Show me your Christmas projects! What are you making?
Last year for my daughter's first Christmas, we hung up actual socks. This year I decided to make matching stockings, and I love how they turned out. I cut the pieces from a sweater dress from Goodwill, sewed with embroidery thread, and made the appliques from my scrap fabric.
A few days ago my daughter was having the best time stacking up some pieces of scrap wood. I realized it's kind of embarrassing that she doesn't have proper blocks. Lol. Rather than order something last minute and add to the crazy amount of holiday shipping, we decided to make them ourselves. My husband got around some maple, cherry, and hickory, and I threw in a few walnut pieces left over from our window trim. I covered them with a beeswax and coconut oil finish and baked them in the oven at 200 degrees for 10 minutes, then polished with a soft cloth. I'm so excited for her to play with them on Christmas morning.
Finally, because grown ups can't have all the fun, I found a fun way for the little one to make her own Christmas cards. She can't really color a shape yet, so I traced a Christmas tree on pictures she had already drawn and cut them out. Then I let her do the glue stick by herself, which she really liked. They turned out great!
Last year for my daughter's first Christmas, we hung up actual socks. This year I decided to make matching stockings, and I love how they turned out. I cut the pieces from a sweater dress from Goodwill, sewed with embroidery thread, and made the appliques from my scrap fabric.
A few days ago my daughter was having the best time stacking up some pieces of scrap wood. I realized it's kind of embarrassing that she doesn't have proper blocks. Lol. Rather than order something last minute and add to the crazy amount of holiday shipping, we decided to make them ourselves. My husband got around some maple, cherry, and hickory, and I threw in a few walnut pieces left over from our window trim. I covered them with a beeswax and coconut oil finish and baked them in the oven at 200 degrees for 10 minutes, then polished with a soft cloth. I'm so excited for her to play with them on Christmas morning.
Finally, because grown ups can't have all the fun, I found a fun way for the little one to make her own Christmas cards. She can't really color a shape yet, so I traced a Christmas tree on pictures she had already drawn and cut them out. Then I let her do the glue stick by herself, which she really liked. They turned out great!
