Today is the first of December and the day we finally get to start our Jesse Tree devotionals. I did get all the ornaments made in time. (Barely.) Yay! I finished them today, and got our branch up. It hasn't stopped raining since we've gotten back from thanksgiving traveling, so I gave up on it stopping long enough for me to cut a branch and take pictures, and had to take the pictures for the last five ornaments in the rain. Our advent wreath is still bare because I haven't felt like collecting wet greenery in the rain. I am really getting tired of all this rain. Anyway, here are the final ornaments, and our Jesse Tree awaiting it's first ornament.
Day 21: Return to the Land
This is suppose to be a wall, and it is just a little piece of wood with rocks glued on to it. Easy and simple to do, but I like the way it looks.
Day 22: The Star
This is made with wire. The same difficult jewelers wire I used for the grapes. This time as I was trying to wrangle with it, it whipped around and stuck into my pinkie. It really hurt, and I will probably never make another wire ornament in my life, but... It did turn out pretty. This is Anna's favorite one.
Day 23: Light of the World
Next year I am going to get a real metal clip-on candle holder, but I was trying to spend very little money on the ornaments this year, so this is my makeshift replacement. It's a wooden candle holder glued on to a clothes pin. Not ideal, but I didn't have to buy anything for it.
Day 24: Angels Proclaiming the Coming of Jesus
Angels are so hard to depict. I don't like to make angels look like women, since that's not very biblical, but I still want to make them look ethereal. That's why I love wool roving angels. If only it held up better to touching.
Day 25: The Birth of Jesus
The final ornament of course, is baby Jesus. The "manger" is crocheted, and the baby is felted.
That's it for the ornaments, and now for the tree it's self. Finding a place to put a tree and 25 ornaments is a real challenge in my little home, where every bit of space is already being utilized. I had to move our toad to Anna's room, and the potted plants to the dining room, where I am hopping the will not die from lack of light until January.
I chose to have a bare branch for the Jesse Tree. I thought a little fir tree right next to our big Christmas tree would look a bit silly. I hung some glass icicles on the branch to pretty it up until it gets its ornaments. The ornaments are in the numbered bags at the base of the branch. The nativity scene is also on the table. Unfortunately the TV dominates the whole scene, but oh well. There's not a lot I can do about that.
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