Well, I haven't ever done it, but I am Ukranian.  And I have a friend who does them.  They are lovely.  I'd love to see the photo's of what you have.

I work for Odyssey Hospice in Las Vegas and would love to share ideas for items that our volunteers can create for our patients.

I thought I'd share a few things I have done over the years for Christmas ornament gifts.   I used the individual pine cone petals, I guess they would be called and added pipe cleaner antlers and little bead and tiny pompom noses then added a little paint or fantasy snow on the antlers to look like snow and little wiggle eyes.   Santas using the tip of the petal as the top of the hat and the wide part I put cotton on for a beard and painted eyes and nose.   Wooden eggs painted like penguins and make little hats with tiny bells on the tips out of felt.  Really cute!   Lightbulb snowmen, penguins, santas etc using felt as hats and drilled a hole through the metal part of the bulb to string a hanger through.  On the others I folded the end of the hats over so the string went through where it was bent over.

Used that plastic canvas and cut into shapes like bells, xmas trees etc and cut those tri beads and glued to the tips of the tree for lights and lace around the bells.  Also glues the pine cone things to the center of dif shapes. 

Using string wrapped around and around a balloon and coated with watered down glue.  Let it dry then pop the balloon.  You have a string ball that you can put 2 sizes together and embellish to be snowmen or santas or you can cut a hole in the side and make minature sceneries inside them. 

Old CDs you can use a dremel type tool to cut just the bottom inch or so off then glue together to create a shelf.  Put fake snow on the "shelf" then ad little deer, trees or trains to it.  Use pine type pipe cleaners around the edges with tiny xmas lights or beads to appear like lights.  Use some kind of gel type glue as hot glue only sticks til it cools off and then all the stuff falls off! 

The dremel works best as it kind of melts the plastic some to seal the edges so that the metalic coating stays on good.     Not sure how to add pics here yet.  I have some pics that are rather poor as it was the begining of the digital camera age but if I figure out the picture part I'll post some so you can get an idea what I'm blabbering on about. :)
  That's if I can find the pics!!!
  Deb  

Hubby and I just started wood turing on a wood lathe. We love it! We are making round lidded boxes out of exotic woods. We will be selling our work on our new web site as we get things made. www.kewlboxes.com I also own a home business selling knitted golf club covers. I have been doing this for almost 3 years with GREAT success. www.kewltubes.com You can turn a CRAFT into a Business! We did!

I have posted some pix on my profile of my latest goose pysanky (Ukrainian Easter eggs). Have a look.