DIY - Snowflake Christmas Ornament

Hi friends,

Once again this year I'm joining a group of bloggers in what we call The 31 Days of Handmade Christmas Ornaments - A full month dedicated to Christmas crafting in hopes of giving you lots of ideas for your holiday decor. 

At the end of this post you'll find the links to all the other 11 ornaments that have already been featured, and you can also find the links to the others ornaments still to come, until the end of the month.

Big thanks to An Extraordinary Day, Cupcakes and Crinoline, Yesterday on Tuesday, and Silly Pearl for all their work at putting together this event.

My ornament, as many of my projects is a repurposed one. Two years ago I scored a bunch of free wooden poles at my local Flea Market. After moving them to a new spot during the big garage cleaning this past Spring, the idea of using the fluted pole as little snowflakes appeared.

I guess you can use a hand saw, but that would be intense work (totally not my thing). I decided to use my Rockwell - BladeRunner saw, and it worked like a charm at cutting all those little flakes. :)

I'm telling you, I got lots of them, more than 100! And they all needed the little hole to pass the ribbon from where to hang. The only problem was, I got too excited with my awesome drill, and instead of drilling only one little hole, I made five, six, and even eight holes on some of the flakes.
Don't worry, that goes FAST. ;)

Then, it was time to play with the wood burning tool. At first, I made a rough draft with a pencil, but after the tenth design, I was a pro! Well, almost.

This is one of those tasks you want to complete while watching one of your favorite TV series, take a break until the next episode and continue.  I haven't finished all of them, and no, I don't watch much TV, no TV series for me, I guess I'm going debate after debate until election day! :D

But, I love what I've done so far! I'm thinking of giving them as little sets to family and friends.

Of course, I'm going to keep some of them to decorate my Christmas tree...

And maybe some more to use as present tags. Ha, I just thought of adding names to some of those. Talk about personalization. ;)

So many possibilities and hey, free! ;)

Below is the list for all the Handmade Christmas Ornaments. And don't forget to stop by tomorrow to check the awesome Handmade Ornament my friend Vanessa from DIY 180 is sharing.

An InLinkz Link-up

Here are all 31 Bloggers in order of their appearance:

Day 1 - The Silly Pearl :: Day 2 -Yesterday on Tuesday
Day 3 - Cupcakes and Crinoline :: Day 4 - An Extraordinary Day
Day 5 - Knick of Time :: Day 6 - Pet Scribbles :: Day 7 - Simply Kelly Designs
Day 8 - Town and Country Living :: Day 9 - Petticoat JUNKtion
Day 10 - The Everyday Home :: Day 11 - Up on Tippy Toes
Day 12 - Remodelando la Casa :: Day 13 - DIY 180 :: Day 14 - 504 Main
Day 15 - Sum of their Stories :: Day 16 - At Home with Jemma
Day 17 - The Kim Six Fix :: Day 18 - Shabby Art Boutique
Day 19 - Morena's Corner :: Day 20 - My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia
Day 21 - Our Southern Home :: Day 22 - Domestically Speaking
Day 23 - The Crafting Nook :: Day 24 - Sweet Pea
Day 25 - Dukes and Duchesses :: Day 26 - Heathered Nest
Day 27 - Lovely Etc. Day 28 - Stone Gable Blog :: Day 29 - Mod Podge Rocks
Day 30 - Running with a Glue Gun :: Day 31 - All Things Heart and Home

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