This from That and a Grandson Project

Back in April I found a free tutorial that took book page circles and made a 3-D creation.  I used pages from a discarded dictionary and with some circle punches punched out 16 circles of each size.

After folding them in half with a hard crease and then folding them again with a soft crease at the center point, I was able to layer them and make 16 segments.  Then the 16 segments were glued together in the round.  And then I had a paper urchin which sat on my table for months until I found a couple of boxes of wooden drapery rings that someone had given me which gave me an idea.  

I removed the eye screws from the wooden rings and HWNSNBP filled the holes with wood putty and sanded them for me.  Then I painted them white along with two 5/8" wooden beads per each ring.  I punched out a lot more of those circles and whilst watching/listening to Hallmark Christmas movies at night, folded all those suckers and glued them together.  

I punched a circle out of index paper and made sure there was a hole in the center before I glued the urchins to it - one on either side.  I found some suede leather cording that I had bought for another forgotten project and picked the light green to use on this project.  I strung the cording through the urchins and looped the ends through the beads gluing them in place.

I made 5 of them to hang from the light fixture in the dining room.

Another thing that we found during our clean out was a 2 1/2 foot unfinished wooden Christmas tree with a set of lights.  We thought it might be a good project to do with our 4-yr-old grandson.  I  prepainted the tree green and he decorated it dipping corks in paint to make ornaments.  Then we strung the lights through it.  

They grow up much too fast.