelry was also made popular by various designers in the mid-20th century. Some of the most remembered names in costume jewelry include both the high and low priced brands: Crown Trifari, Dior, Chanel, Miriam Haskell, Monet, Napier, Corocraft, Coventry, and Kim Craftsmen.