wow it does seem a bit early, but Christingle gatherings would be all about making these decorations, pomanders I think they are called, basically enough cloves stuck in an orange to preserve it through the season. Can it really be true, well we will hang it up and call it an experiment.  We thought those pumpkins would last forever and then one morning a light touch and the whole smiling face just implodes into mush, to our delight actually.  It smells good at the moment, pipe cleaners were easy to wrap round for G , but some of the cloves were pronounced sharp, the ones that had their little bobble off and look like a spiky star, they were all for me to put in, also a fine paintbrush can make you a hole ready so your thumb doesn't have to take so much punishment. G wants to hang it above a doorway, I imagine we may forget about it and then one morning an unsuspecting person will get it on the top of their head. Have faith in the cloves, must discover what they really are......