2013 Exchange Ornaments

Been toying with different color combinations for the 2013 exchange ornaments.  Need to do 15 total for the three exchanges I am a member of.  Six will go to the Yahoo! Group Christmas_All_Year.  These have to be the same and are shipped to a central processor who then re-boxes the ornaments and ships them to the other participants so you will get a box of six different Christmas ornaments.  Eight will go to the two groups I signed up on the Yahoo Group Yearly Christmas Ornament Exchange.  Each group will have a total of five people (me and 4 others) and since I will be in both groups that makes me and eight others (hopefully no overlapping will occur, but if it does I can make versions in metallic red, green and blue along with glittered red, green, blue, pale gold and bright pink).  The fifteenth ornament is the one I always make for myself.

I’ve made several of the onion-shaped glittered red/blue/green ornaments in both 4- and 6- spoke versions,

but I think the one I will do for the exchanges will be the 6-spoke onion-shaped pale gold with pearl teardrop dangles.  One of the main reasons is the pale gold comes 12 to a package instead of four each of three colors.  Have four packages (so far) of the pale gold, so I’ll only be using a little more than one package.  The first package I opened had one ornament which had some glitter missing and was showing the base ornament underneath.

There are also marquise shaped ornaments in both glitter and metallic of the red, blue and green as well as glitter gold.  I have been thinking about making those up and gifting them as a set to some of the people on my “A-list” for Christmas. 























The “A-list” people received either “A”n ornament or “A” set of ornaments.  To people I gave the 6-spoke chandelier to last year, I’m seriously thinking about doing 6-spoke suspended chandeliers this year.

I also have a “Baby’s First Christmas” ornament to do in light blue.  Also have a couple sets of upholstered ornaments in Crimson Tide (Alabama) and Tar Heels (UNC-Chapel Hill) with maybe some individual Wolfpack (NC State University) thrown in for good measure.  Of course this mean I’ll need to check the number and shapes of papier mache forms along with seeing how much of the collegiate licensed material I still have.