For Suz's
bridal shower I made pom pom garland to go with the triangle banner I had already made. I really liked the way it turned out and it didn't take much time at all. I would recommend doing this while watching your favorite tv show because it's so simple and it gets pretty repetitive. :) I might make another one in red and green for my mantel for Christmas!
Materials:
-Yarn
-Scissors
-Embroidery needle
1. Gather your yarn and pick the colors you want to use. This can be made with as many or as few colors as you want. I got a giant bag of yarn at the thrift store for only $6. I don't knit or crochet so this will last me a long time for just using it for craft projects.
Pigeon decided to join me.
2. Depending on how big you want your pom-pom wrap the yarn around 2 or 3 fingers. I wanted smaller pom-poms so I used just two fingers. Wrap the yarn around your fingers about 50 times. My yarn had different thicknesses, so I wrapped the thicker yarn around my fingers about 40 times and the thinner yarn around my fingers about 60 times. Make sure not to wrap too tight or you'll turn your fingers purple and it will hurt!
3. Slide the looped yarn off of your fingers and tie it around the middle really tight with a piece of yarn of the same color.
3. Cut the looped ends on each side of where you tied the yarn. Move the strands yarn around so it is more spherical in shape.
4. Trim the pieces of yarn that are too long to make an even sphere.
5. Thread an embroidery needle with yarn and thread each pom-pom through the center to turn your pom-poms into garland.
6. Hang it up and enjoy!
On Monday for FHE Jensen and I decorated Christmas ornaments. It wasn't really FHE, but by calling it that Jensen couldn't make any excuses to not decorate them with me. We had a lot of fun! (At least I did) The ornaments didn't quite look like I was imagining them, but they did end up pretty cute. Tomorrow I will show a very simple tutorial for decorating your own ornaments.
It's now Christmas time in our house! Jensen and I put our first real Christmas tree up on Sunday night. Last year we put up a tiny tree in our tiny apartment, but it didn't have quite the same effect as a full sized tree. I even have enough ornaments to cover the sides of the tree you can see! My mom gave me and my sisters an ornament every year growing up, and sometimes we got 2 or 3 if she found a lot she liked.
I cooked my first Thanksgiving meal for people other than just Jensen and me this year. Jensen and I has some friends of ours who also live far from family over for Thanksgiving dinner. I was very proud of my cooking skills. I was afraid my turkey would be really dry or not cooked all the way but it was great! We ate an early dinner, watched a movie and took a nap, ate some more, and went pre- Black Friday shopping.
Thanksgiving cooking and feasting and black Friday shopping is hard work. Especially when I had to work on Thanksgiving and work after Black Friday shopping. That means I am pooped tonight. And that means I need some warm hot chocolate and an early bedtime. Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and Black Friday!
Jensen and I are enjoying the night in tonight eating yummy dinner and relaxing. Right now we're curled on in a warm blanket on the couch with our kitty while Jensen plays video games and I plan some Christmas crafts I want to make in the next few weeks. 
