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Personalized Christmas Balls

Creating a personalized, ornamental ball for the tree can be as individual as you like. Mine are red balls with golden glass paint depicting a design and each loved one's name.

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Stone Garden Markers

Natural looking yet practical plant identifiers, easy to make and waterproof to boot!

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Mosaic Picture Frame

Colorful pieces of tile elevate a standard picture frame to something extraordinary.

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Grapevine Garden Trellis

A rustic looking ladder for sweet peas or other climbers to scramble up in your garden or in a planter on your patio.

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Lavender Sachets

Sweetly scented of spring, these sachets filled with lavender and tied with a ribbon are lovely to slip into a drawer for freshly scented linen or lingerie.

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Teacup Planters

This simple project is a wonderful way to use the china teacups gathering dust on your shelves. Filled with soil and ivy they make dainty and long-lived planters.

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Dried Flower Wreath

A wreath of everlasting flowers that keeps summer memories in your home year round. Dried flowers can be purchased inexpensively from a florist shop if you haven't any on hand. Tansy, strawflowers and others are glued to a wooden wreath covered with moss. Well worth the extra effort!

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Driftwood Door Handle

A simple thrifty project to add elegance and character to an entranceway (or even a shed door!)

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Homemade Address Book

A handmade paper address book made of fine paper and a lovely greeting card. Perfect for your address book or to give to a friend.

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Flannel Pillow Instructions

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Velvet Scarf

Create this luxurious accessory for a fraction of the cost of a store-bought scarf. Trimmed with silk flowers or beads, the end result is sheer bliss.

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Jelly Jar Candles

Candlelight dances and flickers in these old fashioned candles, reminding you of the Christmases of yesteryear. A bow of raffia or string of bead wired around the rim add a finishing touch if you like. A wonderful way to reuse jelly jars from all that summer canning!

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Sponge-Painted Mugs

Easy and economical. Whip up a set of these sponge-painted mugs with Christmas motifs faster than you can brew up the coffee to fill them (well almost)!

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Three-dimensional Paper Christmas Tree

True to its name, a three-dimensional tree of thick green paper, covered with silver stars.

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Covered Matchbox

Matches dressed up for the holidays! Small rectangular matchboxes covered with gift-wrap. These also would make nice gift boxes for dolls.

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Stone Garden Markers

Stone Garden MarkersNatural looking yet practical plant identifiers, easy to make and waterproof to boot!


Mosaic Picture Frame

Mosaic Picture FrameColorful pieces of tile elevate a standard picture frame to something extraordinary.


Grapevine Garden Trellis

Grapevine Garden TrellisA rustic looking ladder for sweet peas or other climbers to scramble up in your garden or in a planter on your patio.


Lavender Sachets

Lavender SachetsSweetly scented of spring, these sachets filled with lavender and tied with a ribbon are lovely to slip into a drawer for freshly scented linen or lingerie.