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Sewing: Christmas Stocking
Can’t find a Christmas stocking to suit your holiday colour scheme? Make one! This year I’m playing with black and white fabrics for my sewing projects in the 12 Days of Christmas celebration. This tutorial is a great way to create a gift for someone, or even to act as a way of wrapping a gift. What You Need 1/4-1/2 of a yard each of 2 coordinating fabrics 20 inches of ribbon matching thread machine First – pick a stocking you already have and make…
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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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Recipe: Holiday Crack
The holidays are here – well, almost. This recipe is a hit any where you go – it’s easy and doesn’t require a lot of time (except for cooling). Let’s get baking this holiday crack. Try it! You’ll be hooked. Ingredients a sleeve of salted saltine crackers 2 sticks of salted butter 1 cup of dark brown sugar 270g bag of milk chocolate chips First – gather your ingredients. Lay out parchment paper on a baking sheet and then evenly lay out the saltine crackers.…
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Sewing: Holiday Runner
You might be catching on – all of my sewing projects for this celebration of the 12 Days of Christmas are in black and white. Why? I’m not an overly big fan of green and red together and this year I decided to keep things fresh and clean. Plus, this way I can use the holiday runner all year round! The number one key to making this runner look as professional as possible – ensuring your measuring of the fabric is dead on. If you…
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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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Recipe: White Hot Chocolate
This white hot chocolate recipes has a special treat – candy cane cool-whip. So festive and delicious. Ingredients 2-3 cups of cool-whip 1/2 cup of crushed candy cane 1/4 cup of white chocolate chips 1 cup of milk 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla First, you’ll want to start the candy cane cool-whip a few hours before. Spoon the cool-whip into a bowl and add in 3/4 of the crushed candy cane. Stir well. In a parchment paper lined flat dish, I used a cake round, spoon…
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Sewing: Advent Calendar
Day one in the 12 Days of Christmas Celebration 2014. It’s advent calendar time. What I love about this project (and most of the sewing and DIY projects in this celebration) is that it’s black and white. So fresh. These numbered bags could help you count down to anything…a trip, a birthday, and not just a visit form jolly old St. Nick. All of my fabric came from my scrap box – one of the many reasons it’s so awesome to keep a box of…
