Have you been on a beach holiday and spent some time collection shells? Or maybe you’re lucky enough to live close to the ocean and go every chance you get! (This was me when we lived in Maui and Florida.) If so, get ready to make some sea shell angels! What you’ll need to make a Sea Shell Angel:…
The gifts for our son this year were made to co-ordinate with the colors he has chosen to decorate his apartment. His main furniture pieces are black or white or charcoal grey. He has accented those with pops of green and orange here and there. He has made some additions since we helped him move a little over a year…
I only sewed one of our middle daughter’s gifts this year. The other one I crocheted. When our children were still very little, I began the tradition of making them each an ornament for Christmas. That way when they all eventually left home they would have Christmas ornaments for their own trees that had memories attached to them. Several years…
Back in May of last year, I picked up this bag of scraps at a quilt shop north of London, On. As you can see, I opened the package before I thought to take a picture of it. But it wasn’t the pretty red and white floral fabric that had caught my eye. It was the rest of the fabrics…
In 2011, from March to the end of the year, on the 25th of each month, I posted ideas to create Christmas on a Budget. As I’ve mentioned before, this past year has been one of major on-going transition for Dave and I and Christmas has really been the last thing on my mind. But now with only a month…
We weren’t sure how we were going to manage to do Christmas this year living in our temporary housing, but it turned out wonderful in so many ways. Our Christmas celebrations started on the 18th with the decorating of the Christmas tree. Earlier in the week, we found a tree stand at a thrift store for $5 and then Saturday,…
Have you seen the price of Christmas stockings? Not the plain red ones with a bit of fake fur at the top (our kids had these when they were little) and can be picked up at the dollar store. I’m talking about the really nice ones. I’ve seen them priced anywhere from $20 on up. You can make your own…
With just two months to go until Christmas Day, not only must we continue to carefully budget our dollars but if we are planning to complete handmade gifts for those on our list, we will also need to budget our time wisely. Inspired by the one hour table runners I made during October’s Friday Night Sew In, I thought I’d…
Last month, for my Christmas on a Budget Series, I wrote about Building Traditions by repeating memory building activities year after year. One tradition that I started when our children were little was to make them a new Christmas ornament every year to hang on the tree. The idea was that by the time they left home, they would each…
Cut a length of ribbon 50”. Find the center of the length of ribbon and place a pin there. To determine where to place the ribbon, measure down 7 inches from the center of the top edge of the bag and pin the center of the ribbon at that point. Measure down 7 inched from center of each grommet and…