Quirky ornaments with personality.

[sheepBlue]

I've been loving all the awesome ornament ideas being tossed around here. I've come up with a few of my own to contribute...   

Meet Mr. Pickle. This is my take on the traditional Christmas pickle. I've always wanted one but never had one. I finally made this for addicted2knitting in the December Birthday swap and now of course I have to make one for me  I shaped a bit of foil to be roughly the size of a small pickle and covered it with clay. I think it gave it very realistic curves and wrinkles like a pickle has. The arms and legs are wire (I got the idea from the BentObjects guy http://www.bentobjects.blogspot.com/) and I thought it was appropriate to glue the whole body to a fork  I wish I had more tools so I could have molded the fork more but as it was all I had the strength for was to bend it 



I also made a2k a "birthday" ornament since her birthday is on the 24th. I got the idea from all the cool altoid tin ornaments I've been seeing - its made from a small oval gift box (the lid was turned into another ornament) that I painted sky blue. I mod poged a snowflaky background (I don't know if you can actually see it in the picture) and then sculpted a tiny winter tree, snow landscape, and dog (modeled after a2k's pup) to fit in the box. I used wire for the tree frame. After baking, I carefully folded up a handful of tiny paper boxes that I wrapped with one strand of embroidery floss to be the presents. I glued those to the branches, dotted with glue, and sprinkled liberally with glitter. On the back is a little description of the tree and its significance.



Lastly, I made a simple tree of life ornament out of a bangle and some mixed white/clear/iridescent beads.



Let me know what you think 

 

[ninjanator]

all of these are fantastic but the pickle one takes the cake

[pinokeeo]

These are really great.  I love the pickle.  And the tree story is very unique and very wonderful.

[asile153]

Oh my!  I love Mr. Pickle.

[CaffeinePirate]

Oh my god Mr Pickles is amazing! Like, i would pay good money for that is a shop sort of amazing. Love the fork too, nice touch!

[joanieponytail]

My favorite is the tree of life. I can picture it twinkling in the lights.

[chattyKathi]

fabulous! Absolutely fabulous!!