– Henry Ward Beecher
Copyright Beth Parker Art 2012
I was in an ornament exchange for the second year, over at Blu Penny. I think there are 60 of us, divided into groups of 4. You mail handmade ornaments to the other 3 people in your group and they each send you one. My group was “The Fruitcakes”. Our $10 entry fee benefited the Make a Wish Foundation.
To make these, I took a plastic ornament and covered the whole thing with little fabric squares, using Mod Podge. I added 2 more coats of Mod Podge. Then the leaves on the top were created by cutting apart a little plastic poinsetta and painting the leaves with spray paint. I attached a bunch of little charms and bells to the ends and then hot glued the leaves onto the ornament. Whaaa-Laaa!
About Henry Ward Beecher
The liberal American minister
Henry Ward Beecher was a great orator, an advocate of women’s suffrage,
and a staunch abolitionist. He raised funds before the Civil War to buy
rifles to fight against slavery; these guns became known as “Beecher’s
Bibles.” He was born in 1813 in Connecticut; among his eight siblings
was Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. His
immense popularity waned only slightly after he was accused of adultery;
the trial ended in a hung jury, and he was ultimately acquitted. He
died in 1887.
