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Every year we make Christmas Ornaments to remind us of the past years fun we've had.This September we had a birthday party/ reunion for my Grandma Ball. I had big plans of making each family a Christmas ornament but we moved into our home a week earlier. It would have been fun to do.I did get one made for each person in my family.

 Joe cuts the wood for me each year. I try to make them in the fall season. It helps to cut down on the crazy plans of the season.

 I pick a color and paint them all the same color for that year.

 Joe gets all the pictures down to size and we have them all printed on an 8X10 at Costco.

 I modge podge the four pictures per block and place the eye screws in.

  We make unique blocks to what special events happened the past year. This year we sold our home of 10 years and built our new one. Once I'm ready to place the ribbon through the eye screw I will string a key from each home, through the ribbon. They keys will hang as a charm.

I usually use the same ribbon for all the same ornaments but this year I had so much cute ribbon, I used three different designs of ribbon.