Crafters- What are you making???

[Frogdogtimestwo]

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The best received gifts I have made are hooded towels like ducks or I have made dogs, sheep etc. The kids love them! I buy a good quality soft towel (egyptian cotton washes well and stays soft usually) and make a character and then add the kids initials (out of towel material) to the bottom corner so they know it was just for them. My sisters girls have been using theirs for a good 3 years and are still cute. Oh I also tie them up with a pretty ribbon and add a toy that matches the theme like a rubber ducky or a rubber dog bone etc. they are so cute. I looked for a picture of some I have made but could not find one. I usually end up spending around $10.00-12.00 per towel but I use the scraps of color from others I have made in the past to save money (new of course). This is what I always bring for a baby shower gift. Here is a perfect website for inspiration, or to buy them. http://daisiesplace.com/towels2.html

 

[CottageChicken22]

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Sorry I threw away that one with the chicken that had the dreadlocks on the cover, you could have really used that one!!! Are yo using cigar boxes or the paper school boxes about the same shape? Great idea..one year in girl scouts we used the cigar boxes and hot glued seashells and beads all over the top and lined the insides with felt. There were used as jewelry boxes, my daughter took hers off to her college apartment with her..still a keepsake after all these years! You can buy beveled edged mirrors at michaels, or even the dollar tree has some and glue that on the inside lid if you are making the jewelry boxes..very nice.

Yeah, the dreadlocks on the chicken (the polish)
were pretty....ere....unusial.... I'm using just regular boxes that are small.

 

[2dream]

Millions of THANK YOU's from me to all of you.
I now have 2 Christmas Baskets almost ready. I will only need 2 more. I have made those wonderful Christmas Spiders, Scrambled Eggs most wonderful Crock Pot Apple Butter and just before Christmas I will bake up some Ice Cream Bread which I just learned about. Taste wonderful with the apple butter.
For those of you like me who have never heard or tried Ice Cream bread its really hard to do. 2 cups Ice Cream, 1 1/2 cup self rising flour. Soften Ice Cream, dump in flour. Mix by hand slowly just to moisten. DO NOT BEAT. Grease and flour bread pan. Bake at 350 until done (15 to 20 min). I use Butter Pecan Ice Cream. Use whatever you want for the flavor bread you want. Note: This mixture does not rise much. For a thicker bread double recipe.

 

[Easter_pink_silkies]

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*eyes grow wide(flapjack voice)*
I would very much love to do that one day.

Everyone else is making me look bad, im just a jewery maker stringing Christmas colored necklaceses and braclets

 

[Mstmae]

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The best received gifts I have made are hooded towels like ducks or I have made dogs, sheep etc. The kids love them! I buy a good quality soft towel (egyptian cotton washes well and stays soft usually) and make a character and then add the kids initials (out of towel material) to the bottom corner so they know it was just for them. My sisters girls have been using theirs for a good 3 years and are still cute. Oh I also tie them up with a pretty ribbon and add a toy that matches the theme like a rubber ducky or a rubber dog bone etc. they are so cute. I looked for a picture of some I have made but could not find one. I usually end up spending around $10.00-12.00 per towel but I use the scraps of color from others I have made in the past to save money (new of course). This is what I always bring for a baby shower gift. Here is a perfect website for inspiration, or to buy them. http://daisiesplace.com/towels2.html

Ohhhhhhh cute cute cute, now I need to try these! I have plenty of pretty brown towels I can do cows or ponies.......cute cute cute@@@

 

[Frogdogtimestwo]

Glad you like them they are fun to give and easy to make!

 

[Scrambled Egg]

Frog!! Those towels are adorable!!!!! I am so not a sewer...not sure which would be worse torture for me..egg blowing or sewing

but they are absolutley cute as they can be!!!

The ice cream cake? hmmm, is that all the recipe Dreamy?! Might be willing to try that one!! I used to work with a guy that made beer bread, really easy if I could find that recipe, a bit strong on the "yeasty" smell from the whole bottle of beer he used but good flavor. Don't think that would keep long if gift giving.

Easter, a jewelry maker should jump on those spiders!! Same "stuff" involved in the makin and same tools invovled. I bought some gorgeous beads at Michaels day before yesterday for spider making..one inch diameter red cut glass for the body and 1/2 inch clear cut glass for the body and found some opaque tube beads for the legs..should make a pretty Christmas spider!! Easy peasy for a jewelry maker!!

Also found a lightweight wooden ring to glue my wine corks too, gonna make a couple of those wreaths for gifts too!!!

Love this thread...a wealth of great craft ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BackSwampGirl]

Hey yall,I am making soy candles again.I was making them a couple of years ago and health problems got to where I could not.But there has been a lot of people that wants me to make them.So I do make them for sale,and give them as Christmas gifts.They are made from soybeans,and cotton wicks.No additives.If anyone is interested let me know.I will send you my fragrances.

 

[2dream]

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Scrambled, That is what was so great about this bread/cake cross. Set out the ice cream and let it soften, (mine was almost completely melted), dump in the self rising flour. Mix to moisten. Just dump it in the pan and bake. Mine was ready in about 15 min. The lady that gave me the recipe told me her dough was not as heavy as bread dough but not as soupy as cake mix. In my case the dough was pretty thick and sticky. I figured it might have something to do with the different kinds of ice cream we used. Just think of all the flavors of ice cream out there. The combinations are endless. LOL

Easter, Scrambled is right. I too am a bead stringer and when I saw those spiders I jumped on them. I used 2" long head pins because the only wire I had on hand was to soft. The first on was a little akward and I had to tear it up twice. After I got the hang of it the second one was a breeze.

 

[2dream]

Here are my first two spiders. The dark one was the first made with green and black stones. The pink one is the second, made with a pearl and a crystal bead.