Thursday, December 22, 2011

Christmas ornaments

I saw this idea early in the summer and couldn't wait to do it with them. All you need is any

-Solid ornament
-white paint
-colored paints (Although I've heard of people using colored sharpie markers)
-Tinsel (optional)
-Black sharpie
-Clear acrylic spray

I painted the kids hands really good with white paint. I used crayola paint. I let that dry overnight before even touching them again. The next day I took an old medicine dropper and put paint in it, then put it inside the ornament and shook it up to coat it whatever color I wanted. I used green for Cole's and red for Eva's. It took quite a few times of putting more paint in to get it completely coated.  For Kennedy's I put red and green tinsel in them. I'm glad I didn't do this for Cole and Eva's because it took forever.

I used a black sharpie marker for the eyes and mouth and wrote his name and year on the palm of the hand. I then took a really thin paint brush and painted the nose and scarf on the snowmen. I'm no artist by any means, so don't mind my "scarves."

I tried to paint Eva's little hand, but she still keeps her hands in a fist and was not happy I tried to pry them open:)  So I ended up painting her feet. I've seen cute ideas where you paint their feet brown and made them into reindeer, but I already had these done. I just wrote her name and year on the opposite side of the ornament. I didn't realize how big her feet were until I did these. Girlfriend has some long feet:)


(Don't mind the picture quality. For some reason I didn't get them in focus when I took them)

Before we painted the inside.





This is what it looks like with tinsel in it.

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Jared and I were married September 29, 2007 and we had our sweet baby boy, Cole, March 8, 2010 and welcomed are precious daughter, Eva, August 29, 2011. I'm a SAHM learning the ropes of having 2 under 2.

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