Simple Tree Ornaments

My orange slices are dried.  I used three different ribbons to make loops for hanging:  light olive satin with picot edging, burgundy satin with picot edging, and white "metallic" (sort of opalescent) with straight edging.  My apple slices are dried, too.  I used three other different ribbons:  ivory satin with picot edging, red satin with picot edging, and apple green with picot edging.  Here they are ready to hang:

I also made cinnamon applesauce ornaments.  I used a full pouch of cheap cinnamon (about 1 3/8 cup), about 1 1/8 cup of cheap unsweetened applesauce, and about 2 tablespoons of regular white glue.  I mixed the glue and applesauce first, then added the cinnamon.  Once it was all well-mixed, I decided to add some ground ginger and allspice for extra fragrance.  It would have been much easier if I had added the extra spices to the cinnamon BEFORE mixing it all together with the glue/applesauce.  I managed, but please note that I highly recommend wearing latex or rubber gloves.  I needed to knead the "dough" and the glue makes it particularly sticky.  Without gloves, your hands will smell lovely, but the brown difficult-to-clean gunk under your fingernails will be most unattractive.  I dried them in the oven at about 175 degrees for a few hours.

 

To glam them up a bit, I followed Emily's lead from Remodeling This Life.  I didn't have any Mod Podge, but noticed some Multi Podge at the dollar store and bought it to use.  It didn't dry clear!  I was disappointed, but not ambitious enough to start again from scratch - so they'll suffice.  I used sisal twine and jute twine for hanging loops.  Here they are:

 

 

I finished decorating the tree last night at about 1:30am.  The batteries in the camera have died, though, so no pictures of the tree yet.  Sigh...