Every year I have amazing plans to decorate for Christmas. The December issues of Better Homes and Gardens and Real Simple add fuel to the fire. Dancing sugar plums are replaced with table centerpieces, garlands, and homemade wreaths in my head. A stocking for my daughter, maybe a new one for my husband (the one I made for our first Christmas really isn’t that great). Oh and I could make an ornament for my daughter every year, then when she’s eighteen she can have her set of ornaments. Mid-November I am all ideas, mid-December I am scrambling. So this year, once again, I am left with a headless angel.
I didn’t plan on a headless angel. The tree needed a topper and those at the store are typically gaudy or frothy or too “country”. I figured I could make one. I had already bought felt to make ornaments for my sister who put “unique” ornaments on her Christmas list (what’s more unique than homemade?). I found an angel template by Martha Stewart (going to the craft queen herself) and after some finagling had two felt angels cut. I glued and sewed the pieces together, carefully cutting out bits of the red. Then...I stuck it on the tree, headless.
I did look for something to make a head with, but nothing I had was quite right. So, telling myself I was just testing it to see if it looked right, I stuck it on the tree. And that’s where it stayed. I glanced at it while completing the trio of owls for my sister.
And again while making felt pom-pom balls. (Thanks to cake. for the tutorial.)
My husband and I exchanged gifts last night, under a headless angel. This morning we packed up the car to spend Christmas in Pennsylvania. Leaving behind the angel and a number of incomplete decorations still in my work basket. Oh, and no stocking for my daughter. Maybe next year I'll start in July.
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