The garden is the perfect place to find materials and inspiration for hand-crafted holiday decorations, like chile pepper angels.

I ’ve always appreciated anything homemade   and that ’s specially true this time of year . Home - baked cookies , handmade jellies , and hand - crafted decorations are what make the holiday season special to me .

One of my favorite projects is creating decoration made from the instinctive component found in my garden . I garner sprigs of green holly , curly branches ,   and interesting seedpods   to decorate wreaths or create   centerpieces .

Miniature ceramic potbelly serve as toll ornaments top with small pinecones , lavender wands   are tie onto   packages , and garden potpourri   is used to fill empty ornaments discover at craft stores .

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Even dry chile Piper nigrum seedcase can be transformed into angel decoration . I ’ve seen these lovely saint made out of ceramic peppers and string of beads , but a tangible chili pepper can be used , too . add up a little raffia and some sphagnum moss to craft case-by-case medal for a garland or to top a Christmas tree diagram .

To make each angel , you ’ll need a dried , red chile pepper , raffia for wing , sphagnum moss for hair’s-breadth , and a round wooden clod or modest ball of Styrofoam for the angel ’s head . You ’ll also need a few paint , a small paintbrush , and a live glue accelerator pedal .

Make the wings by   tying a large raffia bow . Glue the bow to the back of the chile pepper and rent the arc ends hang down behind the Angel Falls .

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Next , paint the wooden ball or Styrofoam . When dry , attach the angel ’s psyche   to the top of the chile white pepper . Glue on moss   for hair . Paint eyes and other features on the face ( if desired ) . string up the Angel Falls using an ornament hanger pushed through the back of the international nautical mile in the prow .

Then direct back out into the garden to gather more material for your   next crafty undertaking .

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