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12 Days of Christmas Thank You
Thank you to all of the people who visited over the last few weeks! You have made the 12 Days of Christmas a huge success. 12 Days of Christmas Thank You PS – only 12 more days until Christmas – time to start celebrating! Last year I celebrated the 12 days of Christmas by doing the 12 days of Cookies. This year, I’ve divided it up a bit: 4 sewing projects, 4 DIY projects, and 4 treat recipes. Here’s a little recap! Full list of…
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Project: Button Ornament
Today is the last day in the 12 days of Christmas here at 3ten.ca. What do we have today – a button ornament! What You Need glue gun glue stick bunch of buttons card stock ribbon scissors First – gather all of your stuff and start heating up the glue gun. Cut out a shape in your card stock and start layering the buttons. I selected black, white and grey/silver buttons in keeping with the black and white theme of this year’s projects. Be sure…
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Project: DIY Dollar Store Tray
Why would you want to make a tray out of items from the dollar store? Here’s why: Attending a holiday work party and want your items to look attractive, presentable, yet you don’t have time to ‘guard’ your favourite dish? Or, perhaps, you’re attending a wine night at a friends and you don’t want to worry about bringing your platter back home, yet you don’t want to sacrifice the presentation. These are reasons to spend the 2$ (oh, and maybe another 0.25$ for the glue)…
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Project: Reindeer Sign
This fun holiday sign is a decorative way to show your holiday spirit. And, you can make this reindeer sign in less than an hour. What You Need fabric paint – black and red canvas ruler First – measure out your canvas. Mine was 24 inches long, so using 2 inches on the top and the bottom for the ‘border’, so I had 20 inches to work with. Knowing that I have 9 names, that gives me about 2 1/4 inches per name. I don’t…
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Project: DIY Sugar Scrub
Bath products for Christmas! Yes. Homemade gifts that are cost saving and are gifts that people will use? Yes. Every year I like to make little gifts for the people I work with, or for people who invite us over for dinner, for cookies, or just so say thank you – like my massage therapist. This DIY sugar scrub is great, plus, the jars are so cute. This recipe is part of the 12 Days of Christmas celebration and is the first DIY project. What…
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12 Days of Christmas
Time to start decking the halls!! 12 Days of Christmas Don’t you just love the spirit of the holiday season? It’s so cheery and full of love. Last year I celebrated the 12 days of Christmas by doing the 12 days of Cookies. This year, I’ve divided it up a bit: 4 sewing projects, 4 DIY projects, and 4 treat recipes. This is a little preview of what’s to come. Visit over the next couple of weeks to see the project tutorials and recipes. I’ll…
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Project: Halloween Treat Bags
It’s Halloween! halloween Treat Bags Time for treat bags. Last year I made loot bags and they were a big hit. This year, I wanted to do something similar, yet I wanted to keep within the same price point. The soda pop – each can was 0.25$…a 4 pack was a dollar. It’s a pretty funky old school pop can, I think it’s neat and very retro. Get this – Walmart was selling Halloween full size chocolate bars, 8 for 6.77$, or if you went…
