Thursday, January 2, 2014

Twas the Night Well after Christmas

My son's class was studying Christmas in Austria (actually they were studying Christmas in many different countries; he was assigned to Austria) and, true to form, my eight-year-old lad has such confidence in his mum that he asked me the night before to make him a traditional christkind doll tree ornament to bring in.

On the bottom you'll see what I made, in a 4-hour flurry (had to dream up a pattern, which added some time, I think).  She has her traditional wings, tree, and a new holly headdress.

Above her, wearing the same Norwegian ribbon, is her Russian nesting-doll-ornament cousin.

3 comments:

GSL said...

Very lovely ornament! I'll keep my giggles of an 8yo boy tasking his Gender Studies Prof mum to a 4 hour project to myself.

materfamilias said...

So clever, so creative and talented you are. . . and yes, what GSL says above, chuckling here as well . . .

Jen Lawrence said...

Don't you love those last minute projects? Well done!