Show me your homemade Christmas decorations

Snow_Igloo

I started making crochet snowflakes to put in people's Christmas cards last night 

Coveredinbees!!!!

I made all my outside light decorations myself out of old wood and stapled on aldi LED lights.

nannygladys

Loads of ideas and beautiful decorations

Katiehound

Ah ha, new way of attaching photos so hope this works.
Crochet angels & crochet stars.
Stars sprayed with starch and then pinned on board until dry. Later stars made with free yarn from pulled down jumper in white with blue 'bits'
crochet ring red wool over metal ring (cafe style pole) which wasremoved from 'old' curtains. (Curtains made into doggy duvet covers...)
Some were decorated with leaves cut from old artificial leaves and alder'cones'

Hhazlehurst

I made paper chains out of last year's wrapping paper. It's been a while since I made any so they look kinda blocky. I think they're fun and festive so I'm going to be saving more wrapping paper this year to do "two colour" ones next year!

Sapindus

The skeleton of my Christmas wreath is a metal coat hanger - though they're getting a bit hard to find these days!  I foraged freshly cut willow to build up a good solid base on top of the coat hanger, and reuse this each year.  All the rest (apart from the ribbon and thin green garden wire, also mostly reused each year) is picked up on walks or from my garden. 

Sapindus

Wrapping paper bunting is a very time-limited craft.  It's cheating to use wrapping paper that hasn't been wrapped round a present, and it's not long before I get fed up with the piles of saved paper and recycle them for good!  If you use garden twine and avoid glitter and foiled paper, the whole thing is theoretically compostable.
Also in this photo you can see the paper chains which I made from the cheap coloured paper that comes in A4 pads from Hobbycraft.  It's what we used to call "sugar paper" when I was at school, but it is just the right deep muted shades that remind me of paper chains when I was a kid.  An evening with glue stick and scissors and I had yards of the stuff which is carefully put away in boxes each year.  But it will go in the compost when it finally gives up the ghost of Christmasses past.

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Found this display in a uni library.

minimacka

Sapindus said:

The skeleton of my Christmas wreath is a metal coat hanger - though they're getting a bit hard to find these days!  I foraged freshly cut willow to build up a good solid base on top of the coat hanger, and reuse this each year.  All the rest (apart from the ribbon and thin green garden wire, also mostly reused each year) is picked up on walks or from my garden. 

Love this wreath, but especially love your door knocker :-)