On Post Christmas Crafting

wreath
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noun
1. an arrangement of flowers, leaves, or stems fastened in a ring and used for decoration or for laying on a grave.

This year, in an effort to advance my "tidying up,"  I decided to sort out and streamline my boxes of Christmas craft things.  

I used to make some new Christmas decorations every year, so I had a large collection of miscellaneous Christmas craft items stashed away in various boxes. I dumped (almost) everything in one box to see what I had all at once and yes that is a single ice skate.

So I sorted and this is what I ended up with.

Being a thrifty soul, I have always saved Christmas ribbons from year to year. Truth be told, I still had some from when my oldest (now 18) was a toddler. I  decided  this was the year I was going to get rid of some of it. After all the Christmas presents had been unwrapped, I gathered up all the ribbon into a pile to see which ones could finally be put to rest.

Problem was, some of them were still to nice to just throw away. What to do?  Then I had an idea! I would make some of the ribbons into ribbon flowers.  

​I got out my "bible" of ribbon flower construction.      ​

I set about making an assortment of ribbon flowers.  My original idea was to save them for next Christmas and use them as package decorations, Somehow though once I had made them, that no longer seemed like the best idea.  Again, what to do? 

I finally came up with something that would use up not only my ribbon flowers but much of my miscellaneous Christmas craft supplies, too.  You guessed it: a wreath!

Now I have fewer boxes of miscellaneous Christmas stuff and a nice new decoration.  I think I will keep it up for a while after the rest of the Christmas things are put away.

Have a fun day!
​Cynthia