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| Craft: Personalized Hand Towels
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 Cheap and easy Christmas gift. Take a new hand towel and some scrap fabric. Sew the scrap fabric to the hand towel and you have a personalized gift. This came about because I was too cheap to buy a Thomas the train towel for my son.
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| Posted on: 12/16/2008 | 2 Feedback(s) |
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| Making Personalized Homemade Gifts
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Gifts and gift making. The last few years I've been making gifts for the adults and kids we exchange with. The gift is typically the same for those that I'm making for to save on time, planning, and materials. Each is personalized based on likes. I've made scarves, trivets, serving trays, hats, and notebooks/journals.
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| Posted on: 12/08/2008 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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| Family Vintage Photo Gift Idea
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This is an inexpensive gift idea. I found a vintage photograph of a great-great-great aunt of my husband's riding a bull. It was too fabulous to do nothing with so I scanned it, made prints (about 18 cents each), and glued the photo to the front of blank note cards I got at a craft store (big pack of maybe 48, including envelopes, for about $5 with a coupon). I made sets of 12, tied them together with a pretty ribbon, and gave to people in my husband's family. They loved them!
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| Posted on: 11/21/2008 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Craft: Organizer from CD Cases
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  Recycle your old CD cases and make an organizer. We made a Father's Day organizer for my husband. I placed photos of the kids on each side and let them decorate their own page.
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| Posted on: 11/11/2008 | 6 Feedback(s) |
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| Craft: Jade's Mending Jar
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 This is Jade's Mending jar. Jade is my niece who has just left school, aged 16 and is now commuting to college everyday. She is studying to become a veterinary surgeon.
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| Posted on: 10/27/2008 | 9 Feedback(s) |
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| Handmade Gift Ideas
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My father is retiring in August, I want to give him a special gift just from me. It has to be sentimental to him, and personal and handmade. He is interested in wild birds, fishing and nature. He is a strong Christian man. Any ideas?
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| Posted on: 07/06/2008 | 15 Feedback(s) |
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| Tips For Making Bath Bombs
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 Bath bombs can be tricky little things to make, or more particularly, to get right! Here are a few common problems, issues, and tips if you're having problems attempting these creations.
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| Posted on: 06/20/2008 | 2 Feedback(s) |
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| Sugar Scrub For Mother's Day
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For Mother's Day, I am making my Mom and Mother in law a homemade sugar scrub as part of their gifts. They are easy to make, economical, and much healthier than store bought scrubs. Here is the recipe:
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| Posted on: 05/07/2008 | 4 Feedback(s) |
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| Thrifty Gift: Brown Sugar Scrub
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 I used an empty jar of mushrooms as a container for a brown sugar scrub. The scrub recipe was brown sugar, baby oil, and body soap. After mixing, I poured into the mushroom jar, hot-glued a fabric scrap from my baby's receiving blanket on the lid, and used a CD label cut in half for my hand lettered label.
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| Posted on: 01/03/2008 | 9 Feedback(s) |
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| Craft: Elegant Clamp Jar For Gift Giving
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By Debra Frick
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 My daughter and I found a whole box of these clamp jars at a yard sale this summer and thought they would be perfect for Christmas so we put them away. She had the idea that she would fill them with candy or nuts for her in-laws, since her father in law loves honey roasted peanuts.
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| Posted on: 12/18/2007 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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