December 19, 2008

Holiday Crafts

I am trying to get into the holiday spirit (which is hard when its not cold or snowy) so I have been doing some crafts to try and help. Enjoy!!! (now, I know I normally post a picture and then the description, but I flipped it this time, just FYI)

Ian and I built a gingergbread house. Now before you get too excited, it was a kit, we just had to assemble it, but Ian assembled it and I decorated it. I think it turned out pretty good for our 1st one ever. Next year we decided we would try and make a more complicated, or at least, a prettier one.



As I was sitting in the waiting room at the doctors office on wednesday before my physical therapy appointment, I was glancing through one of the family magazines and saw the coolest super easy craft project ever. It was making bookmarks out of ribbons and buttons, that you would lay in the book and each end with the button would hang over the end. So I decided I wanted to make some for family & friends. I am still searching for individual buttons but found some packs at Michaels that I thought would be great to send to all my little cousins in Chicago to go along with their christmas gifts from Lisa. It was so easy and fun and I am looking forward to making more. Everyone should try this craft, all you need is a hot glue gun, ribbons & buttons, so easy and cheap!!!



1 comment:

Rachel C said...

Those bookmarks are really cute, I might make those with my kids at work...I wonder if fabric glue would work as well?