These sequin covered ornaments are truly a classic craft. If you haven’t tried making them pop on over to the blog Made with Love for an easy tutorial on how to make sequin covered Christmas ornaments.
Freebie | Printable Tabletop Holiday Village
I love this free printable holiday village from Handmade Charlotte. I already have mine all printed out and hope to get it installed over the weekend. Now that the holidays are in full swing and the kids are home … Read More...
Tutorial | Cardboard Gingerbread House Gift Tags
I love this idea from Julee at Warm Hot Chocolate for making gingerbread house gift tags from cardboard. This is a great one to do with kids! Click here to see more.
Free pattern: Felt Christmas cookies
Jessica Peck from Sweetie Pie Bakery shares a free pattern for sewing up some yummy felt Christmas cookies. They look just like the for real ones I made last weekend, though mine had a lot more calories and fat grams … Read More...
Do Not Panic! Get One (Or More) Of These For The Crocheter In Your Life.
Here are a few great ideas for gifts for the crocheter in your life:
High End – Caron Etimo Tulip Crochet Hooks
Not so high end but wonderful:
Yarn!! Nothing could be finer!
High End (available online or at … Read More...
Extra Large Gingerbread Folk
Not only more to eat, but so much more of a canvas to decorate. Bring on the little hands! Make jumbo gingerbread folk HERE at Sweetapolita.
Giant Gingerbread cookie cutters
Tutorial: Candy Cane Charms
Another little candy cane tutorial on video – the charms would be perfect for earring dangles or bead ornaments.
Sunny Citrus Ornaments
I’ve seen orange slice ornaments over the years many times. But this is the first time I’ve seen a star made from the orange peel, how smart! A pretty decoration for Christmas or really, anytime. See the post –>> Sunny … Read More...
Felt Mini Snowman Tutorial
I love these little snowmen and they are easy to make. Change the colors of the scarves to suit your family or friend’s gender or personalities and everyone will fall in love with them. Once again Onel from the bilingual … Read More...
Distressed Gingerbread Man Cat Toys
I simply could not resist sharing this with you. I ama cat lover, we have several. Every year we put presents under the tree for them, along with all of our kids’ presents. I am so in love with everything … Read More...
Chocolate Chip Pancake Mix Gift AND 99 More DIY Gift Ideas
Yep, that’s 100 total. So if you’re still scrambling to come up with some DIY food gift ideas, you’re sure to find something on this list o’ links. Find them all HERE at Oh My Veggies.
Technique: Flower from Satin Ribbon
Jennifer turned satin ribbon into this lovely poinsettia embellishment, it makes for such an elegant card. Visit her blog Ferrellgraph-X and find out how she did it.
-Heather
Some Very Quick Gingerbread (Crochet, That Is)
Ursula has created these adorable and very easy Gingerbread tags and is offering a free pattern and tutorial for us! You can use them as gift tags, ornaments, fridgies, or as Ursula has done in this example – made a … Read More...
Reindeer Cookies
If you get bored with gingerbread men, gingerbread men, gingerbread men everywhere, just turn him upside down and you have your Rudolph. Make reindeer cookies HERE at Sugar Swings!.
Thursday Round-Up | 5 Creative Gift Wrapping Ideas
Have you started your gift wrapping marathon? I’m still trying to find my gift wrap paper, but at least that gives me time to check out some creative gift wrapping ideas! Here are five that I love.
1. Use paper … Read More...
DIY “Needle Felted Tree Skirt” & “Layered & Torn Ornaments”
Shannon and Jen host “Eat. Sleep. MAKE”. They have both been blogging separately for several years (Jen at Her Own Road and Shannon at Details of a Love), but they want to be able to offer their readers as many … Read More...
Gingerbread Man Jelly Shots
Not drunk enough from your snowman JellO shots? Then make some gingerbread man JellO shots. Find the recipe HERE at Rock UR Party. Looking for Christmas themed Cookie Cutters, then check these out.
Berry Ornament Fruit Platter
It’s always good to throw something healthy on the Christmas table… like this lovely berry “ornament.” Find the step-by-step how-tos HERE at Sew Woodsy.
Finds: Winter Sculpture
So I’m stretching it a bit but these are are all neat winter themed or winter coloured sculpture on Flickr – from the quirky to the whimsical to the lovely.
1. Tea Break, 2. blue fish vase revisited, … Read More...
Tutorial: Sew a skirt for your Elf on the Shelf
Hayley from Welcome to the Mouse House whipped up a skirt for the Elf on a Shelf who is causing so much trouble in their house this Christmas season. She wrote up a tutorial showing how to do it, so … Read More...