Charlese Phillips of Charlese Annette Creates Longwood Community Tree Ornaments

Charlese Phillips is a fiber and mixed-media artist who seems to work magic with anything that passes through her hands. Her business is Charlese Annette Creates.

This fall she had her artwork in a number of artist exhibitions (group and solo) and yet she was able to fit in making ornaments and handspun garland for the Bellefonte Arts Community Tree at Longwood Gardens.

Charlese collaborated with fellow Bellefonte artist Marsha of Marsha Neal Studio, on the color palette of for the garland for the Bellefonte Longwood Community Tree based on the A Longwood Christmas theme of Gems and Jewel Tones.

Marsha dyed the sheep curls through Sarafina Fiber Art, where she works part time, and brought the locks to Charlese to spin into fiber magic as you can see in her video:

Charlese utilized self-taught techniques and her electric spinner to create 32 yards of handspun, jewel toned yarn garland for the Bellefonte Tree.

Wrapped in embroidery thread, Angelina fiber sparkles, and some dyed feathers, this garland helps to connect the work of all of the talented artists who contributed to this tree.

After taking a class with Marsha Neal Studio at Bellefonte Arts on learning how to needle felt, Charlese applied her love of fiber and mixed media arts together to create these felted sea urchin jellyfish ornaments.

Adorned with beads, sequins and sari silk strands, these ornaments are full of life. Each ornament is unique with its own characteristics and charm.

You can find out more information about Charlese and her work through her website. She posts about her work in progress on social media which gives great insight into her creative process. And you can see a selection of her artwork and handspun yarn in the Bellefonte Arts Shop.

You can see her beautiful ornaments and garland adorning the Bellefonte Arts Community Tree at Longwood Gardens, during the annual A Longwood Christmas (Nov. 21, 2025 through Jan. 11, 2026).

Longwood Gardens is located at 1001 Longwood Road, Kennett Square, PA 19348.

Bellefonte Arts is located at 803 C Brandywine Blvd, Wilmington, DE 19809.