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Fabric Christmas Cards Directions
Materials: Christmas Fabric (a pattern that cuts down to 4″ x 5″ nicely) Pretty Card Stock (available at office supply stores) Matching Envelopes (size 4.5″ x 5.75″) Inside Greeting Layout (make your own or download ours) Paper Cutter or Scissors Pinking Sheers Glue Stick Get pretty colored card stock and matching envelopes. We got ours …
Fabric Christmas Cards
I’ve been working on my Christmas cards this past week. I still have a handful to make but these are fun and easy and I’m hoping to be done this evening. These are the cards we will be giving to our friends and teachers. For this project I converted my mother’s Christmas tree applique block …
Christmas Butter Cookies
NOTE: There is still plenty of time to share your favorite Christmas cookie with us. Just mail us the recipe, photo if you have one, and a little “background” about the cookie. Also, if you’d like your blog shared, make sure to include your URL. Then email all the info to weefolkart@yahoo.com! Today we are sharing …
Sweater Flambe :: BEEF BOURGUIGNONNE Recipe
Thanksgiving is behind us and ahead “looms” Christmas. Sounds rather ominous, doesn’t it? If you are responsible for preparing a holiday meal, especially if it is your first attempt, the thought of “messing it up” can be daunting. Below is a story I shared November 13, 2007 on my recently retired blog One Generation to …
Calico Mason Jar Cover
This is the simplest Mason jar cover around… so simple it hardly needs instructions! Mason Jar Cover Materials: Calico fabric 1/4″ ribbon Mason jars Mason Jar Cover Directions: 1] Find a round object (I used a 7″ sandwich plate) the size of the cover you want, and trace a circle on your fabric. 2] Using …
Wet Felted Wool Cookie Cutter Ornaments
This week’s Unplugged Challenge theme Fluffy inspired us to do two different crafts. Here is the first one… Wet Felted Wool Gingerbread Men Ornaments. I will be sharing the second activity later this week. We started by digging through some of Gammy’s large bags of Wool Roving. We then tracked down some gingerbread men cookie …
Wanted: Christmas Cookie Recipes!
When I was a little girl, one of my favorite things about the Holidays was baking with my mother. She loved… nah, loves… to bake, and the Christmas cookie platter in our house was always overflowing with the most delectable variety of cookies imaginable. Some of the recipes were hand-me-downs from the family. Some were …
Wooden Christmas Blocks
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 …
Wool Roving Ornaments
Confession… we are in full blown Christmas mode here. We are so “That Family”… you know the type that already has the tree up (or should I say trees) and lights on the house (although we haven’t turn them on yet). The kids wanted to decorate and it seemed like a good idea to me. …
Stocking Stuffers – Nubbie Dolls
One of the nicest things about our ever growing data base of patterns and appliques, is the ability to mix and match projects, or to repurpose projects for different needs. For example, take the pattern for our Nubbie Doll, make it in a beautiful Christmas flannel, and you have an absolutely perfect stocking stuffer for …
Gathering Materials for the Felt Forest
Long, long ago… in an enchanted forest far, far away… Last year I posted directions for making the wooden peg gnomes. They were standing in front of some felt evergreens I had just thrown together. I didn’t bother writing up the directions at the time… I wasn’t featuring the trees… they were just a backdrop …