I got a box today from my mom, which included the ornaments that she has made me over the past three years as well as a brand new one for this year. They’re all cross-stitched and most of them have beads and glittery blending filiment worked into them.

Here’s the new one. A lovely, super-glittery [although the photo doesn’t show that] snowman face against a background. My mom makes the braid around the ornament edges too.

The other three she sent [click to biggerize]:

They’re a wreath surrounded by celtic knotwork, a lovely victorian santa and a celtic cross.

And this is where they are now, on a garland, pinned to the curtain across the doors to my balcony:

and a close-up of the center of the garland. Bumbles bounce!