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Today’s Project
On the 10th day of our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway, my true love gave to me…these Christmas Ornament Salt and Pepper Shakers from Polyform Products!
MATERIALS
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premo! Sculpey® Accents 2oz. Red Glitter – 1 Block
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premo! Sculpey® Accents 2oz. Frost White Glitter – 1 Block
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premo! Sculpey® Accents 2oz. Green – 1 Block
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Sculpey® Clay Conditioning Machine
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Sculpey® Super Slicer
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Sculpey® Acrylic Clay Roller
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Etch’n Pearl Set
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Circle Graduated Cutters
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Awl
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Hammer
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Round jars with screw tight lids
INSTRUCTIONS
- You can transform any jars with screw tight lids into salt and pepper shakers by punching holes in them with a hammer and awl. I chose round jars so they would look like Christmas ornament balls.
- Sheet Red Glitter through the clay conditioning machine on the thickest setting. Make sheet that is long enough to wrap around one of the jars and wide enough to cover it top to bottom.
- Cut a straight edge along one of the short ends. Wrap the clay all the way around the jar and trim the end to form a neat seam. Smooth the seam with your fingers.
- Gently form the clay to the shape of the jar working toward the bottom.
- Bend the clay around the bottom edge of the jar.
- Use a circle cutter to trim the edge of the clay so that it looks neat on the bottom. Remove excess clay and smooth the edge with your fingers.
- Gently form the clay to the shape of the jar working toward the top.
- Trim away excess clay.
- Roll Frost White Glitter into very skinny strings. Cut off 1” and 2” lengths.
- Taper the ends of the white pieces and form curly-qs. Start by adding the decorations in a N, S, E, W pattern.
- Add more and more curly-qs as you like all around the shaker. Lightly press the decorations on so that they attach to the red clay but don’t smash them.
- Add tiny pearls of white with the small Etch’n Pearl tool. Repeat the process on the second jar with green background clay instead of red to make a set of shakers. Bake the shakers at 275 for
30 minutes. Fill with salt & pepper when they are completely cool.
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My favorite Christmas decoration of all time is a plaster of paris ornament of my child’s hand when she was 3. Now she is 23!
My favorite decoration is an ornament my grandmother (my best friend)started and I finished because she passed before getting it done. It’s nothing fancy but it’s the last thing we did together. It’s been placed at the top of the tree for the last 27 years.
My favorite Christmas decoration is the angel my son made out of a magazine
I love the homemade ornaments my children made in day care – they have small photos of them included that are so precious! Just construction paper, photo and lots of glitter!
My all time favorite decorations are the 6 salt dough angels my great grandmother made for my first Christmas. They are lovingly put on my tree every year. This year the angels are 46 years old, but still just as beautiful and sparkly as there were when she made them. She has been gone for 25 years, but I feel as if she is with me every Christmas.
My favorite ornament is of an angel my daughter made in school when she was in first grade. She is now 42 years old. Made with clothes pin and paper.
I love the ceramic ornaments that my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter has painted to hang on the tree.
my favorite ornament is a train ornament from hallmark that lights up and moves,it was the !st ornament we bought for our !st tree many years ago
A family of balsa wood animal ornaments made by my children, ALWAYS on the tree!
My favorite Christmas decoration was a recipe card made by my four year old son. His teacher clipped it to a close pin. It has decorated my tree for 46 years. Each year I suprise my son with these cookies,we hug and have a joyfull tearfull cry of celebration.
This is an impossible question to answer. I have so many hand made ornaments from my children and grandchildren. If I can lump them as one that’s what I would pick.
A handmade ornament my mom made with a native scene inside a decorated duck egg,
A crochet angel.
My most favorite ornament is my grandmas crocheted snowflakes. She passed when I was 8 and those are so dear to my heart around this time of year.
My favorite Christmas Decoration is one of those light up Christmas trees that I made in ceramics class when I was a child. I still have it and it still works to light up our holidays.
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I like the Nativity scene that my husband’s aunt made.
