Gifts Received

Now with all my posts about the home made gifts that I made this year I figured I should share some of the home made gifts that we received this year.

My sister made the girls some fun felt play food.

My dad made my sis, mom and myself each an awesome shelving unit.

 

My mom made all the grandkids Christmas pj's (which S is wearing in the pic, cutie sleepin on the chair). 

I was also given that 'K' artwork, made also by my sister.

My sister-in-law made me this sweet tea cup candle as well as a scarf and hat.

And the last one I would like to share is tutu dresses that the girls got which my niece and nephew made for them. (unfortunately I don't have a decent pic of T in her dress)

 I thought it was a fantastic idea to do home made Christmas. I certainly enjoyed the challenge of making and the gifts received are ones to be treasured.

Happy Monday!

Scrabble Ornaments and Christmas Kisses

 After making some of the big crafts for home made Christmas it was nice to make a couple small easy ones to throw in with some of the presents. Like these scrabble name ornaments.

 

Unlike the retro game board (70's) that I had bought for the scrabble wall art this set was from the 1950's. It was in great shape, I even kept the instruction sheet it was pretty neat.... I should mention that it was only $0.25!

 For teachers gifts for both S's preschool teacher and classroom aid I used the FREE printable offered from Bloom Design for these cute little kiss-mas treat boxes.

Both the chevron washi tape and the clear boxes were from Pick your Plum.

More home made gifts still to come!

Happy Tuesday!

Painted Presents

 

 My sister requested something home decorish so I decided to do up a canvas for her as part of her gift. 

I loved this FREE chalkboard printable from The Elli Blog and figured I would recreate it in gold. 

I really really liked the finish product and might just make one for myself.

I also did an inspirational canvas for our niece. 

I loved the wording and loose writing from this print.

Happy Saturday!

Dollys for the Dollys

 I read somewhere that every little girl should own a homemade doll. 

So I decided to make one each for my girlies and my niece this year for Christmas.

I used the Ruby Lou Doll Pattern by Sew Much Ado which I had bought in a pattern bundle last year. I was so excited to make them and the pattern was super easy to follow and all three dollies came together rather quickly.

 

I also made some aprons for the dolls which were left over from panels for kids size aprons.

 

And I finally used those embroidered squares (remember from WAY back when?!) and sewed together a little dolly quilt for T (I had already made a dolly quilt for S back in the day, so T needed one). 

Happy Wednesday!

For the Star Wars Fanatic

I had this guy in our family gift exchange this year.

That's my brother-in-law and he is a Star wars fan, if you can't tell. 

(He actually hand made that costume he is wearing! Impressive right?!)

I follow Pixel Power on facebook and he puts out some great character cross stitch patterns. I have been wanting to do one of his designs up for awhile. He even has a list of some free patterns. That is where I found this awesome Luke, I Am Your Father pattern as well as the Darth Vader quote which I thought would work in the BIL's office. You might recognize the same type of style as the Jack Sparrow perler bead craft I did using another one of Pixel Powers patterns.

Happy Thursday!

.....And Happy New Year!

lets not go ice fishin', how bout we stay inside

So I've been doing some tons of projects for Christmas and I'm pretty close to giving a 100% home made. I kind of feel jipped of the Christmas shopping experience but I'm getting used to the idea especially since I'm not constantly handing over the credit card. 

There is not much I can share with you pre-Christmas but I figured a couple of 3 year old's probably wouldn't be checkin the blog anytime soon.

For our nephews I made them each a magnetic fishing set. 

(7 different fish and rod with a worm attached to the end)

Each fish has a washer sewn to the end. The 'worm' is made out of a leftover piece of tights (used for the Jillian Jiggs Pigs) stuffed with two strong, long and skinny magnets which I found at Home Hardware. I quickly whipped up two drawstring bags from fat quarters and threw in each set.

 I don't even need to wrap these gifts, they are good to go.

Happy Friday!

*** Update: I knew I saw this somewhere on Pinterest and I found the pin that was stuck in my head (not on one of my pinboards). Check out Home Stories A2Z's Fish set.