Cutesie Wootsie VS Fancy Schmancy

I have envied Candace's Ornament Hanger from the moment I saw it!

Ooooh, the plans I had......

I finally got my version done!

Isn't it funny the things that inspire us?

For me it was some cookie cutters!

I traced them onto wood and cut them out.

And then I had fun decoupaging my left over scraps of paper and doo dads onto them.

And hello GLITTER GLUE!!!

I love cutsie wootsie stuff.....

So, Candace and I went craft hunting this week or better known as "shopping".

We are always looking for something fun to make and do together

and boy did we find some cute ideas!

We couldn't write them down fast enough!

Hence the conversation started about our styles and probably why

we have so much fun together making stuff 

is

I'm Cutesie Wootsie & she is Fancy Schmancy.

There's nothing wrong with either one and usually when we get together we find common ground.

But no matter what I do, I usually end up back at Cutsesie Wootsie.

So which one are you???

Make Your Monday at Twice Remembered

**Snowflakes**

I think I'm the last one to put my Christmas stuff away.  Pretty soon I might be labled as the "crazy" lady on the block that leaves her Christmas lights up all year and hoards 40 cats and kittens in her house. My three year old was so mad I was putting the Christmas tree away.  He still wanted Santa to bring him a Lego Batman and a D.S.  I thought that was funny....

I did save a few snowflake ornaments to hang on my silly ornament tree.  I have some plans for Valentines too....but need to harass my sister to accomplish them.:)

All the ornaments are from Target...I hit the clearance sales and picked up some goodies.  It's always fun to look for things that aren't super "Christmasy" so I can use them year round.

If you want to see how I built this silly thing~ look here.

I'm linking my tree to share at

Twice Remembered's  Make Your Monday

And a PARTRIDGE in a PEAR tree.....

 About a month ago I saw a neat ornament/card hanger in church.  I liked it so much I tuned out a little and studied how to build it. I know bad!  I did mine a little different.  The original hanger was white with a star on it. I did mine in silver.

Autumn from Design Dump put the coolest picture of gold leafed pears sitting in a sterling silver cake platter with a partridge on top. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Sick..I know! I figured I could incorporate my ornament hanger with gold spray painted pears. Not sure if this is hokey or not? Autumn's picture was sooo much classier.

I found all my ornaments( except for the three gold & clear gittered) from a funny little store called Kings. I think I paid a couple of bucks for them and they had fake pears too!

You can find the most unusual things at Kings.....there's a lot of "Grandma" ornaments.  I found a couple that if I tipped them upside down...they could resemble pears!

I used Rust-Oleum's Metallic finish on the hanger and sprayed the pears with 24 KT Gold "brilliant finish:)" also found at Kings. My boys love Kings... for their large assortment of quirky toys, and their entire row devoted to FAKE weapons.

I picked up some dowels and attempted to drill holes.  It was pretty hard getting the holes straight.  Some of my intersecting dowels don't lay straight.

I glued two of these plaques back to back.  I drilled a hole afterwards to insert the large dowel.

The original hanger had little wood discs on the ends, but I couldn't find any at Home Depot and I was too tired to make a trip to the craft store.  I ended up putting some metal washers on the end with a thumb tack through them.  It kind of adds to the metallic look of it, and they were super cheap!:)

I distressed the silver with a little black paint. 

This can really be used for all sorts of things.  Pretty simple.

For the pears,

 I pulled out the original stem and inserted wire with hot glue on it, then bent to make a hook.

I can't remember the blog I saw where they spray painted their ornaments on a tree?  Very smart!

They looked so delicious on the tree outside...I was tempted to keep them out there!

Or...bring a real branch inside...so pretty!

I am losing my Christmas crafting wind....but determined to finish some of my projects. Almost done!