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St. Kateri Tekakwitha is a new saint who’s feast day is July 14th. Elizabeth had a hard time coming up with a symbol for this beautiful saint. So I helped with the design.  To create this ornament, we used dark brown felt, off-white felt, a black permanent sharpie marker, thread, small Indian beads, and glue. (We used hot glue, but high quality craft glue will work.)  Two strips of brown felt formed a cross and two feather shapes with black marker detailing were the decoration on the cross. We glued all the parts together. Then, using thread, we made a few beaded dangles and threaded them onto the feathers. To give the feathers more of a feather look we cut slits in the sides. Just don’t cut all the way through!  It’s just a small tribute to such a wonderful saint! St. Kateri, pray for us! Till later, ~JenMarie

St. Peter Julian Eymard’s feast day is Aug. 2 in the new calendar. He began his love of Jesus at a young age and became a priest at the age of 23. He had a devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and tried to spread that love to all those around him. He is the founder of the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament. Read more about him HERE , HERE , and HERE . Because of his love of the Blessed Sacrament, Elizabeth and I made a monstrance for this ornament. We used yellow and white felt, as well as, gold pipe cleaners and a brown sharpie marker. This is a double-sided ornament, so all the felt parts are doubled.  We cut the gold pipe cleaner into short 1 inch strips – they are the rays of the monstrance. We used the yellow felt to make the stand part of the monstrance. We made the host from white felt and we the cross was added with a sharpie brown marker.  We glued the small strips of gold pipe cleaner to the back of one of the yellow felt shapes. Then layered the second yellow shape on top. We glued on the hosts – one on both side. I recommend using hot glue to make this ornament.  You may like to visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament on St. Peter Julian Eymard’s feast day. St. Peter Julian Eymard, pray for us. ~JenMarie

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was born Jewish (Edith Stein).  She converted to Catholicism and was baptized at the age of 31. She later became a Carmelie nun. Only a few years later she was taken to Auschwitzgas by the Nazis and killed in a gas chamber on Aug. 9th 1942. She is celebrated on Aug. 9 (new calendar) – the anniversary of her death and entrance into heaven. Read more HERE and HERE . Because of her Jewish background, Elizabeth and I made a Star of David and added a cross to the center. We made 2 identical yellow triangles and over-lapped them to make the star. We outlined them with a black sharpie marker. Then we used two small brown felt strips to make a cross in the center of the star. St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, pray for us! ~Jen-Marie and Elizabeth (Crafting Buddy)

The feast of St. Martha is July 29th (new and traditional calendars). She was a friend of Jesus and the sister to Mary Magdalene and Lazarus. Because of the story in Luke 10:38-42, Elizabeth and I decided to go with a house keeping theme. So we created a broom.  We used dark brown and yellow felt to create this ornament. We also used a brown permanent marker to add ”bristles” to the broom. This ornament is double-sided so it looks the same on both sides. Although we don’t have it pictured, we did make two broom handles and glued them back to back. This made the ornament more stable.   St. Martha, pray for us! God Bless. ~JenMarie

When the Saracens were attacking Assisi and were marching toward the convent, St. Clare who was very sick at the time, asked for help to carry a vessel containing the Blessed Sacrament to the entrance of the convent. There she prayed and held up the Blessed Sacrament. The Saracens fled in fear. St. Clare of Assisi\’s feast day is Aug 11 in the new calendar and Aug 12 in the traditional calendar.  She is a beautiful saint, Read more HERE and HERE . Since we already made a monstrance , Elizabeth and I decided to make this on a little different and more ”old fashioned” looking. We used light brown felt, yellow felt, white, and off white felt to make this ornament. See the parts in the picture below: We also used a yellow and orange permanent sharpie marker to add color to the rays coming from the host. We added a looped thread and hung it on our Liturgical Tree! St. Clare of Assisi, pray for us! ~Jennifer and Elizabeth (my Crafting Buddy)

Our Lady of Snows feast day is Aug 5 – AKA: St. Mary Major. You can also read about OL of Snows HERE and HERE .   Elizabeth and I decided to make a snowflake out of felt so we could use it every year. You will need white and light blue felt. If you have white felt with glitter now would be a great time to use it! To create this ornament we cut out a circle from the white felt.  We folded it and snipped out several larger and smaller holes as we worked our way around the whole circle. If you try to cut it like you would a paper snowflake it can be difficult because the felt is so thick. So we just cut small areas at a time. It’s not perfectly symmetrical, but it looks cute!  After the snowflake was cut, we added a light blue felt ”M” for Mary! 🙂 After all it is Mary’s snowflake!  It was a cute addition to our Liturgical tree! Our Lady of Snows, pray for us! ~JenMarie and Elizabeth

The feast of Our Lord’s Transfiguration is Aug. 6th. Read more about it HERE . We used yellow and white felt. First we cut out a Jesus shape from white felt. Then we cut a yellow oval which was just bigger than our white Jesus. We cut out long and narrow triangles from the yellow oval to make the rays. We used an orange permanent sharpie marker to add more interest on the yellow ray-oval. Then we glued Jesus on the rays and added a thread loop to hang it on our Liturgical tree.  Have a blessed day! ~Jennifer and crafting buddy, Elizabeth

