Movie Quote Ornaments

For fun I decided to make these Christmas movie quote baubles. Or Christmas moments in a movie, in the case of Mean Girls.

Firstly, writing with paint and a paint brush is hard y'all! Especially when it's on a rounded surface.

But I did my best.

I'm not even sure this quote is in Home Alone, it might just be, "keep the change, ya filthy animal", but some store had made a jumper with the Christmas version on so if it was good enough for them, I'd go with it.

Starbucks have started selling candy canes at the counter and when me and my friends saw them we came out with this quote from Mean Girls. Then a little while later when we were sat down we heard some girls do the same thing!

I painted some candy canes on the sides of this bauble, but you can't really see them in the photos.

This one is my favourite. I'm really happy with the way I painted the letters.

And I love the film Elf, and I do come out with this quote whenever someone mentions Santa.

What are your favourite quotes from Christmas movies?

This Week I...

...have been a little under the weather with a stinkin' cold that's been slowing me down.

But do you know what made me feel better?

Finding out one of my best friends got engaged!!

Lizzi is no stranger to the blog. You'll have seen her featured in a lot of my paintings.

Last week she went on holiday with her boyfriend to New York and he popped the question.

She announced it to us girls whilst out at Cafe Rouge and the people on the surrounding tables were startled for sure by the sudden screaming. We're so happy for our friend.

I didn't get a photo from that night - too much excitement and chocolate pudding - so I thought I would share this one of me and Lizzi at the start of our friendship.

It's the Letchworth Arts Centre's Christmas Craft fair time again and my parents very kindly set up my table for me on Friday as I was working.

I took this photo on Saturday and one item had gone already! These crochet Christmas lights were hung on the front of the table, but have since been sold.

And on Saturday I went to see The Butler.

It is so good.

I first heard about the film during Danny Strong's interview on Kevin Pollak's Chat Show which is my current go-to podcast.

Has anyone seen the film? Did you notice Danny's cameo in it?  

Christmas Speech Bubble Decorations

I'm well and truly in Christmas mode and for this little project  I was thinking of more alternative Christmas decorations.

I was inspired by this plaque that I made many years ago and have hanging in my room.

The hanging speech bubbles are made of Sculpey rolled flat and cut to shape.

You can't really tell from the photos but they're about palm size.

I painted them with white and black acrylic paint.

I like the uneven black lines. I think it gives them character.

That and I find it hard to paint smooth, straight lines.

I think these would look really fun displayed on a Christmas tree but would also work as decorations for other parts of the house.

Do you have any Christmas decorations that aren't the traditional red, green or gold?

This Week I...

...didn't do that much of interest.

I did my usual three days at work. Still not a fan of 10 hour days.

And they gave me some uniform trousers that look like clown pants.

 I did make some more stockings.

And started another little project.

And I discovered that cup holders in cars also make fantastic muffin holders!

Who had a more interesting week than me??

Felt Stockings

In this photo I posted about the Christmas Craft Fair I did the weekend before last you may have noticed the little stockings I had for sale.

 They came about after a trip to, yes, the Scrap Store where my Mum bought this bag of Christmas coloured felt pieces for £2.00.

I think I owe her £2.00.

On the drive home we came up with the idea of making little stockings to sell.

I printed a stocking template of the internet, cut out the pieces and stitched away.

I decorated the stockings with shiny stars and ribbon. 

This particular chocolate bar is the perfect size to fit in the stockings so I stocked up on those.

I made 6 stockings for that craft fair and sold 4, with one woman wanting 8 so I gave her the details of the next fair I'll be at where I'll be ready with more that enough.