Love your shelf and the rustic paneling on your wall. Lots of neat "collectibles" on it too. The garland looks neat, so did you make the poinsettias? Cute little ornaments too, are those the press on letters? My DIL has one of those neat machines that will cut out all kinds of things--will have to ask her if she can do letters like those--that's such a nice idea for personalized ornaments. Don't tell your family any of it was easy--it's good for them to think you are a genius! LOL

Luvs

Thanks Luvs. This is my favorite room. The sun room. It has old barn wood on two walls and the other two walls are painted red. The shelf my hubby made..we love antiques so the things on the shelf have been collected through the years. I Posted the instructions for the poinsettia garland on the Crafts side. Here they are here. The letters on the balls are stickers I picked up at Hobby Lobby. A co-worker suggested I fill the glass balls with something. I am going to try to fill them with fake snow.

What You Need

* Red chenille bump stems (four for each flower)
* 8-millimeter natural round wooden beads (six for each flower)
* Thin wire

How to Make It

Note: One blossom measures about 5 1/2 inches across.

1. Fold each end of a chenille stem to the center of the stem; twist the ends around the center.
2. Pinch the stem at the folds to form the petal points. Shape the stem between the points and the center to create a double-petal piece. Make a total of four double-petal pieces.
3. Layer the double-petal pieces in pairs to form two "X" shapes.
4. Wire the pairs together at the center.
5. Attach six beads to the center of each with wire. (I used white beads instead)
6. Make additional poinsettias for a garland in the same manner, except slip one end of a chenille stem through a petal of the adjacent poinsettia before folding it to the center and twisting the end in place.

Oh my goodness, I didn't realize you could even still get the chenille bumps. You sure brought back some memories for me with that. Many years ago, I used to make lots of flowers using it. It is fun to work with and I really like how you did your centers on the poinsettias. Any chance you remember the "fur" flowers? I made tons of those and sold them too. Luvs

I like the garland with poinsettias, it's lovely! The kind of garland I'd like for my living room :)

Thanks everyone........funny how things always come back around in time :-)

Kim