Your Muppet Christmas Decor

cjd874

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I have five homemade Muppet ornaments. They all have medium-sized styrofoam balls for the heads & colored yarn for the skin.
Kermit has light green yarn, foam eyes (on which I drew his trademark eye design), a felt mouth, and a foam collar. :smile:
Fozzie Bear has golden yellow yarn, plastic googly eyes that you find in craft stores, a strip of red felt for his mouth, a pink pom-pom nose, two golden yellow pom-poms for ears, brown felt for the eyebrows, and a felt hat that my mom sewed for him. :embarrassed:
Animal has orange yarn, red feathers for hair, black feathers for eyebrows, googly eyes, an orange pom-pom nose, and a black felt mouth with foam teeth. :halo:
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew has bright yellow yarn, a felt nose and mouth, foam ears, and pipe cleaners for glasses. :confused:
Beaker is in his own category. He is made from a toilet paper tube with pink yarn, googly eyes, an orange pom-pom for the nose, a red felt mouth, and orange feathers for hair. :eek:
 

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Wow, those homemade ornaments sound really cool, cjd874. I love all the creativity that was put into them. And if you ever think about it, we'd love to see some pics of those.

I bought the window clings at Walgreens last year. One sheet has Kermit, Fozzie, Piggy, a "Merry Christmas" logo, and several snowflakes. I think I paid $1.50 for it.... not sure if they have them again this year but it might not hurt to look! :smile:
Thanks for the reply. (Though once again, stuff is always where I can't access it :sigh:) But those do sound really cool...I'll have to look around online for them.
 

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Haven't been on here in a loooooooong time. I have lots in my collection which is driving my fiance crazy. :smile: Some people just don't understand.

A lot of my stuff has been gifts. :smile:

I also have the Muppet advent calendar - a gift from my Aunt.
The Kermit stocking holder from like 1981?
I also have the singing Kermit and the red monster.
And when I got my singing Kermit last year I also picked up the Kermit with the scarf on.
A tiny Christmas book featuring the muppets.
My sweedish chef action figure dressed as santa. I also put a pair of penguins out with him.
A wooden Kermit countdown.

A little pin of Kermits head with a Santa hat. I have had that since I was a baby. My parents used to pin it on my little apron/bib.

Ornaments...soooo many. I have the disney story book set. I have the ornaments that were available at Carlton Cards/American greetings. I have the ones hallmark released just before that like Kermit on the bike or caroling on a tree branch and i think miss piggy and kermit skating. And I have hallmark beeker, fozzie, statler and waldorf and the sweedish chef. Somehow I missed Animal. Not sure what happened there... I have one old hallmark satin ball from the 80s and i have a kermit tying himself to a present but my dog (puppy at the time) might have chewed his foot off last year. :frown: Working on replacing it after Christmas as they seem to cost more right now. And I have the hallmark fraggle rock one from 1985 or 86? but that one is at my parents house. I will also be having a muppet tree. In his exaspiration by the sheer amount of ornaments I have collected (a couple hundred to his 6 ornaments total) my fiance accidently suggested it (not seriously - although i took it that way) so in the next couple years I will be hunting down a medium sized tree and making a tree skirt and topper and possibly some homemade ornaments.
 

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Oh, yes! I just remembered thanks to PhiNuBlue that I have another piece I forgot to post about, a Kermit Stocking Hanger from 1980 (which I'm assuming might be the one that PhiNuBlue also has.)
 

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I WISH I had all the cool Muppets Christmas decorations that used to be made. All I've got is a little Kermit Nutcracker, Santa Chef from Palisades, and ONE Kermit ornament (where he's bringing the gang their gifts). Well, and I've got my Build-A-Bear Kermit & Piggy dressed-up in Christmas outfits. :wink: I've thought about getting window paint and doing a Christmas window out front, but that would take time that I do not have... but it sure would be cool! :smile:
 

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Wow, those homemade ornaments sound really cool, cjd874. I love all the creativity that was put into them. And if you ever think about it, we'd love to see some pics of those.
Hi again! Although the holidays have passed, I finally got around to taking pictures of my homemade ornaments! 2 group shots & portraits of Kermit, Animal, Fozzie, Bunsen & Beaker.
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