Tiny Hands Christmas Ornaments

Just wanted to pop in real quick and show you  these Christmas hand ornaments I made for the girls last year. I was inspired because I love hand and footprints in their memory books...they are so teeny! So I thought it would be so cute to  make them with felt and hang them on the tree.

But dang... I forgot to date them.  

So I think I need to pull out a sharpie and just put 2009 on the back.  

I traced their hands on a piece of paper as a template and then traced them on two different colored craft felt and cut them out.

After sewing their names with beads, I sewed the 2 hands together.

Apparently I was distracted or deeming myself arty when I did this on a diagonal.

And Ella's is straight but all the way at the bottom.  

Huh.

Hope you can improve upon this if you decide to make them.

If you are not a sewer this would be cute to do on pretty paper and laminate them or seal them with contact paper (above) with their names and year. 

Let the kiddies have artistic license to make it more personalized and all their own.

You could even use the wrapping paper used that year to date the project and make it a special memory ornament.

I have a few more Christmas posts coming but expect a post soon to chat a bit about a weird thing that happened on my blog.  I need all of your advice as fellow bloggers.  Stay tuned.  I hope to write it in the next few days.