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large_minitropical.jpgDo you dread those long road trips? You know that your child will be in the back seat asking “Are we there yet?” every five minutes.  Well, be prepared!  Take crafting with you!

Crayola has many wonderful no mess items.  Mini Twisted Tropicals is the perfect size for travel.  This mini tablet is great for travel! Create mini designs with swirls of tropical colors that magically appear!  It includes: 20-Page Mini Color Explosion White Tablet, 3 Color Explosion Broad Line Markers, 1 Outline Marker, and 1 Stencil Sheet.

To keep everything neat and tidy check out this neat product, it’s a kid’s car organizer  from Avon. Compact and organized, it stores everything from crayons and markers to water bottles and playing pieces. The top doubles as a play area, and it also includes an insulated compartment to keep food and drinks cool. A quick-snap attachment to a seatbelt keeps it in place. A must have for sure!
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Christmas Ornament Cross Stitch Patterns

The other day I shared some cross stitch patterns with ornaments on them, so this time around I wanted to share cross stitch patterns that you can use as ornaments. It would be fun to do a whole tree in your craft room with cross stitch ornaments, or just add a few to your tree or give them as gifts.

These little quilt inspired cross stitch patterns from Flamingo Toes look like ornaments and fit in 3-inch hoops, which are perfect for hanging on the tree or using to decorate a gift. I love the pastel colors on these but you can use more traditional Christmas colors if you like.

This cute Christmas tree from Lagodargetoshop uses a single color and fits in a 4-inch hoop, but you could make it smaller if you wanted by trimming the last ornaments and gifts from the sides, or just stitch the tree without any other embellishments. Either way it’s a cute addition to your holiday tree.

Stitched Modern has a super cute collection of retro Christmas ornament cross stitch patterns from designer Gera. This is a printed pattern that will be shipped to you. Each pattern is about 40 by 56 stitches, or 2.9 by 4 inches/7.4 by 10 cm on 14 count fabric. To work the whole set you’ll need 20 colors of floss.

These snowflake ornaments from Our Little Handmade Home are each about 2.5 inches/6.4 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric, and they use a single color of floss. They are pretty in red but you could also do white on a blue or black background, or whatever suits your other Christmas tree decorations!

From the description it sounds like this set of vintage style cross stitch characters is presented as one large chart, but the photo from Sampler Antique Stitch shows each of them stitched up as their own little ornament, so it gets included here. You’ll find Santa and snowmen in different poses in this cute collection.