A Christmas card for all my friends on the Board
12-12-2009, 10:15 AM
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love the card, and thanks, I hope you have a happy and blessed holiday too. the squirrles are adorable, my mom always takes out the meat (LOL, nut meat not squirrle meat!) and replaces it with a $5 and glues a ribbon on it to hang on the tree for my grandkids.
12-12-2009, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by kathy
love the card, and thanks, I hope you have a happy and blessed holiday too. the squirrles are adorable, my mom always takes out the meat (LOL, nut meat not squirrle meat!) and replaces it with a $5 and glues a ribbon on it to hang on the tree for my grandkids.
When I was working I used to make joke nuts"Fun Nuts". I took the meat out of the shells and replaced the meat with a joke and glued the shells back together with a hanging ribbon and painted a funny face on the nut shells. I put them on our unit's Christmas tree. Then when we had our unit Christmas party everyone got to crack open the "Fun nut" and we enjoyed the jokes. It was a lot of fun. Ahh memories !!!!!!
12-12-2009, 08:09 PM
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Merry Christmas, Barb!:D You are so thoughtful.
Oh, I have to make a squirrel ornament, they are soooo cute!
Squirrelly has been my nickname since I was 18. Guess who named me and made it stick? :roll:
(all the males on both sides still call me that to this day!)
Oh, I have to make a squirrel ornament, they are soooo cute!
Squirrelly has been my nickname since I was 18. Guess who named me and made it stick? :roll:
(all the males on both sides still call me that to this day!)
12-12-2009, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by quiltncrazy
Merry Christmas, Barb!:D You are so thoughtful.
Oh, I have to make a squirrel ornament, they are soooo cute!
Squirrelly has been my nickname since I was 18. Guess who named me and made it stick? :roll:
(all the males on both sides still call me that to this day!)
Oh, I have to make a squirrel ornament, they are soooo cute!
Squirrelly has been my nickname since I was 18. Guess who named me and made it stick? :roll:
(all the males on both sides still call me that to this day!)
I love to make things out of free stuff. I have been making all kinds of different ornaments or dust collectors from the walnuts since we used to have a small walnut orchard and our son now farms over 100 acres of walnuts. I take a flat head screw driver and carefully pry open the nut shells, remove the nutmeats, then put the shells into a clorox/water bath to kill any worms or insects. Dry the shells and then glue the shells back togather. I use empty egg cartons to keep the nut shells in pairs as they dry. Then before I glue the shells to each other I use my dremel belt sander to flatten where they will be joined together ( like putting a head onto a body or to flatten the base so the character will sit better or so I can add felt feet, etc.) They really get to be addictive when you start making the nuts into little characters.
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