Pinecone elves

Two pinecone elf ornaments for Tucker and Darcy. Haha, Robyn, yes, I copied you! We really love the pinecone elf ornament you made for u...

Last year, inspired by Martha Steward, I made these little pinecone elves, one for each member of our family. I made these based on Martha’s tutorial, with a few tweaks...

This past Sunday was the last of the holiday workshops and the kids all created pinecone elves. Years ago I became fascinated by these little elves after coming across them in a thrift store. Best I can figure, they were produced in West Germany and Italy, but Japan was quick to jump on the bandwagon with their popularity from around the 1930's through 1950's. If you know more about them, I'd love to hear about it as I cannot find much history on these little pinecone people. These were the…

I have always been smitten on these little vintage Christmas ornaments that look like pinecone elves. Most are marked “made in Japan”, they often have little hats or beards and I have seen them as part of a... keep reading >>

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I made these three little Pine Cone Girls in between working on other projects and I think I have found a new obsession. Right now it's all I want to do but, yeah, like that's going to happen. Maybe after Christmas. They are made from pine cones we collected in the fall and each girl is about 2½" tall. Miss Willa Miss Blush Miss Jovie