2024 Begins with Fun

If I were more disciplined, I would constrain myself to writing the first traditional blog entry of 2024, i.e., the annual post of my goals for the new year.  Instead, I decided to share the happiness of my first quick completion. There will be plenty of time for generating goals later.

After big projects — and Christmas certainly counts as a big project — I need some short quick finishes to "cleanse my palette", so to speak. Here are six puffy ornaments of angels from different countries that I sewed up just for fun. Their happy faces make me smile. I use ⅜" wide grosgrain ribbon for the hanging loops. At 4½" each, eight loops per yard, they are not too big, not too small, but just right.

I certainly do not need any more of these stuffed trinkets. I have made well over 100 of them, in many, many styles, over the years, enlisting the help of my kids to stuff them. I hang them about the house at Christmas... on the curtain rods, up the stairwell, on the grandfather clock, on garlands, on the piano, on door pulls, on each hutch... sometimes (gasp!) even on the tree. For variety, and not because I did not have enough, I did not hang any on the tree this year.

Making many more of these ornaments is in my future; but for now,
what a FUN way to start out 2024! 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!