Rustic and Modern Twig Stars – learn how to make them!

I woke up this morning with no intention of doing a post. In fact the first thing that woke me up was the realization that I forget to move Elf on the Shelf last night (yes there’s now one in our home and I am not happy about this). Then later on, I was attacked by my 4 year old who ran downstairs with her $1 Advent Calendar to remind me today was the first day she could open up a window on it. That’s when I realized oh damn, it’s December 1st. OT – this is also the space that SEO experts want me to tell you about the blog I am writing so I have to put in the fancy title that includes the words “Twig Stars” in it so that you can actually find this tutorial.

That is if you’re not on Pinterest, where this DIY Twig Stars post is sitting at almost 500K impressions.

Back to earth.

I sat down on my computer to check emails like I usually do in the morning, and suddenly I came up with this idea to do a series of posts I’ll now call “12 Days of Christmas Projects”.

I don’t have anything planned. I don’t have a fancy Graphic Header ready for this. In fact I think I am completely insane for even suggesting this because there is a good chance I won’t make it to the end. My husband is also going to read this and say “You complain you don’t have time to do anything and yet you’re going to make, photograph, edit and write blog posts for the next 2 weeks straight?”

Yes.

And here’s why.

Without getting into too many details, I’ve become quite disenchanted with blogging these days. So I thought what better way to get out of that mind frame than to challenge myself and maybe get back down to the basics of why I started this blog. And that was to create, to write, to share, to inspire others. And often throughout the year, that gets lost in translation.

Uncomplicated Christmas Crafts – let’s start with Twig Stars

The goal with these posts is to make uncomplicated projects. Things you can do at home with your kids, maybe using stuff from your recycling bin.

I’ve been really listening to my friends these days, and what they often say is that they find certain DIY projects and crafts intimidating, because they feel like they take too much time or are too hard. The whole, “Ain’t nobody got time for that.”

I don’t want that. There’s a time and a place for those projects (and I do do those as well) but not for this. I made a list of ideas for Christmas crafts, and we’ll see how it goes.

Let’s start off with a simple one that is a classic family favorite throughout the year. Which are twig stars. I made them using both twigs that I had leftover from my twig wreath, and I also have a ton of wooden dowels that I picked up at the Dollar Tree. That way I have a combination of rustic and modern stars.

Using my glue gun I basically glued the twigs and dowels together in the following steps.

All the beautiful ribbon that you see is from May Arts.

I used their Bakers Twine and the Black and Cream Striped Ribbon.

Those are now on our main floor Christmas Tree. We have 4, no wait, 5 Christmas trees. The fifth is on our front porch. Or rather is going on the front porch as I have done nothing with it yet.

Is this the moment I regret pressing Publish?

Challenge Accepted.