The Ornaments

Last Christmas my best friend and I decided we would bake cookies as gifts. We planned a 'Cookie Day' which included baking and eating lots of cookies and drinking lots of wine. Our 'cookie DAY' quickly turned into a cookie WEEK as neither of us realized how much time making, baking and wrapping (and eating!) a gazillion dozen cookies took! We did have a LOT of fun doing it and the cookies were a HUGE hit!
Here is a picture of our results:

I think we ended up with 8 or so of these platters? 

So, this year will be our second annual cookie baking WEEK and I got to thinking, this is a nice gift, but once it is gone, it's gone. Around the same time I started noticing DIY ornament tutorials on Pinterest and various blogs I follow. THEN my Mom informed me that she wanted to 'order' a few platters of cookies to give as gifts. Soooo... I put all this information together and came up with the idea of sewing ornaments to attach to the cookie platters. I figure that the ornaments will not only make part of the gift keep-able but if I make them for my best friend's platters along with my own, it will cover the extra work we will endure, (read: fun we will have) making extra platters for my Mom, along with our own.



Here are the ornaments I have made so far, the links to where I got the ideas and/or tutorials are in the caption of each image:

I think my favorites are the coco and the gingerbread house. <3

The Candy Cane, Bell & Star
Ornaments come from HERE. 

The Candy Cane, Bell & Star
Ornaments come from HERE. 

The half eaten Gingerbread Guys are from HERE. 

The Peppermint comes from HERE. 

The Snowman & Mitten come from HERE. 

This one was a lot of stitch work  and quite time consuming for me,
so I gave it to my best friend as a gift as she has and loves horses.
The original is HERE. 

The Hot Cocoa and Marshmallows come from HERE. 

This Reindeer came from HERE.

The Ballet Slippers came from HERE. 

The Gingerbread House came from HERE. 

These guys were adapted from HERE. 

Needless to say, I've been quite busy, and enjoying every minute of it!  I hope the ornaments are a hit this year and i'm looking forward to COOKIE WEEK!!!