Hand Made Christmas

Hello Everyone. I wanted to share some of the stuff I made for Christmas this year. Just like everyone else, cash was a little tight. I figured that I might be able to make a Christmas gift, that would hopefully be as nice as anything I could buy in the store.

Here's a Makeup bag I made for my little sister. I bought some linen fabric at Jo-ann's and hand embroidered the design with embroidery floss. I cut the flower out of felt, and stitched it to the bag with her initial in the center of the flower. That was the easy part. The sewing is the hard part for me. I'm not a seamstress, by any means at all, so actually putting the whole thing together was the real test. I added a heart shaped bead to the zipper pull as a cute little accent.



Here is a Frame that I made for my little brother. He's a poker dealer, so I knew I wanted to make him something with a poker theme.

I aged a deck of cards with some walnut ink, and bought a Frame and large uncut photo mat from Hobby Lobby. I arranged the cards into the shape of a Spade and glued them all down.



I have to say, I really think that they liked these two gifts more than they've ever liked anything that I've bought. I loved making them and I'm glad that they turned out well.

This year was the most relaxed Christmas I've had in a very long time. There wasn't any freaking out about what to buy, or if I could afford it. There wasn't even any time spent running around the mall. That in itself is amazing!

Who knows? I might even make this a tradition.