Christmas is a great time for making stuff. Now we're only 2 weeks away and I keep finding more stuff I want to make and there just isn't time! Here is a round up of 10 Christmas craft tutorials. Some of them are my ideas, most of them are not. Some of them I have made, some of them I am planning to make but I haven't got round to it yet! All the things in the tutorials can be made using stuff you will probably either have already or can obtain ... Read the Post...
How to Make Scented Christmas Decorations
According to something I was reading on the internet, cinnamon is officially the smell of Christmas. I associate lots of smells with Christmas. Not only cinnamon, but cloves, ginger and nutmeg. These were all ingredients in the Christmas cake and the Christmas puddings. Also pine, the smell of the Christmas tree (we always had a real one, the smell of plastic doesn't quite do it!) and tangerines, when fruit and vegetables were seasonal and you ... Read the Post...
How to Make a Christmas Wreath
Making a Christmas wreath to hang on the door is one of my favourite pre-Christmas tasks. This is actually only the second time I have made a Christmas wreath using a floral foam wreath. I used to bend a wire coat hanger into a circle and attach bits of greenery to it with florists wire but, to be honest, they looked shoddy. The bunches of greenery would slip round and the white coat hanger would be exposed. A couple of times I was so ashamed ... Read the Post...
Ribbon Christmas Decorations
It must be nearly Christmas. How do I know? Apart from the date, obviously. I know because Boy 3 is bouncing off the ceiling. When he came out of school yesterday I thought his teachers must have given him coffee! The Advent Calender is up, the pockets are stuffed and the sweeties are being eaten. The decorations and the tags with the Christmas story on are slowly making their way onto the boys' tree. Instructions how to make one of these can ... Read the Post...
