The Hipster Home

For three years straight, I’ve participated in the Freshly Blended Ornament Swap. The only difference between this year and the last is I’ve got this blog to share with you the amazing ornaments I receive! Without further ado, I finally received my first ornament from Kathleen by way of Meryl of My Bit of Earth. Thanks Meryl and Kathleen! It’s currently residing on Stumpy, our plant Christmas Tree placeholder.

Oh my goodness, WHAT IS IT?!?

Look, a note! Aww, Meryl is surprising some family members by doing their ornaments for them. Magically, ornaments must start showing up at the relative’s house! Very sweet.

It’s a sparkly, two-sided felt snowflake. Fantastic! This is going to look great on The Hipster Home tree (TBD what exactly that is).

Would you like to see what other people are making for the ornament swap? It’s your lucky day because there is a dedicated Flickr group where you can see what people from other swap groups are sending.

Curious as to what I’m making? It’s still not 100% but I wanted to make something this year with all those horrible advertisements we get in the mail. The paper quality isn’t great but is perfectly lightweight for this project and quite colorful. Better yet, it’s FREE! Here’s one version so far:

(man iPhone photos sure got slick, didn’t they?) I think a tree full of these things would look rad. Do you make ornaments for your tree?