My favorite Christmas decoration is a set of small glass angels that my grandson bought at his school’s store. He was in first grade and bought them with his own money. They will always hold sentimental memories for me because of his smile when I opened the box.
My favorite Christmas decoration is a pair of swags I made from leftover green garland, cream colored wired ribbon edged in gold, 2 sizes of burgundy ball ornaments with gold floral and swirl patterns on them, and small antique gold ball ornaments. I wired all the balls onto the garlands in a random waterfall pattern, then used the ribbon to tie a bow at the top of each swag and hung them on either side of the entry between my living room and dining room. They are absolutely gorgeous!
Oh man, we have way too many to select just one or two…there are several items from the very early years of my parents’ marriage; there are a whole slew of ornaments that I and my five siblings have made plus ones associated with the grandkids; and all the ornaments our family has collected from vacations and events such as the Rockettes’ iconic high kick.
The handprint wreaths my kids made when they were little.
My favorite Christmas decoration of all time is musical Christmas lights that played Silent Night. Very relaxing and pretty.
I love the ornaments that I marble painted.
My most cherished ornaments are from my grandmother and her mother. There are several different crafts involved, but they are all well loved.
My favorite Christmas decoration is the tiny purple tree just the right size for my tiny little apartment, a tree about 18″ tall, with purple and white lights and tiny ornaments, just right to put atop a storage tower… well out of reach of my cat! I love purple; wasn’t planning to bother putting a tree up in my disappointingly small apartment, then found the purple one on clearance. My favorite color, just the right size 🙂
Your’s is a point of view where real inigllteence shines through.
My mother crocheted Christmas angels one Christmas, each one a little different. I still have them and they are my favorite of all time.
My favorite is a tattered looking angel dressed in a wool coat with holes and patches, holding a bid. She looks like a hardworking angel.
Anything my 3 year old daughter makes!
My favorite decoration of all time is a paper garland my son and I made together when he was 3, (he’ll be 23 this year) it still goes on the tree every year..I’ve been waiting all week for this giveaway, I only enter the ones I really want to win.
My favorite Christmas decoration is an ornament made by my son and I am not sure of material
It has to be the tree! No matter what other ornaments or decorations I put up, the tree is what makes it Christmas!
My favorite holiday decoration of all time is candles on a Xmas tree
Our Christmas Tree.
Have several favorites…the ornaments my 4 Kiddo’s made when they were in grade school!!! Treasures to this Momma’s Heart!! 🙂
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69 years ago for their first Christmas tree my parents made star ornaments from paper and wax or glue. I have the ones that have survived the many trees since.
My favorite decoration is a golden angel I bought with my own money when I was 9 years old and it has topped our Christmas trees ever since.
the ornaments the kids made me when they were in school.
Now that they are grown I treasure them more all the time.
Some of them are 50 years old (the ornaments).
thanks.
My fav Christmas ornament is cinnamon gingerbread men my friend and I made.
Well it’s really hard for me to pin down just one or two, because I have so many with 7 kids and 19 grandkids, some 36 years of collecting them all.since though I must only choose one or two I’m going to choose my oldest and my newest one. First the oldest was one is the one my granny and I made together 51 years ago now, and I cherish that with all my heart for now she’s in heaven watching over all of us as our angel. The second is by my youngest grandchild and he and I made it this year and it’s his hand print, just like my granny had done with me. It brought tears to my eyes to hang his and think about the ages of him and I now, and the ages of my granny and me back then it was the same. It really touched me
My favorite holiday decoration is a German carousel that has a wooden nativity scene that spins when you light the candles.
My favorite holiday decoration of all time is my Bumble the Abominable Snowmonster that plays “Jingle Bells” and dances when you squeeze his paw. It always makes me chuckle. Thanks for offering this great giveaway!
Some cross-stitch Christmas scene pictures my husband stitched and crocheted snowflakes my mother made.
My Star Trek wreath!
Geeky and Festive and I love it.
Our Gone with the Wind ornaments
I love the homemade ornaments we made for the tree. Stringing popcorn, cranberries, cookies. Alot of fun memories. Thanks for the chance to win this delightful prize!
