Handmade Christmas Gifts

Food Co-op Melbourne and A Handmade Christmas Gift Of Tea!

November 25, 2010

This post is part of my Christmas Preparation plan. This week’s task was making the last of our handmade Christmas gifts. This year we have also made some retro coasters, chalkboard notice boards and a simple bunny softie. ***** The three younger kids and I had a great time earlier this week visiting the Friends [...]

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Chalkboard Paint Ideas

September 3, 2010

This is the second handmade Christmas Gift I have made with the kids for Christmas 2010. The first one was a simple softie. If you are looking for more inspiration check out my posts with other ideas on Handmade Christmas Gifts. Earlier this year for the school fair craft stall, I made some simple chalkboards [...]

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Book Review: Simple Softies For The Whole Family (and our first handmade Christmas Gift for 2010!)

July 9, 2010

This week we finally had time to make something from the very gorgeous book Simple Softies For The Whole Family. This is the third book in the series, first was Softies and then there was More Softies. My aim for this project was to let my daughter make the softie herself from start to finish, [...]

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Super Easy Button Snap Clips

April 21, 2010

How gorgeous are these self cover button snap clips? And the great thing is not only are they gorgeous but incredibly easy to make! Now if you have been reading this blog for even a small while, you will now that I am very fond of self cover buttons. So I felt particularly lucky when [...]

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Homemade Chocolate Sauce

December 10, 2009

If you are trying to get organised for Christmas, check out my 10 Week Christmas Plan. Only 2 weeks left until Christmas! Back in July, I embarked on a Christmas Planning In July session, aimed to take the pressure of this end of the year. It was at this time that I bookmarked a post [...]

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Children’s Card Making Kits

October 29, 2009

With eight weeks to Christmas, according to my 10 Week Christmas Preparation Plan, my task this week is to complete making the handmade gifts that we will be giving to family and friends. Each year I am making a few more things, to add to the handmade collection, but I still do purchase the majority [...]

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Fabric Covered Button Bobby Pins

September 25, 2009

Earlier in September I made Self Cover Button Hair Ties. I think I could be coming addicted to these buttons!! They are really my style of craft, easy and fun to make and they look great. Since then I purchased a bulk lot of buttons from Jackobindi and I have made more hair ties with [...]

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Fabric Covered Stationery

August 20, 2009

This is the second hand made item that we have produced for our Christmas Gifts this year. The first was the Children’s Fancy Dress Tiaras. I picked up this idea from the completely clever Jessica Jones at How About Orange. My friend Cath and I got together to give it a whirl the other night. [...]

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Dress Up Tiaras – Christmas Planning 2009

July 9, 2009

Last year was the most organised that I had ever been for a Christmas. It was also a year that I handmade the most gifts as well. This occurred primarily to crafting and planning sessions that I undertook for a couple of months from July onwards last year with my lovely friend Cath. Christmas Planning [...]

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Christmas Planning – Homemade Bath Salts

October 23, 2008

This post is part of my series on handmade Christmas Gifts. Instructions for the other items can be found here: Handmade Fabric Covered Notebooks Handmade Fabric Necklaces Homemade Works Of Art The countdown continues – 9 weeks until Christmas. My countdown is naturally of a planning nature and I am working through a Christmas Preparation [...]

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Christmas Planning – Handmade Fabric Necklaces

August 16, 2008

SPOILER ALERT – To my family and friends, please do not read on as you may see your Christmas Gift for this year! In my attempt this year to be well and truly organised for Christmas and the busy period leading up to it, I have been making some handmade gifts to give to people [...]

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Christmas Planning In July – Home Made Works Of Art

July 31, 2008

SPOILER ALERT – To my family and to the children’s “special” friends, please do not read on as you may see your Christmas Gift for this year! Last week I showed the handmade books that I have set aside for Christmas Gifts this year. Today is a very simple activity which can be done with [...]