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Christmas Ornament Swap 2011 (Posting Work in Progress ..to add more yet)

   JuJu Waggoner


Many thanks to all participants of the Christmas ornament swaps I  for 2011. Everyone did a wonderful job and our trees are aglow in beauty and in spirit.

 Dawn Emmert

Christine Rohloff

Donna Anderson

Debbie Vance

Sharon Mowery

Jean St Aubin

Judy Rawnsley

Judy Waggoner

Deb Leffler

Pammi Counts

Cindy Boyenga

Judy Reynolds

Wax Scented Santas

Kathy Kurian

Amy Jones Utah ( Wendy's Blog Swap  )

Angie Stokes, California (Wendy's blog swap)

garden decor ornament..vintage dishes!

I recently saw a garden stake that I absolutely loved! It was a=made from old pottery, glass vases, berry dishes and such..each garden stake this lady was selling for around 20-30 dollars, depending on the cost she had invested into the project..the ones using colored vases were the prettiest as they reflected the sun  through the glass the best.  what is nice about these is that they slide onto a metal pipe for winter storage in a safe place.  I made a crude drawing of one that was put together using clear vase( walmart type) on the pipe, a pressed glass plate, a wider colored vase with a bclear glass berry dish over that ( upside down) and then a glass door knob. she used a pottery water resistant type of glue to them that adheres outside well. I want to make one of these..any suggestions for the glue???

From the bottom up...you will need a 4 ft pipe, either steel or copper

Next comes a plate..use clear glass, colored or white pottery or china plate glued to the bottom of the upside down bud vase. the bud vase is one I have seen at walmarts.it is a clear glass and the opening slides over the pipe

examples of plates used.

She had a porcelon angel sitting on the grandmas fan as a topper  instead of

the glass door knob over the berry dish

Then came the colore glass vase..some were clear glass and others were pottery. these were upside down and glued onto the plates.

 Berry dishes were also used,  and turned upside down onto the colored or plain vases.

Incidently , she also made cake plates by turning the  above stemmed berry dishes upside down and

 gluing glass plates to them  

then came either an angel, glass know or glass bead or some unusualy topper...for the year ornament. I gave you the ideas, but you would need to see what you had on hand to creat  one of these...they are very pretty!

here is the diagram i drew out to show the construction part. 

Hope you enjoyed this tute!

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J&P Coats TC history

J & P Coats - Trade Cards - 
A little bit of history

In the early 1800’s James Coats opened a cotton thread mill. The cotton thread produced by the mill had initially been created by Patrick Clark who developed a method of twisting cotton yarns together to produce an exceptionally strong thread. This thread was able to replace the more traditional material of silk in everything from needle sewing to looms.



In 1830 James and Peter Coats took over their fathers’ mills and by 1840 they were exporting substantial quantities to America. By the late 1860’s the Coats had a factory in the USA. It was not until the mid 1880’s that a new 6 cord thread was developed which was suitable for sewing machine use.



Throughout this time J & P Clark advertised using Trade Cards. There are many different sizes, shapes and styles that J & P Coats used on these cards. A few of these cards contained illustrations by Kate Greenaway.



J.P.Coats used 17 different known Kate Greenaway images in this set. There is also an 18th card but it was not known with the J.P.Coats advert. The cards exist in 7 different color variations with no one design having more that three color variations.