If you’re like me you’ve got loads of cardboard boxes piling up from all the gifts you’ve ordered online this year. Before you recycle them tear of some corrugated pieces of cardboard and make a wonderful recycled ornament for your … Read More...
DIY: Glittered Cinnamon Ornaments
I think these glittered cinnamon ornaments are stunning ( and I bet they smell heavenly too) ! Rachel posted the tutorial for creating these on the blog, Adventures in Making. She shares the recipe for the dough as well as … Read More...
Tutorial: No-sew Frozen princess Christmas stockings
Holly & Nat from My Sister’s Suitcase share a tutorial for making Christmas stockings inspired by the Frozen princesses Elsa and Anna. Both stockings started out as inexpensive stockings from the discount store. They added faux fur and trims and … Read More...
Project: Frozen Olaf quilt
Shauna of Shwin&Shwin made this quilt for her daughter Abbey who is a fan of the movie Frozen. Relieved she liked the Olaf character the best, she got this happy snowman pieced and quilted in just 3 days. That’s … Read More...
Present Cake with Ornament Surprise Inside
This is beautiful! The cake as a present is breathe taking, but your guests will be in awe after you slice the cake. I showed another cake like this one, but with a peace sign earlier this year. This is … Read More...
Tutorial: Peppermint stripe Christmas tree skirt
Liz from Say Yes shows how you can make this peppermint stripe Christmas tree skirt. The sewing is simple, or you could use glue (or fusible hem tape) and make it a no-sew project. At first glance I thought the … Read More...
Tutorial: Felt flower Christmas headband
Terra from Mama Says Sew shares a tutorial for making this Christmas headband with a cluster of felt flowers. Her tutorial shows how to make each kind of flower, and also how to make the elastic headband. You could also … Read More...
How to: felt snowflakes Tutorial
Robyn of the “fuzzy lizards” made a ton of these out of paper, but she thought felt ones would make good little gifts for co-workers. I think these also would make daring for Christmas tree ornaments and gift toppers and … Read More...
How to make a melted crayon ornament
We have all seen melting crayon scraps into rainbow crayons and even the ironing them in between wax paper to make sun catchers but this idea for melting the crayon scraps in a glass ornament and swirling it around is … Read More...
(Updated) What do food banks need the most?
Food banks are non-profit organizations that collect and distribute food to people in need. They work to address food insecurity, which is the lack of access to enough food for an active, healthy life.
Food banks usually receive donations of … Read More...
Tutorial: Easy felt reindeer candy cane holders
Here’s a fun little Christmas project you can sew up super fast. Heather from The Sewing Loft shows how to make these reindeer candy cane holders. They’re simple felt sleeves that hold two candy canes. Fabric ears are sewn into … Read More...
Tutorial: Christmas stocking gift card holders
As the kids in my extended family get older, presents of toys and books are more and more becoming replaced with money or gift cards
. And it gets harder year after year to come up with new ways of … Read More...
DIY Ombre Christmas Tree
I shared the tutorial for this altered Christmas tree on my own personal blog, Punk Projects. Ombre is still a growing, popular trend so I took a white Christmas tree and 3 colors of spray paint to make this blue … Read More...
Tutorial: Handmade Christmas Decorations
Yes, I love handmade Christmas decorations. Some of that is occupational hazard type area: I’d better like what I do. Some of that is simply because you can get the most custom, interesting, quirky ornaments. Katie Webster offers us a … Read More...
Sew4Home shows how you can make a set of placemats and coordinating napkins, pretty to dress up your holiday table. The ticking they used creates a candy cane stripe around the placemat, and also gives them a homespun old-timey feel.… Read More...
Christmas Sweater Presents {DIY}
Chelsea of “Two Twenty One” is a married lady with a new baby Owen; who was born in the fall. If you get a chance read her birthing story, WOW! Well, she has this creative sweater present that she used … Read More...
Edible Snow Recipe
I am happy to share the snow that we receive in the winter time, but it doesn’t work well when it comes to decorating your food items. Most people use white icing or frosting and then add sprinkles to make … Read More...
DIY Fabric Photo Newsletter Ornaments
Amy from Delineate Your Dwelling shared these handmade ornaments. Using fabric, Amy created these “newsletter” ornaments. She partnered with Spoonflower to make design the photo fabric and then stitched them into these fun tree / triangle shapes. I love that … Read More...
Tutorial | Festive Decorative Tape
Use your Silhouette Machine and the Silhouette Studio software to make custom decorative tape for the festive season. You’ll need a free dingbat font too, you can find some suggestions here. Maritza at Maritza Lisa explains how to design, … Read More...
Freebie: Printable House Shaped Box
Download, print, cut out and assemble this cute house shaped box and tuck inside small gifts or candy. You can get this printable for free over at the Me in Lila Park blog.
-Heather