Christmas homemade gifts

Time to join Kim of the NewlyWoodwards for her weekly Dare to Do It Yourself Blog Party.

Unfortunately I was unable to do the other weeks. But I made myself get-er done for this one.

. This week is homemade gifts and I have worked on a few this past week. I made a burlap banner that says Jingle Bells and has bells tied to the tip of each letter. It was extremely easy and fun. I love working with burlap - in fact I am almost out. Dang.

It ended up quite large so the kiddos had to hold it up for the photo.

Here is a closer shot of the Jingle part.


 
And here is my lovely crafting partner holding up the bells section. Notice the cute bells on the ends?

 
As I have said - I love burlap. So, I made a cute stocking while I was at it. I had so much fun with this that I think we are all getting new stockings this year. I added muslin as the cuff and then put some fun fringe on it. Topped it all off with a burlap flower.

And would it be a holiday without a tassel? I think not. So sticking with my natural elements color theme I did a brown and cream one with a "let it snow" motif. I painted the lovely snowflake with rustoleums Heirloom white - I mean seriously what else would I use? And then used lovely mod podge and some martha glitter. Love it. Gotta quit making all this cute stuff to give away :)

Lastly, my mom's house is not decorated yet. And to a whirlwind- thinks everyone should be decorated by now and done to the nines kinda gal it made me sad. So the kids and I made her a wreath today. We had dinner with them tonight and felt it would be a great thing to give her then. We had fun doing it but man does it take a lot more ornaments than I thought - and if you wait this late the dollar tree no longer has the green and red- only silver and gold. So, gold got added to the mix. My daughter would love a pink one with silver..maybe after Christmas. 

And had to end with a shot of my wreath making helpers. Aren't they cute? And no I did not pick out her outfit she did it all alone. Somehow she thinks that the blue polka dots on the shirt tie into the blue of the dress. Don't ask?

We spent the morning helping festive up my sisters house. Fun there. Will take photos when it is all done. Enjoy the week and stay warm all.

I am also linking this up to:

the DIY Show Off

DIY Day at ASPTL

Celebrate the Holidays with It's so Cheri

The Boardwalk Bragfest

Creative Cats Friday

Saturday Nite Special