I was a member of two different groups who held handmade ornament exchange this year. The first group, I needed to make a total of eight (8) ornaments, four in each group and I asked for two groups. Most (maybe missing one) have received their ornament so I feel better about posting a photo of the ornament at this time. I had a mother in one group and her daughter in the other group, who both live together, so I made the second ornament so they wouldn't have two ornaments the same on the tree.
Many years ago, I had gone to the After Christmas sales looking at the various ornaments which were greatly discounted. I happened upon several containers of miniature glass onion globe ornaments, three colors with eight ornaments per color in each container. I picked up all they had (seven containers: 3 of white, red & green ornaments and 4 of bronze, gold & copper ornaments). I had forgotten about them and discovered them again last year. Still have many of them available for future ornaments, and will most likely use them for many personal gifts for this year. The white is actually close to an antique pearly white which matched the pearl drops and pearl beads very close in color. The smaller Delica beads I use on the arcs/arms were a close match as well. If I decide to do these as my major design I can easily change the color the the Delica beads to match friend's individual likes such as one friend likes orange so I will do an orange and pearl and a friend's daughters like pink and purple while his will be deep red and his wife's will be classical pearl white.
The other exchange I was a member of this year, I had to make seven (7) identical ornaments, then send them to the coordinator who will redistribute them to the participants. I like this concept as only the people who send in ornaments will receive ornaments in return and they come all at the same time. For this exchange I created a beaded icicle with pearls, rhinestone rondells and bi-cones. I have seen a similar ornament on Pinterest which I liked. I changed a few things, deleting an additional embellishment of 'caging' the top pearl which additional pearls and bi-cones and adding additional spacer beads separating the individual elements.
