On Making Angels 1960's Style

A couple of months ago I was digging through the garage for something and found a handful of  craft magazines mixed in with some old kid's magazines. The oldest of the bunch was "Fun with Craft Sticks" from 1966.

It has a few different Christmas crafts in it, the one that appealed to me though, were the popsicle stick angels that appear on the cover (as opposed to the one ladened with decoupage daisies and marbles). As usual, I made adjustments and used balsa wood for the head rather than a bead and felt for the hair instead of plastic wood. Hard to see in the picture, I bent gold paper clips to make the halos.

Jokingly, I've been referring to them as The Supremes!

Ultimately, I think I'd like to get them on strips of green and pink ribbon to hang in rows on the wall for an extra 60's touch! 

Moving on, I also pulled out my 1964 Christmas Magic by Margaret Perry, this time to make angels. The pattern in the book, as with last year's donkey, is actually to make an aluminum candle holder, but I used heavier weight metallic paper and decided to hang them from the ceiling. I also copied and sized down the pattern to make slightly smaller ones. Sorry for the not so great picture, the heater makes them move!

 And thus you have the beginning of my Christmas crafting. Stay tuned for the next round!♥