Every year, I (well, my husband and I!) bake cookies and put them in a nice Christmas themed tin canister to give to our next door neighbours. This year, I wanted to do something slightly different and while browsing online I fell in love with a monogrammed Christmas tree ornament on Pottery Barn's website:
Simple yet personal and would be a perfect addition to our yummy cookies. Unfortunately when I went to purchase it, it was no longer available. My fault for doing so too later.
Anyway, instead today I went to Michael's hoping I can find ideas to make my own ornament and I found all I needed. So here is my plan:
I bought this porcelain ornament from Michael's:
I also bought a fancier ribbon to replace the existing one:
And finally I bought some Martha Stewart adhesive stencil and some acrylic paint, Santa red colour:
I'm hoping to paint all in red the first letter of my neighbours' last name on the ornament with one of the designs from the stencil. I should be able to do it tonight so stay tuned for the final result. I hope it will look great.
But that is not all, I'm still going to bake the cookies but instead of a canister, I will use Mrs. P's idea and place the cookies in a cellophane bag, twist the bag closed with the nice ribbon I got and hang the ornament from the bag. Maybe it will look something like this:
Wish me luck and stay tuned for how it turns out.
