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Yesterday I finished my Christmas shopping. (Actually I need to buy one more thing, for BossBoss, but I can't do that till a few days before Christmas so that it stays fresh.)

As ursula_bear reminded me, last year in the Cafe we made Christmas Decorations out of words. She was in search of the PDF of the Christmas Decorations, which I appear to have lost, so I thought I'd make another one and reupload it.

You can find the PDF of all the Word Christmas Ornaments here:
Sendspace | Sendspace Mirror
Megaupload | Megaupload Mirror

Or you can find individual full-size high-res images at my gallery here.

There are nine pages of individual and grouped-word ornaments, some on various themes; two pages of single-letters that you can string together as garlands, and three "crown" tree-toppers. Reposting my Crafty Tips from last year:

For all pages, I'd recommend either printing them on card stock or gluing regular printouts to card stock (if you want the ornaments to hang around -- HA, see what I did there? -- for a while, I would use acid-free spray adhesive) before cutting them out. When I make paper ornaments I often glue the backs to construction paper, which adds some colour. Little kids think this is MAGIC. How is the paper two colours at once?

For the garlands, you can punch holes in each letter and tie them together with string, but that gets time-consuming. Easier is to glue the letters along a strip of ribbon or onto the links of a paper chain.

For the tree-toppers, I'd recommend gluing a bit of wire between the topper and its backing, then twisting the wire into a coil that you can settle over the top of the tree. Or, only glue the very edges of the topper and backing together, like a seam, leaving the bottom open. Then fit the pocket that creates over the tree. With the Doctor Who topper in particular you could probably also make the bottom word into a circle, glue it together, and settle it on the tree.

But, you know. It's your art! Go to town, do what you want, have fun.

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GUESS WHAT ARRIVED IN CHICAGO THIS AFTERNOON?

SNOW, YOU BEAUTIFUL MOFOS.

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sky_was_green clued me in to, and asked if I'd publicise, a poll going on over at pubhistwho, which is eventually going to count as 30% of someone's final grade. It's suffering a bit from lack of participation, and various bets have been made the upshot of which is that we'd like to get 50 more responses before the poll closes on Saturday.

It's a poll specific to the Who fandom but it's very anecdotally aimed -- all the questions are open-ended and it looks like it may garner some very interesting results. Anonymous participation is welcomed. Go ye and check it out!

Also:

( So there's this whole big thing where Seeley is a stupid name. )