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How To Make a Center Piece Out of Christmas Ornaments #Crafts

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Even though I have over 1,000 posts I’m supposed to do, I want to do some posts for me. So I’m posting about how my husband said I went Suzie Homemaker last weekend decorating our dinner table. I went so far overboard I don’t even want to eat at it, the kids on the other hand are ready to have a big fancy meal and try out all the Christmas dishes I got out of storage. So for the center or our table I made a centerpiece out of Christmas ornaments. Here is how you can also make a centerpiece out of ornaments.

‘How To Make A Centerpiece

 

The first thing you need to do is gather your supplies.

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What you will need:

An empty glass jar or vase of some type

Various Ornaments:

A handful of ornaments that you aren’t putting on the tree.
I found three tall candy canes at Target
A box of glittery Peacock feathers (they are hard not soft)

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Directions:

I placed the candy canes and feathers in the jar to see how I wanted them arranged

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Then I started filling the jar with ornaments

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Then before it was completely full I put in the candy canes and then filled it the rest of the way with the star ornaments

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Lastly I put in the peacock feathers

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You could also just as easily fill any container with ornaments and it makes a very easy adorable centerpiece.

A Love of Hallmark Ornaments

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Happy Holidays Hallmark Photo OrnamentQuite simply put, I love Hallmark Christmas Ornaments. My husband and I drool over their Star Wars and Star Trek ornaments every Christmas. Me being the tightwad that I am have never been able to stomach the price of the Hallmark Holiday Ornaments, however, somehow having children makes the price, not quite as important.

One of the frames we just love, are the large array of Our Family Hallmark Photo Ornamentphoto ornaments. We have two we purchased last year, and two I received from Hallmark PR this year. The ones we have last year, one has a family picture and the other has a photo of the kids together. So this year, we did the same thing with the photo frames we received for review.

The Happy Holidays photo frame with the photo of Zoe and Miles playing on the couch plays the song, “Happy Holidays”. It was fun putting it on the tree because Miles man pushed the button about 10 times. Christmas makes me so happy! I adore everything about Christmas, the music, the food, the family time. I LOVE IT.

Jessie Hallmark OrnamentThis year when we were searching for the special ornaments for the kids (we get ornaments for the kids every year, it’s a tradition, it’s been a tradition for my husband and I since we were both kids and we wanted to do it for our own children) we waited a tad too long for one of them.

The kids are very much in Love with everything Toy Story. It doesn’t matter which story, 1, 2, or 3 Miles loves them all. Zoe, prefers the episodes with Jessie of course, which is why we Fisher Price Airplane Hallmark Ornamentpurchased the Jessie ornament for her. Which leads me to what we waited too long for. We wanted to get Miles the High-Flyin’ Friends. Apparently Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments are harder to find especially the Toy Story ornaments. We called every Hallmark Store in the area, and my husband decided to pick another ornament for Miles man. He picked out the Play Family Fun Jet. The Family Fun Jet was still a great big hit. Miles Loves it. He loves airplanes, he loves Our Christmas Tree 2010taking me on blogging trips because he knows that means he will get to see another airplane.

So this is our Christmas tree, it’s filled with lots of love, beautiful lights, and plenty of meaningful ornaments.

We received A Hallmark Sample Kit of assorted Hallmark items, including the two photo frames you see in the first pictures. I was in attendance at a party sponsored by Hallmark at Blogher 2010 and connected with their PR firm there. None of this affects the fact that I have and always will love Hallmark. They have excellent products all year round, Precious Moments were always a big tradition growing up, but now, it’s mainly a Christmas store, and of course, I can always find the perfect card in there too. Thank you Hallmark for the samples. Miles and Zoe also love the Recordable Story book Twas the Night Before Christmas.