Miniature ornaments

Since I didn't have any ornaments that would be small and light enough to decorate my miniature Christmas tree I decided to try and make some myself.

Here I'll teach you how you can make some too.

So first thought you will have when thinking about Christmas ornaments is ball ornaments. Since you don't have any balloons at home and are too lazy to go and buy them, you find the next best thing - cut a finger off a glove, blow a little air in it and (since you also don't have any rubber bands) tie a knot.

Now that you have a weird little inflated finger ball you put paper glue (and as a bonus your fingers also end up covered in glue) on some yarn or thread you have and spin it around the kind-of-a-ball.

Being that you don't have time to just wait around (actually you do, you're just impatient) for the glue to dry, you use a blowdryer to help you.

The last thing to do is to pop the glove-ball and to carefully separate it from your almost (because apparently you are even too impatient to wait for it to dry with a blowdryer) dried yarn.

Ta-daa! Here's your tiny ball ornament! (oh yeah and you also should make some kind of a handle)

And now when you start making another ball ornament you discover that it's really difficult o tie a knot on the glove-finger and after many attempts and cut off fingers you decide to try and make some flat ornaments instead.

After thinking hard about it you realize you should take styrofoam and poke some pins in it so you can trace different figures. But of course as it turns out you don't have any styrofoam so you just get some cardboard instead. Also you find out that pins are too thin for cardboard and you replace them with toothpicks.

Before you start you remember how sticky your fingers were from putting the glue on the yarn so you try a clever trick you learned - put the yarn through the bottom of your glue bottle before you use it.

And only then you remember that cardboard is also paper so you should probably put something underneath your ornaments (luckily you find some tape after 15 minutes of going through all the drawers in your house).

Aaand you're done! (well after you have removed the toothpicks and the ornaments have dried and you have made some kind of handles for them)

Good job! They almost look good!