What a cool idea! I would definitely do this one.
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My favorite holiday decoration of all time is the ceramic Christmas tree that my mother gave me many years ago. It has little multi-colored “lights” all around its branches that light up when it is plugged in. I believe that she and my father painted this many years ago while we lived in Germany. Merry Christmas everyone!
A handmade Ceramic light up Christmas tree.
The old glass ornaments we had on our tree… they were classic and I have found a few reproductions over the years..but nothing like the real real…
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! I have 2 very favorite ornaments of all time. My paternal grandmother left me the angel tree topper and a large gold ribbon. Both of these decorations were on her Christmas tree every year. I have put them on my tree every year, since becoming an adult. They not only remind me of my Grams, but take me back to my childhood.
My favorite Christmas ornament of all time is a tiny creche scene that was made on the West Bank, which I bought in a fair trade craft store.
I have an angel door-hanging made out of twigs. Gorgeous!
My favorite decoration of all time is from my son, Kingsley. His father and I made an imprint of his hand in clay and hang it from the tree. Since his was only a little over two months old at the time it was such a small ornament. We glazed it light blue. It is my favorite ornament that my favorite little guy gets to put on the tree every year. His six-year old hands are much larger, they grow up too fast.
Homemade tree ornaments with my kids picture or handprint etc!!
Twinkle lights are my favorite, as well as photos from Christmases past.
My favorite holiday decoration is the ornament that we got our son for his very first Christmas.
My favorite ornament is a little box with snow (made with cotton balls) and other handmade homemade play dough and painted christmas theme ornaments inside the box. We loved it so much when we received it last Christmas from our little granddaughter we never put it away with the other Christmas decorations, but have left it on the bottom of an end table so we can see it every day.
My favorite ornaments are the little pipe cleaner people my mom would make and then put together a snow scene under our Christmas tree when I was a child. They are now cherished by my children and their children and even their children. To possess one of the originals is very special. Mom is gone from us for now and we are thankful for the memories and legacy of crafting she has left us. She crocheted beautiful bedspreads and hand quilted more quilts than I can count, every one original and beautiful. But the humble little pipe cleaner people will always be my favorite ornament and cherished possession.
My favorite decoration of all time, for the home, is the smiles on the faces of visitors. What could be better?
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I have a set of antique mercury glass candy canes- they have been my favorites since I was a kid, and I’m 60 years old!
My daughter was sick and I travelled by bus twice a week to see her. On the trip, I crocheted an angel. All my prayers, tears, and hopes are worked into those stitches. It worked! She is a healthy mother, with kids of her own now. The angel and I have many memories that we share again every Christmas. Crafts can help people in so many ways.
Each ornament means something, my absolute favorites are the ones we made when our son was 15-16 in the 90’s. We spent every Saturday night for 3 months making those ornaments!
My favorite is the tiny nativity my brother-in-law made for me. The manger was made out of toothpicks.
Gingerbread houses.
Angels are my favorite
My favorite decoration is a spiked ball ornament we made as kids out of recycled aluminum from what was left over from milk bottle caps from the dairy my dad used to work for when we were kids. Am I showing my age or what?
I have a titanic ornament my husband bought for me years ago.
I love the ball ornament that my daughter made me!
I like the family ornament from Vancouver that we have.
The ones that my kids have made me.
My favorite Christmas decoration of all time is…….Christmas Pyramid
My favourite decoration is the live tree brought in with all its lovely evergreen smell and inevitable dropped needles here and there. The tangle of lights each year to wrap on its unevenly placed branches and finding the right ornament to hang in the “holes”. Dad’s secret tree feeding recipe to keep it from losing needles over the holidays fed to it regularly by crawling under it, branches poking down your neck.
My favourite decoration is a big, fussy, messy, tradition which makes it a big event that the whole family participates in. It’s worth it.
I love the EEYORE ornament my brother-in-law got for me.
My favorite is the ones my kids made me
My favorite Christmas decoration is a Jim Shore Santa.