Fun Collars!

Happy December 21st!! Today Heffner was reading a book about Santa Claus to Bess. To read a Christmas book, you need to be wearing special Christmas glasses.;o)

Last night, I was feeling a little crafty. Not a lot, just a little. So while watching more Christmas movies, I spent some time working on some Christmas "party" collars for the dogs. First I took some skinny elastic string stuff:
Then I took a couple of the MANY random Christmas garlands that we have that I don't really know what else to do with other than to make the dogs wear them, and I cut them up into small segments.

Next I cut the elastic string stuff into lengths that will fit each dog's neck. I tied off the ends and covered them in hot glue to sort of seal them closed (I couldn't think of anything else that would work and elastic doesn't melt with a flame the way nylon does).

Then I tied the individual garland segments onto the collar of elastic. The end product was:



I then tried my hand at making a "party" collar with actual ribbon and some beaded string using the same manner. I actually kind of like how it turned out!