Poncetastic thread

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Is there a poncetastic thread this year? I am itching to ponce!

The nativity cone looks lovely woollybackswife I remember doing some quilty (I made a Queen Elizabeth the first) in year 3 and loving it, I won the class prize, but have not done any since!!

I'm tempted to try this but wouldn't there be a lot of cost outlay with all the fabric scraps needed?!

Today is moving day so poncing will be postponed by a couple of weeks at least. First thing on being in new house is proper planning of Christmas tree placement though. Swiftly followed by babyproofing. (priorities!)

However all is not lost as a huge IKEA trip is on the cards for Saturday. What can I get? I doubt the Christmas stuff will be in yet, but last year I got the woodland cookie cutters and did loads with them, and frames which DS "decorated" for gifts.

I have lots of wadding as my MIL is a champion quilter and trying to encourage me. I think I actually could make one of these cones! I have lots of scraps from my fabric advent Calender from last year so just need the cones.

The gold outlining was like gutta or something liquid?

ava how do you use real candles on your tree?

Anyone who wants to do a wreath ala Zorion - Hobbycraft have polystyrene 3d wreaths in for £3.

I'm preparing to get my craft on, having purchased a number of essential bits in Hobbycraft this morning (which no doubt will stay in the bag for the next 3mths....) I did also take the kids fruit picking yesterday and have enough to make jam and chutney non stop this week.

Sorry I can´t work my new German keyboard, but you can buy little candle holders that balance, and they do, and the wee little candles that go in them only burn for two hours, so it felt really safe and my sceptical dh thought I was bonkers but he likes them too. No faffy wires. I remember the year that dd1 and I tried to wrap electrics round our tree trunk. It looked nice, but we couldn´t get them off it afterwards. Whole thing in the bin.

As long as your tree is quite new and green it just smells piney, and you don't need the fire station on standby.

Sorry I have been lurking for a bit!

I do love a Christmas ponce currently cross stitching dd2 stocking, I quilted dd1 stocking last year and feel that may have been a better crafting option.

What I came on to say, please don't put candles on your Christmas tree, one of dh's colleauges burnt down her house doing that. Eeek. No pouncing is worth that...

For electric lights on trees, if you do them up and down (divide the tree into quarters vertically and sort of zigzag upwards across the quarter and then back down again across the next quarter etc) instead of round and round they are much easier to remove afterwards

What poncing is everyone doing this weekend? I've not done anything yet except review what Xmas presents I have stored already, and there's not many in there, and review finances to see how enthusiastically into the poncing I can go right now.

I'm going conker and autumn leaf gathering on Saturday, in a beautiful park grounds. We are making an autumn display, but i need ideas for what else to do.

i am a wannabe poncer!! Going to get my girls making salt dough christmas decorations this year and pine cone collecting to spray paint and hang on th tree

Does anyone have a fail safe salt dough recipe to share? I have some really nice snowflake cookie cutters and so I would like to make some snow flakes to go on the tree. I tried something off Pinterest last year with lots of bicarb in it - very white (good) but just too runny. I also tried modelling clay but too sticky and had very bad edges/corners, which I started trying to smooth with a nail file but just too fiddly. Trusted salt dough recipes much appreciated.

I have a dehydrator (oh yes, I live life on the edge) and am going to use it to do orange slices, and also maybe dry out my pine cones a bit. Then I may spray the pine cones gold or silver and put them in glass vases.

Rascar that is hardcore poncing preparation!

One year dd's nursery sent home salt dough at Xmas in a cellophane bag with pretty ribbons but no information: DD couldn't explain what it was, I just thought was sweet cookie dough, so we rolled and cut it out, baked, decorated and tried to eat it! Yuck yuck yuck.

I used the version on Mum of Boys' website. I did the handprint Christmas craft last year and never got round to painting them. It was quite sticky but with a bit of kneading I could use it.

www.mumofboys.co.uk/easy-salt-dough-tree-decorations/

Cautious poncer here...... I have the enthusiasm but not the time so only commit to things I know I can manage.

What I would really like to do this year is to make a Gruffalo tree decoration, like in Stick Man. My DS loves the Gruffalo and it would be fab to be able to put one of these in his stocking. Has anybody seen a pattern or instructions for making one? I'm reasonably crafty and think I could manage one, but want to follow a pattern.

Food network has Cooking Christmas showing sat with an apple Danish (but it tastes weird...think that might be a preggo fault) and a notepad, making rough plans on menus and edible presents. Getting hungrier though

gingerbread syrup for coffee
I'm making this asap.

Poncery commences this weekend in the swinger household- yay! First weekend in October always heralds the arrival of the online shopping order that has epic amounts of dried fruit so the cake baking can commence and I cannot wait!

My two Justin Welby tree decorations arrived this morning. They are fantastic. One for me, one for best mate's pre-Christmas birthday.

Current plan is to make the cake this weekend. It might not happen... but I hope it does.

We are never at home for Christmas so I have to ponce in the run up to it.

I've bought new Christmas fabric - loads- so that I can make patchwork quilted stocking for the two kids. Plus me and DH.

I've already made fabric chains for the tree, did that last year. I also bake a lot - gingerbread snowmen and chocolate cakes and anything else I am obsessed with.

But NOTHING poncetastic. I need to up my game!

Sitting here with my cath kidston Christmas organiser, trying to decide what poncery to start with this weekend.
Saw a decoration idea where you get a polystyrene ball, sequins and pins. Stick a pin in the hole of the sequin to cover the entire ball. Would use gold and red sequins (one colour per ball), can't decide if it would be the right amount of Christmas sparkle, or sheer tackiness.

My mum made loads of tree decorations like that years ago theonlypink, except that they were covered in a bit of fabric first, so the sequins and pins held the fabric in place iyswim. They are very pretty and have lasted

Oooh, thanks hap! Think I might try a few, think they might look nice if they are well scattered, they would reflect the lights nicely.

Have just joined the WI! I WILL be a professional poncer

You must share what you learn, nevernic!

I made something similar theonlypink but with punched out mini flowers. Wish I'd thought to cover with fabric first! It looks pretty good though, but took a lot of time.

And last year I crocheted snowflake garlands. Do I quality for the poncy thread? Even though, to quote another thread, my tree is decorated Christmas-vomit style