A Little Dash Of Christmas

Hello Lovelies!!

Never too early to put your tree is it???...not when you have a 2 year old!

and who is this little guy waiting for??

We decided the theme under our tree this year is 'Fairy Tea Party'... but we have no food!!! and as of yet..no guests!



My little 'Pohutukawa Fairy' looks ever so hungry and lonely, and he still has 40 something sleeps till the big day!  I went on the net and did some shopping, and I know you cant buy friends with money!! but for this little darling yes you can!  I went here to 'Woodlands Enchanted' and brought him four new friends to celebrate with.  They are the most beautiful fairies made of NZ sheeps wool, no made in china labels to be seen!

So while guests are being shipped in the mail, we can get on with collecting little lovely nature treats for a fairy Xmas Lunch!

I felt a bit naughty putting the tree up already but reasoned that the adverts have started on TV and soon the radio will be following so we had forgiven ourselves.....and then I went over to visit Miss V and saw she was in the spirit too!

She had made some Xmas trees from cotton balls (which you can see here) and so we got to work and made one for Nana.  Nana has the snowy ornaments at Christmas time, in our house we rage against the stereotypical so no snow inspired creatures to be seen....

making this tree was so fun and easy for little hands, I did the hot glue and she popped on the cotton balls...

This got me thinking about what kind of tree I should make then, if not a snowy one, and realised I should be making  Pohutukawa trees, Its our National Xmas Tree, not that we decorate it but just that it flowers at Xmas and you go to the beach to be with them.  They arent brought into the home, its illegal to cut them!!

So to any New Zealander this sight speaks Xmas and summer and bbqs and swimming and drinking and relaxing.. ahhhhhh Christmas...so lets get to work then...

Green Felt and thread ahoy!

I traced the top of the tree and cut out matching backs and fronts...



I want my trees to have real trunks form the actual Pohutukawa tree so off to the beach to collect twigs from our favorite tree..which you may remember from this tale...

Here are the blosssoms ready to burst!  ewwww...wait...wait........

Back home skippidy skip and I snap the twigs to look like trunks and glue to one side of the tree foliage..

I blanket stitch the sides and bottom and then stuff thru the top...

For added magic every tree has a leaf slipped inside it too, so that these are real trees!, like little parcels of the beach to hang at home...

Stitch all the way around and sew a string loop in the top so it can hang and there is the tree...but wait..now it needs summery red flowers...

Glitter bug alert, i dotted PVA glue over the top and covered with glitter and flicked the excess off...

and you are left with the most delicious little tree all ready to hang once it dries...I love the twig trunk, it brings the tree to life...

So we made a whole bunch and they are all ready to be packaged up and sent to our families so we can all be connected by a very special creation....



Now about that fairy food......

Hows your Christmas lists going my lovelies

tick tock tick tock its getting close

eeeekkkkk!!

I absolutely love presents, dont you??

xxx

Sheree