Beaded Wine Glass Charms

I found these wine glass charms that I made a couple years ago. It's the first (and only) ones that I made, I was trying out working with the wire for the first time.

I used ring sized round wire, strung on different colour beads and a charm, and bent the ends so that they can hook up.

These are made with seed beads and crackled glass beads, but if you used fancy beads you could make some really pretty wine glass charms! It would be nice to make matching serviette rings out of bigger sized round wire too.  Hmmmm....now there's an idea for a cute gift!

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Christmas Lunch - Table Decor Part 2

In part 1 I just posted the goodies that I'd made for the table layout...so here's all the goodies ON the table. I covered the table with white table cloth, and laid over some pretty organza type Christmas fabric overlays that my mum-in-law made for me a couple of years back:

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(oops - excuse the skew knife!)

 

I think the serviette rings looked great, I love 'em! :)
I put a chocolate in each glass:

And the one end of the table looked a little empty, so I just made up something random to put there - I didn't really know what I wanted to do!

I filled a glass jar with green and gold spray painted pine cones, added gold ribbon around the neck of the bottle, took some bark from a tree in our yard and spray painted in gold and laid it around the jar.  Then I tool little glass ornaments (they were once filled with gel candles), and I spray painted teeny tiny pine cones and put them inside, and just arranged them around the jar.

And that was it! :)

Christmas Lunch - Table Decor Part 1

We're having a Christmas lunch at our house tomorrow (the first Christmas lunch at this house), and I wanted to make it all pretty and stuff, so here are some of the table decor that I've made (I'll post the finished decorated table a little later!).
The colour scheme is red, green and gold.  So I got out some wine glasses and decorated them with a green ribbon and a little bell:

 

As for the next 2 items, I implemented some more crafty recycling!
I made little place settings, which I think turned out really cute! :D

I just spray painted (gold) some mini pine cones, printed out our names on plain printer paper (it's a small gathering, hehe), spray painted (green) some more printer paper and cut that out with fancy scissors and stuck our names on, and then just propped them up using the pine cones.

For serviette rings, I cut up some toilet paper rolls, spray painted them green, and added gold glitter to the edges with the help of my handy glue pen.  I also decorated them with some twigs from my garden which I spray painted gold, tied together with some gold ribbon, and hot glued to the TP roll:

I love the way they turned out too!  :)

Soon I'll post this all laid out on the table where they're supposed to be.

UPDATE: See Part 2 - finished table decor.

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