Crafty shenanigans abound at the place where I work, so the craft alarm is always ringing—or on the fritz. I work with artists, so even lunch breaks turn into feasts of glitter and glue and all kinds of fun surprises—and here’s one thing I’ve learned: even in the hustle and bustle of the season, it’s still possible to squeeze in a five or ten-minute craft, such as ornament making.
A few weeks ago, I spent a delightful lunch-hour making ornaments with co-workers, and the result is the configuration you see on this blog page. I did not buy any of the decorating items, but there were tons of interesting things to glue to clear ornament shapes of all kinds. I chose a square shape—for no reason—and a huge tube of glue that I had no idea how to open. (One of my co-workers showed me how it’s customary to use scissors to snip off the top and squeeze the tube. This was no ordinary Elmer’s. I wondered if it was too late to ask for glue sticks and maybe a stapler.)
Once I got the glue open, I used something that looked like a miniature plastic scoop and picked up an array of dazzling shapes to glue to my ornament. The shapes included typical seasonal themes such as holly leaves and snowflakes and glittering spheres, but they also included rare gems such as spiders, flattened bear-stars, and crescent-shaped thing-a-ma-jigs.
The resulting ornament is a wonderland of good cheer, fright, and confusion. Effectively, I think I’ve managed to create the experience of a punchbowl of eggnog, under disco lights, while Die Hard plays softly in the background. It’s “Silent Night” meets the spider who sat down next to Little Miss Muffet—and things just spiral from there—until a sparkling, flattened star-bear opens its arms to catch the fallout and drift through transparent flakes of snow until the punchbowl is empty.
Cheers!
Your Turn: Do you have a group of friends or family members with whom you like to cook or do crafts? What’s your favorite thing you’ve ever made?
Fixin' Leaks and Leeks 
I absolutely love your description in the last paragraph. You’re so weird. It’s wonderful! 😛
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Thank you so much! You’re weird, too–in a good way–and I love it! Cheers!
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Weirdos of the World Unite! 😉 🙂 😛
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Miss Muffet’s spider, flattened bear-star, disco…classic symptoms of mixing eggnog and glue fumes. Seriously, sounds like a fun place to work.
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Yes–it was probably the glue! It is a fun place to work–I love it!
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I love to cook, especially Italian. I haven’t been involved in a cooking group for a while now but hope to again once I’m not flat-out working all the time! Die Hard is my favourite Christmas movie. 😁
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Ooh! Italian food is my favorite to cook–so fun!
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I live alone so no crafty friends here. I’m glad you watch Die Hard at Christmas. 😆
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It’s a fun movie to watch during the Christmas season!
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I really enjoyed making paper chain and popcorn-cranberry garlands for the Christmas tree when I was a kid.
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Oh, yes! I forgot about paper chains–love those!
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🙂
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Crafts at work? Fun! In my former workplace, we used to do paint night, which was great—and of course you mentioned my favourite Christmas movie Die Hard❤️
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Oh, paint night sounds like fun!
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I am not for the group cooking or crafting things. I like making things with my daughter, but that’s about it
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It’s fun to cook and create with family 🙂
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