December 12 - Mexican Tin Ornaments

December 12 – Guadalupe and tin
This is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe and was the day we always made tin ornaments

for the Christmas tree, using the sort of fanciful bright painted designs of Mexican tin work.

In the early days this was easy, because you could use TV dinner trays and Pot pie plates, but

now they’re all made of cardboard or a tougher metal that you can’t incise designs into, but

you can still get good effects with use craft foil or heavy duty aluminum foil, cut out the designs, incise with a ball point pen.

pen and then color with marking pens and then, of course, tacos for dinner.