ornament exchange

This holiday season, I decided to take part in an ornament exchange hosted by One Artsy Mama. I was lucky enough to be paired up with Kelly from Your Charmed Life. When partnered up, we were given a few bits of information about one another that might help us pick out/make the perfect ornament.
Here is what Kelly said: "I love COLOR and lots of it! More Bling the better. I love: trees/banches/birds/owls/peacocks. I'd love something; colorful, glittery/sparkly, funky."
There were a few other details about Kelly on the list, but these were the ones that spoke to me the most. I brainstormed for over a week before coming up with this idea:

I love how they turned out. They are 1) colorful 2) glittery/sparkly...they have lots of bling! 3) and they are tree related. I thought I covered a lot of what Kelly likes. Here is how I made them. I started with a trip to Michael's. I had an idea of what I wanted to get and then I stumbled into the "holiday" aisle and found these glittered fruits! The pears...turned upside down & disassembled a bit...looked like acorns! THEY WERE PERFECT...and half price!

I bought a handful of them (as well as some other goodies - pine cones & greenery) and headed home. I planned on using the pinecone tops as the acorn top, but they ended up being really hard to cut (Adam even used some power tools). 

Once we got one cut, I didn't like how it looked on top of my acorn (I'll just have to find another project to use them on). PLAN B: crocheted acorn tops. I quickly crocheted a couple tops, looped some twine & greenery through the yarn and hot glued everything to the sparkly pears.

Now...instead of seeing pears...I see glittery acorns! I wrapped up all 3 of them and sent them off to Kelly.

Kelly sent me this gorgeous ornament. I absolutely LOVE the tree and I love that is says Barefoot on it. Kelly makes so many pretty hand stamped jewelry items. Make sure you check out her Etsy shop!

I'm glad I got to participate in this fun exchange and I'm really glad I got to connect with Kelly. I can't wait to put up our tree so I can hang my new ornament. [p.s. this post may be linked to any number of these blogs]