Cheap handmade decorating for Christmas tree in log home?

Can you use a sewing needle and a glue gun? lots of handmade ornament ideas out there that don't even need a pattern.

Fabric yo-yos sewn together for a wreath or garland, f'rinstance. Ornaments made by tracing around cookie cutters and buttonhole-stitching them together using embroidery floss (which costs a quarter a skein at most hobby shops) with a little batting to plump out the middle.

Small "ocho de dios" made with craft sticks and leftover yarn. Pompom animals (bugs & stuff, there's a link below).

Beads made of long strips cut from shiny colored magazine pages, wound tightly into rolls and glued down, strung together to make a garland or dangles.

Snowflakes cut from stiff paper or cardboard and sprinkled with glitter.

Cut strips of cotton fabric about two inches wide. cut from old shirts or blown out denim pants. Wash them and throw them in the dryer to fray.

Use them to tie bundles of cinnamon sticks you get at the grocery store (they are cheaper in the hispanic food section from a company called Badia) or you could tie three candy canes together, or tie them in bows on the branches.

For the lodge look, get some fleece in a nice snow winter motif.

From three yards you can change a room decor. lay fabric out flat and pull one corner to the opposite side forming a triangled end. Cut along the raw edge to make a perfect square. Cut four inch long one inch wide strips to fringe your new throw all the way around.

cut one rectangle 14" wide and twice the length plus foour inche of an average throw pillow. Cut strips to fringe all around then place pillow on one end and fold over the rest to cover the pillow, tie every other fringe together to encase pillow in its new fringed cover.

cut rectangles of fleece eight inches wide and the length of coffe tables, end tables and add some length for over hang. Use as table runners for the season.

Use whatever scraps are left over to make strips for bows on tree, bannisters, chair backs, etc.

Here's one from the pages of history

Take an orange, make shallow cuts into the skin in a grid pattern, at the intersections of the cuts insert a clove

looks cool, smels nice, old tradition

Hobby Lobby has lots of little things that dont cost much. You can make most of the stuff yourself.It is a great store for decorating for any season on a budget.

A friend of mine strung popcorn & cranberries in a garland. This was something she did as a family craft. I was worried about bugs but she said she never had a problem. She also used a plaid fabric cut into strips and loopy pretzels ----@----@----@. She lived in a log home also.

Get some red plaid cloth or ribbon and make ribbons to attach to the tree.

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