Angels

 

Angel ornaments from my mom's hankies

     My mom died last year in November.  This December would have been her 90th birthday so I decided to have a party for her.  It was a nice way to get to talk about her and our memories of growing up.

The final result

     As a keepsake for everyone to take home, I made angel ornaments from her box of hankies. She had dozens of them.  I looked on Pinterest for some directions and started making them.

Original angel I made

    The first couple I made, I used stuffing to make the heads and tried to starch the hankie so it would look like wings.  I only did a couple as I wasn't too happy with the results.  I then went to Hobby Lobby and found some some balls to form the heads.  I used two different sizes depending on the size of the hankie.  I looked for crochet or lace shapes that I could use for wings but didn't see anything I liked.  Then on Amazon I found some fabric wings. 

'Heads' from Hobby Lobby

Wings from Amazon

     I was going to glue the wings in place, but then I remembered the double faced tapes I had bought for doing window treatments and thought that would be much less messy and faster.

Tape I used

     After I got these items all in place, making the angel ornaments didn't take long.  I believe that this was a nice way to remember my mom.

     It was so nice to get together with family and just talk about my mom.

      Rest in peace mom