If you don’t know by now, I’m totally obsessed with vintage Christmas ornaments.
My favorites are the ones with the indented reflectors in the middle. I just love how unique each one is and how they sparkle and reflect colors when hanging on a lit up tree. It’s magical! You might remember that Ornament Tree Skirt I made a couple of years ago, but this year I wanted to bring that theme to life as a throw pillow.
What you’ll need:
-Fabric. (The amount depends on the size of pillow you want to make. I used fleece, but you can use any non-stretchy fabric you want. I got two 18″ pillows out of 2 yards of 45″ wide fleece.)
–Metal Christmas light reflector cups
-1” Silver buttons
-Snowfake shaped crafting buttons
–Metallic Braid Trim
-Ribbons, rickrack, and felt/fabric to decorate
-Embroidery thread and long needle
-Fabric glue
-Sewing Machine and thread (or you can glue the edges for a no-sew attempt)
What you do:
First draw a circle. The best way to do this is to use a tape measure or ruler and the compass method. Remember the way we learned in math class? HA I bet you thought you’d never need that. Then sketch out a little top piece (about 5″ wide), like an ornament would have. Then cut it out!
Sew the edges together leaving an opening at the top. Turn it right side out and iron. Stuff with polyfill through the top and then close the opening using a slipstitch. (You can try gluing all of these edges for a no-sew attempt, but the results won’t be as clean.)
In order to make the indented middle you need to tuft. Use a silver button and a light reflector to do this. Put the silver button in the middle of the reflector and use embroidery thread and a long needle to pull the button and reflector through the middle of the pillow. Pull it tight to make the indent, and use a triple knot to make it stay. Trim the excess thread. You can also use another button on the other side to keep it all in place if the triple knot isn’t enough. 
Now you can have fun decorating it! Glue the snowflake buttons around the indent for extra sparkle. Use the metallic trim around the top to make it look like the ornament cap. Use rickrack, ribbons, and fabric scraps to create lines and shapes.
And voila! A cute little ornament throw pillow!
(photo: Etsy)
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We have an orange front door and I couldn’t let that go to waste! I used black construction paper cutouts and taped them to the door to create a Jack o’ lantern face. 
I added a few pumpkins and a few tombstones from the dollar store.
Inside I used spiders, pumpkins, paper bat cutouts, and a few gilded skulls to spook up the place. There are always plenty of spirits around the bar…get it? Spirits HAAA.
I put pumpkins in the fireplace with string lights, those will be sticking around all season long. 
I love it as our dining table centerpiece.
Then I used colorful mini marshmallows and candies to decorate them!
For snow cones I used tissue paper and party hats!
Can’t forget the sprinkles! I filled 
To top it all off I used the rest of my tissue paper and a party hat to make a giant ice cream cone. 
In the dining room I used large bottle brush trees from Target to decorate my shelves and then stuck in two more baby trees for good measure.
I got a little more festive on the adjacent bar, of course. I used Shiny Brite ornaments and epsom salts to dress up a cheapy $5 plain wreath and garland.
The living room is definitely the most festive place in the apartment! I spy a 
I also decorated the fireplace with my collection of bottle brush trees and
And then there’s 
I got this hat for my dog but she hates it so Frank the flamingo got a festive little makeover.
Here’s our favorite recipe given to us by my aunt. Thanks, Titi Pily!
Sew the pieces together at the sides, leaving one side open.
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