NOTE: For more photos of Wooden Christmas Blocks, check HERE! If you can cut a piece of 2×4, you can make this project. BTW… even if YOU can’t cut a 2×4, many lumber yards are willing to do it for you for a nominal fee. Use your imagination to share greetings and messages by simply stenciling letters to …
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Felted Wool & Ribbon Ornament Balls
Felted Wool & Ribbon Ornament Balls Materials: Styrofoam Balls (we used egg shapes because we found some in the back of the closet) Colorful Wool Roving Ribbon (enough to wrap the ball 3x) Thread that matches the Ribbon optional: Needle felting tools Felted Wool & Ribbon Ornament Balls Directions Smooth out a section of wool …
Wool Felt Tree Forest Pattern
Our Christmas gnomes, Holly and Noel, are in the Evergreen Forest dicussing the possibility of snow! Directions for a large tree (6″), medium tree (4″) and bush (2″) can be found below. Wool Felt Tree Forest Pattern Materials: 1/4″ dowel rod: (6″ tall, 4″ medium, and 2″ bush.) base: approximately 1 1/2″ sliced branch, 3/4″ tall NOTE: …
Advent Tree Count Down Calendar Pattern
Counting down the days until Christmas is a tradition shared by many Christian families. Our simple Advent Tree with a star meandering up the tree, will help your family celebrate the season. This is sure to become an heirloom, eliciting memories of Christmases past as the years go by. Merry Christmas to all! Finished Size: 24″ …
Christmas Tree Card
Whether you keep this card simple or embellish it with ornaments and glitter, its simple cutout shape will make for a lovely handmade Christmas card to share with family and friends. Very easy to make, you’ll have a stack ready for mailing in no time! HO! HO! HO! Materials: green cards and envelopes 5 1/2″ …
Christmas Corner – Christmas Tree Cards and Spur of the Moment Giveaway!
Here is our first variation of our Christmas Tree Applique Block. I wanted the use the applique to make this year’s Christmas cards. Because I have so many cards to make, I wanted to keep the design rather simple. I started with a package of blank cards from JoAnns. They came packaged with 10 cards …
Christmas Corner – Christmas Tree Applique Block
Although we are not done sharing fall crafts, we all know if we want to get things done in time for the holidays, we have to start now (or in July if you’re really together!) So, we would like to share our first item in our Christmas Corner. We mentioned in an earlier post …
Holiday Break
Like most of you, the next couple of weeks are going to be very busy! Starting, gulp, day after tomorrow, our home will be swarming with out-of-town guests, and the celebrating will begin. Although I couldn’t be happier, I do feel like a deer in headlights. Rather stunned. Where did all the time go? I had months …
Cornflakes Wreath Cookie Recipe
These festive green and red Wreath Cookies will brighten up any tray of Christmas cookie. Below is our Cornflakes Wreath Cookie Recipe. Every year we do a very informal family poll. Question: If we can only make 3 cookies this year, what 3 do you want us to make? Answer: There is always a variety of answers. I can …
Surprise Cookie Recipe :: Christmas Cookie
As part of our Christmas cookie series, today we are sharing one of our family’s traditional cookies. Here is our Surprise Cookie Recipe. My Bushia was a marvelous cook…of basic foods. And, hey, let’s face it, we consume mostly basic foods, right? As a mother of 13 children there wasn’t much time for fluff, but …
Drawing with Wool
A little while ago I decided that I wanted to make a series of images to display inside the kids’ play house. I think it will be nice to change these out seasonally. I didn’t really have a set plan, but this seemed like a good time to try out a new medium for me… …
Scottish Shortbread Recipe :: Christmas Cookies
I love shortbread with my afternoon coffee. It isn’t too sweet and melts in your mouth. This is the first Christmas cookie we have made this season. Although it is early, the Scottish Shortbread recipe freezes well and will keep until we have guests around. I have never actually made this cookie before, so this …