St. Lawrence is a beloved saint in our house, 1 – because his name is our last name, 2 – we love his since of heroic humor 3 – his beautiful devotion of Our Lord. St. Lawrence was a young deacon who was martyred in the early days of the church. After being tortured, he was placed on a grill and cooked alive. When he could no longer feel most of his body, he said, ”Turn me over I’m done on this side.” He was turned, and then died. Before he died he offered his life for the conversion of Rome. His feast day is Aug 10. (new and traditional calendars) Read more about him HERE , HERE and HERE . For St. Lawrence (AKA: St. Laurence) Elizabeth and I made a grill from pipe cleaners. Elizabeth used two pipe cleaners and cut and twisted them together to make the grill. It was simple wrapping of the wire. Nothing fancy, although we did bend the ends back so they were less pointy. But, I don’t think St. Lawrence’s grill was so soft and fuzzy.  St. Lawrence, pray for us. May we all have your heroic love for Jesus and our fellow man.  God Bless you all. ~JenMarie and my Crafting buddy, Elizabeth

St. Dominic’s feast day is Aug 4th in the traditional calendar and Aug 8th in the new calendar. The ornament that Elizabeth and I made focuses on the Rosary. The spread of the Rosary is attributed to the preaching of St. Dominic. St. Dominic also founded the Dominican Order. For centuries, Dominicans continued to spread devotion to the rosary and teach about  the power of the rosary. Read more HERE  and HERE . The design of this ornament is very simple. Elizabeth used a light blue sharpie marker to make a simple rosary image on a light blue piece of felt. Then she cut it out and glued it onto a darker piece of blue. Then cut around it again to form a two tone look.  We decided to use blue colors in honor of Our Lady, but you can pick a different color if you like. The image below is a close-up of Elizabeth’s Rosary image. Very easy to create! St. Dominic, pray for us! ~JenMarie and Elizabeth, the Crafting Buddy

St. Philomena is a early church saint and is called "The Wonder Worker”. While we really don’t know much about her we do know that she was young and was martyred (after several tries). Most of what we know is learned though the MANY miracles that are attributed to her after her body was found in the ancient Catacombs. Her after-death story is an amazing one and I highly recommend you read about her. I have read the book and it was a wonderful book! My daughter, who took Philomena as her Confirmation name, read and loved it! A few on-line reads are  HERE and HERE  (see the bottom of the page). Her feast day is Aug. 11 in the historical calendar. Elizabeth and I decided to use a few of the symbols that were found on St. Philomena’s tomb. The symbols were an anchor, 3 arrows, a lance, a palm and a lily. We only used the anchor, an arrow, and a lily.  We cut an anchor from gray felt, an arrow from dark brown felt, a heart for the lily from white felt, and a yellow and green flower parts. We used off white for the background circle. The lily was created with the parts shown below. The upside-down heart was folded and glued around the yellow and green strips so they formed a lily (Hot glue works best.). These were all glued onto the off-white circle. We also outlined the anchor with a black sharpie marker. If you have never read about St. Philomena, I do recommend you take a few minutes to read about her. She is an amazing saint! St. Philomena, pray for us! ~JenMarie and Elizabeth

St. Ignatius of Loyola’s feast day is July 31 (in the new and traditional calendars). St. Ignatius was a solder, but while he was recovering from a cannonball wound he began to read about Jesus and the saints. He soon devoted his life to Jesus. He, along with St. Francis Xavier and a few others, founded the Jesuits.  Read more about him HERE and HERE .  Because IHS is often associated with St. Ignatius and the Jesuits, Elizabeth and I decided to make that the main point in our ornament. If you are wondering what IHS means, it’s the name “Jesus” in Greek. Jesus is written ιησους in original Greek and is transliterated as “ihsous” and pronounced iēsous.  This ornament was created with white and yellow felt. Red permanent marker was used to make the IHS and orange permanent marker was used to decorate the yellow rays.  St. Ignatius, pray for us! Have a blessed last day of July! ~JenMarie

Making an ornament for the feast of the Blessed Mother’s Assumption into Heaven (Aug 15) was an interesting task. So far we have not made people, just symbols, so we have taken a bit of a turn on this one. We kind-of made Jesus for the Transfiguration, but this one is more ”real”. Personally, I think it turned out to be very cute! I’ll try to explain what we did: Elizabeth cut out all the little parts (except the hair, which I did) We have a body (a triangle with the top cut off) and two rectangle arms, which are cut from medium blue felt. We also have a head and hands, cut from tan felt. Mary’s veil is light blue felt; one part is a half-oval for behind her head and the other is a ”U” shape for in fount of her hair. Her hair is dark brown and it’s a ”U” shape with a hair-like look. There is also 3 puffy-looking clouds and a yellow halo (not pictured). First, we glued the head to the body. Next, we glued the arms to the back of the body so they look like Mary has them raised to Heaven. We added the hands to the arms – gluing them to the back of the arms. Then we added the behind-the-head part of the veil. Next, we added the hair and then the ”U” shaped veil. Lay the ”U” shaped veil over top the hair and try to cover only the outer edge of her hair. We tucked the ends of the ”U” shaped veil behind Mary’s arms and attached them behind Mary’s dress. Now we glued the clouds together and glued Mary onto the clouds. We also added a yellow halo which had a been edged with an orange permanent marker. To make it even more special we added silver glitter glue to the cloud edges and gold glitter glue to her halo. Oh, Holy Mother, watch over your children here on Earth and keep us in your loving care. Guide us each day and grant us Grace so we may enter into Heaven with you. God bless you all. ~JenMarie and Elizabeth