Tacky Homemades, Secret Santa version

That's how my mother always refers to gifts she makes at Christmastime - and they are always anything BUT tacky.  I got an idea to make ornaments for a co-worker who's name I may or may nor have drawn in our Secret Santa gift exchange. 

I started out with sparkly unbreakable ornaments from Michael's, and some shimmery white fabric paint.  I found the cutest Ho Ho Ho ribbon and was so excited!  Only to discover at home that someone had cut about half of it off the roll...so I had to settle on polka dots ribbon.

Still pretty cute - stripes and dots together work!

I used a measuring cup to hold the ornament steady and wrote each family member's name in white,

Then I added a dot of red to the lettering.  They dried pretty quickly.

And when they did, I added the ribbon to the tops to gussy them up a bit.  She will still be able to hook a tree hanger in there to hang them on their tree.  No worries about them breaking - hooray!

I packaged them in one of those red rectangular zip loc containers and bundled that with a box of Starbucks cocoa, candy canes, and gingersnaps. 

Merry Christmas, Mom of Three Cute Kids!

Gina