For the twentieth day of A Gift a Day, I made diamond bobby pins. Diamond Bobby Pins Using wire cutters, I cut apart a broken cubic zirconia necklace. I used bobby pins that I already had on hand. Supplies: broken necklacebobby pinsE6000 Glue or super glue Tools: wire cutterstoothpick for applying glue Ahh! A paper…
Felt Paper Dolls For the nineteenth day in the Gift a Day series, I made felt “paper” dolls. I had not been planning to make any toys at all this year, as we have plenty of toys, but when I saw these I was smitten! This did require a cost for supplies, as I did…
Felt “paper” dolls. I’ll be posting about these later today. I made several Christmas gifts. I mended a jacket. I used 2 buttons from my button jar as part of a Christmas gift. I paid a quarterly bill online that I usually mail. I cut both boys’ hair and trimmed the baby’s hair. We enjoyed…
Meyer Lemons–yes, they really are that yellow! This week we harvested Meyer Lemons. Every time I’ve photographed these before someone thinks they’re oranges. They’re a very dark, intense yellow. They are large; often they are the size of an orange. They have a thin rind, they are full of juice (I have been able to…
For the eighteenth day of A Gift a Day, I made slippers. Last year I made 4 pairs of slippers, all very similar to these ones. I made a few changes to these this year, including zigzagging the seams to keep the satin from unraveling, and making the elastic longer than called for in the pattern…
We have two winners for our paper dolls giveaway! The winner of the coloring book is Jade Garn! The winner of the pdf version of the coloring book is Cheryl DeGroote! If you didn’t win, you might want to check out the sales at Lily and Thistle right…
Welcome back to everyone’s favorite post of the week! Here are some of the things I did this week to save money for our family: I harvested basil, tangerines, a little bit of lettuce and arugula, and Meyer lemons from the garden. I made Christmas gifts for a total of $0.40. I started several others….
For the seventeenth day of A Gift a Day, I made embroidered handkerchiefs. I printed out initials for my children on my computer. I print the letters at a minimum of size 72. I then choose fonts that look best for that particular letter. I chose fancier fonts for the girls. You can tape the paper…
Otherwise known as the hardest embroidery project I’ve ever done. (The second hardest was this lavender). Some of you were excited about using coloring pages as embroidery designs, so I thought I would share another way to use a coloring page as an embroidery design. I used some scraps of fabric last Christmas, some black…
My original plan was just to post gifts during the month of November. However, I have decided to continue this series for a while into December as I continue to make gifts for my family. I thought that you might like to see what else I’m making! For the sixteenth day of A Gift a Day,…
I used the coloring book as an embroidery pattern for one of my upcoming Christmas gifts. When you’re making homemade gifts for $0 to $1 (on average) a gift for your children, what do you do for stocking stuffers? Stocking stuffers don’t have to be expensive. I put an orange or a clementine in the toe of each stocking….
It was a beautiful week of fall weather. I’m enjoying our long fall this year. Our first frost usually hits between November 13th and December 15th. It’s usually toward the end of November, but it hasn’t come yet, and the weather was just beautiful all week. Of course, no one wanted to be inside. …