Christmas Chandelier

Christmas is just so special.

This year for 7 days of December

we had visitors

at our home!

They are gone now, and I am missing

the sounds of children playing,

little finger prints on everything, and

just the joy of having family close.

I just finished more of the ornaments

that we made for out blog hop.

I decided to put them on our 

dining room chandelier.

Here is the dining room.  It is small but cozy.

The dining room chairs have a

bow tied on each one of them with 

tasseled curtain wraps.

I have done this for so long, 

I can't remember how many years ago I started this.

Under the table is a throw rug from Ethiopia,

It is made from sheep hair (no wool there)

woven by hand on large looms.

Rachel brought this home with her when

she came to visit us there.  

I love this rug!

I love to decorate for Christmas,

I have done it for years, and decorating my

chandelier is one of my "things"

I just do.

This year was the change,  I took all the red

out of the decorations and went to

book page, black, white, and green.

First I wrapped the chandelier with a garland,

Then a book page wide ribbon, tying it in spots around

the garland so it would have a swag.

Then I added ornaments.

Glass gold and green ornaments were tied with white

ribbon on the bottom of each light.

Then I added the ornaments I made for the blog hop.

I had to make more ornaments this week to fill the chandelier.

These are some close ups of the ornaments hanging

on the chandelier.

I used:

Glitter Chipboard - gold and silver

Classic Glitter Swirl CS in white (made the medallions from this)

White tear drops

Silver dew drops

Black herringbone CS

Clock CS

Classified Sticker (small clock faces)

old paperback books

On the bottom of each of the bells,

I used a corsage pin and a black crystal 

from Connies Crystals,

one of our blog partners this year.

Each ornament is unique in its own way.

I also added some clock faces to some of them.

I'm really happy how this all turned out.

Our new look for Christmas,

at home with us.

Have a wonderful week.

Have a Very Merry

Christmas Season!

Robin