\nMy sister-in-laws and I started a tradition last year for Christmas – we have an ornament exchange. I decided to try to make mine and planned to create small felt rosettes to cover existing ball ornaments. Seemed simple enough.<\/p>\n

And it was. But multiply one simple rosette x 30 x three ornaments and you find yourself burning your fingers on the hot glue gun, watching Home Alone and cussing rosettes the night before Christmas. In summary – simple can also mean time consuming.<\/p>\n

But it was worth it! I got three great ornaments to add to my tree. One was a plain ball ornament wrapped in beautiful yarn and embellished with ribbon and a sweet tag. My other sister-in-law added monograms to store-bought ornaments – they were beautiful!
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I have been on the hunt for a new plan for this year’s exchange – thank goodness for Pinterest, right?!? If you’re looking for DIY ornament ideas, check out my board here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My sister-in-laws and I started a tradition last year for Christmas – we have an ornament exchange. I decided to try to make mine and planned to create small felt rosettes to cover existing ball ornaments. Seemed simple enough. And it was. But multiply one simple rosette x 30 x three ornaments and you find Read more about DIY Ornaments.<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[61,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kommunicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kommunicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kommunicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kommunicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kommunicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kommunicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/kommunicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kommunicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kommunicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kommunicated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}