C14 The Reflector December 9, 2015Holiday Shopping Corner

These beautifully intricate origami ornaments are crafted by clark county native Aimee berkompas, 20, who opened her online etsy shop, elizaroseGifts, with her 15-year-old sister, Ka-trina, a knitter.

“I started elizaroseGifts in October in order to share my ornaments with people around the U.S. and perhaps eventually around the world,” berkompas says. “my sister Katrina joined in the endeavor with her knitted accessories, hend the name eliza-rose — my middle name is eliz-abeth and her’s is rose.”

each ornament is a detailed work of art that incorporate vari-ous color combinations and a tiny bit of sparkle.

“These Kusudama ornaments are a unique form of Japanese origami,” berkompas says. “each ornament is made of 60 individu-al, little squares of paper, which I fold one at a time into the petals. Then I glue the petals together until 12 flowers are made. Once these are glued together, they be-come a round ball. Then I deco-rate them with glitter glue and tiny rhinestones.”

berkompas says the most im-portant part of her work is the attention to detail she gives each ornament, but her favorite part is “watching them transform as I’m adding the glitter into beautiful sparkly ornaments!”

berkompas has a wide selec-tion of ornaments on her etsy site, but says she also loves doing custom orders and can make larg-er or smaller ornaments and work with any color combinations peo-ple might want. Getting a custom origami ornament would take be-tween two and four days to com-plete, berkompas says.

“I would love to help people find that perfect ornament for a gift or decoration,” she says. “It’s always so wonderful to know that other people are enjoying things that I’ve had fun creating.”

To buy one of berkompas’ origami ornaments or to inquire about custom orders, visit her shop at www.etsy.com/shop/elizaroseGifts.

Rusted metal

ornaments by Elegant

Garden Design

Origami ornamentsby Eliza Rose Gifts

Jay and madeleine crowdus of battle Ground have been design-ing and making these rustic metal ornaments since 2011.

“Jay and madeleine draw ev-erything and the ornaments are steel plasma cut and rusted by hand here at the warehouse,” says Cara Atwell, office manager for the local elegant Garden Design company. “custom orders are available.”

The company’s popular “rusty bird” ornaments, made of rusted steel, are available in 3-inch and 5-inch sizes, and can be hung on a tree with a hook, or even dis-played year-round in the window or outside in the garden.

The ornaments are available

in local shops, in-cluding A Vintage Gath-ering at 407 W. main St., in battle Ground and Shorty’s Garden and Home shop at 10006 mill Plain blvd., in Vancou-ver. To see the cur-rent offering of orna-ments, or to message about a custom de-sign, visit the com-pany’s etsy shop at www.etsy.com/shop/elegantGardenDesign, email info@rustybirds.com, or call (360) 573-1055.

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