Crafty Christmas

Last night my friend David had a holiday party which required that each guest brought an ornament. Not seeing any suitable ornaments in the stores around my apartment, I decided to make something after I finished my tax final.

What started off as making cutout of UCLA's basketball coach of Ben Howland (David is a huge UCLA athletics fan) turned out to be a collage of UCLA.

At first my collage was taped together because I did not have a gluestick. I thought it looked too homemade so I ended up photocopying the collage onto some leftover resume paper. For the other side of the ornament, I found a great picture of John Wooden, UCLA's most legendary basketball coach. I liked the black and white vintage look on ivory paper.

Though not an elaborate project, I was happy that I was able to whip something up in a few hours with a printer, tape, resume paper, and CD for structural support. It reminded me of the crafts I would make with stuff around the house while in elementary school, which probably made this even more fun.

I wish I had taken a picture of the ornament that Alex made out of a Disney Princess yo-yo and tops. Requiring everyone to bring an ornament definitely brings out everyone's inner-Martha Stewart.

And of course a cute picture from the festivities.