I’ve made only a few different wooden Christmas ornaments over the years. The first were made about two years ago, and I wrote about them in this post.  They turned out well and are currently hanging in the living room. The kids get a kick out of seeing them each year.

The second ornaments were for an article in last year’s Canadian Home Woodworking and Home Improvement Dec/Jan issue, and were featured on our cover. You can read about them here. You might notice that neither of the two ornaments I made show any wood grain or colour. One is white while the others are a sparkly colour that was sprayed on. I think they’re both quite festive and look great hanging in our home.

One of our best-selling issues of all time was our Dec/Jan 2021 issue, which featured a few scroll-sawn wooden ornaments. You can read it here. It sold much better than the issue that featured my colourful ornaments. One reason for that might be because the scroll-sawn ornaments showed wood grain and colour, not to mention the fact that they were nicely designed and executed by one of our writers, Heather Craig. I guess woodworkers like seeing the beautiful grain and colour of wood!

Christmas snuck up on me this year (surprise, surprise) so I didn’t get a chance to make any ornaments. We also didn’t include any in this year’s Dec/Jan issue. Having said that, I’d like to share some ornaments with our social media followers over the next few days. Send me images of wooden ornaments you’ve built over the years and we’ll share them via Facebook and Instagram so followers can get some inspiration for this holiday season. Sure, it’s a bit on the late side, but what would Christmas be without some last-minute rushing around and late nights spent in the workshop?

To get you started, here are a few other ornaments we’ve run in in past issues.

Bob Hamilton: Turn a Christmas Ornament

Allan Cusworth: Inside-Outside Ornament

Allan Cusworth: Christmas Ornament

J.P. Rapattoni: Christmas Tree Ornament