Update

 When last we "spoke", I was on my way to clean up my mess and "sit" on the Halloween frame for a bit. Somehow, I got off onto finishing my Christmas ornaments before cleaning up since I had now bought the rest of the supplies and already had everything spread all over the table. 

Ever since my first grand daughter was born 29 years ago, I have given each of my grand children an ornament as one of their Christmas gifts. My idea was that when they finally moved out of their parents' house and had a tree of their own, they would have a small set of ornaments to begin their collection and a bit of their history on said tree. I always found something depicting a special event in their lives that year. As they were younger and involved with all sorts of things and always had "firsts", that was easy. But, as they have aged, finding a "first" is getting more and more difficult so, at least for the four oldest who all have their own residences now, I have been giving them one of the ornaments that I make for everyone else each year but I still like to make theirs a bit more personal so I always write something on the back.

Since I put patterned paper on the back of this years ornaments, I didn't want to just write on them so I picked up some tags at HL. They were just plain white so I rummaged through my stamps and found a Christmas one that, with just a bit of alteration, would be perfect. I stamped them with black...

...then colored them in with a markers and wrote my usual sentiment.

I was going to tie them onto the ornament but opted to just glue them on the back. As soon as I find a really thin ribbon or cord, I think I will add a tiny bow to cover that hole.

Update: I found this red, white and green butcher twine in my stash and thought it was just what these needed.

And then I added the year to the front of each ornament and a poinsettia. I went ahead and finished off the two "practice" ornaments as well. I can always find a place somewhere on the tree for them.

I went back to the Halloween frame and decided to just add a Jenga block to the back of Pumpkin Man to raise him off of the frame and call it a day. I still don't think I'm done with him but I knew that no matter what else I did, I wanted him raised so I got that done before putting him aside. I will say that the more I look at it, the more it looks like it is dark brown and not black and copper. I actually like it but it may depend on where I use it. If it needs to read more black, I guess I will just dry brush over it with black paint and then use the gold Rub&Buff to contrast. We shall see.

Stay safe and stay tuned.