make all my Christmas gifts this year

I believe people really like their handmade gifts. Let’s see how I can do this year, I have to come up with some new ideas.

I bought everyone one gift and gave them a homemade gift too. I was very proud of the glass jewlery I gave everyone and they all loved it. I just love shopping too much to make all my gifts! :)

I’m going to make up hot chocolate kits for the whole fam! Each one will include homemade hot chocolate, homemade marshmallows, fresh baked cookies and a mug. I’m going to get each person a different style of mug and wrap it up in a basket. I’m very excited!

My entire blog is about making your own gifts! I live for this stuff. I love doing this.

If it helps you to meet this goal, I have pages full of ideas (and photos) and instructions for handmade gifts and recipes for gifts from the kitchen you can make/bake and give.

Can you tell I love to talk about it?

Good luck – it quickly becomes very addictive :-)

Kattitudes: handmade gift ideas

Kat

Maybe not ALL of my gifts but at least one per person.

I gave up. I just didn’t have enough time…but maybe next year!

...or two hours, depending on how you look at it. The are done (except for 5 or so out of towners) before the end of ‘this year.’

Another 16 shirts have been washed, waxed with a pattern slightly off center(crap!), dyed various colors I hadn’t intended(double crap!), washed twice, boiled at least once, and then washed again.

I’ll start a flikr folder sometime in the next few days for anyone who wants to see them.

Some, I must say, are actually really nice. To be passed out tomorrow at my Bruncheon, with Chili! Of Justice!

Next year will be different! I swear! Nothing last minute!

I am actually liking my idea for next years gift, and what makes it even better is that it’s something that the wife and i can do together, over the course of the whole year…

...is this one for my other Brother-In-Law. This is part of the set that was meant to be a deep red. Ah, well. Meant to be a Celtic knot too, but ended up looking a bit, tribal?

And tonight I have waxed about another seven shirts or-so, for the New Year’s Day Bruncheon I’m having for my friends. Still another seven or so to go for waxing, then dye them all various colors, wash them all, then boil them all, and maybe wash again. I may sneak a double color or two in there as well, time permitting…not going as bad as I thought, though I may not finish them all in time…

...I did this Celtic interpretation.

Love the pattern, and it’s a nice wide, easy one, but I still flubbed it up in spots, and not the ‘pretty flub.’

I did this ‘interpretation’ of a kayak and paddle for my brother who very much loves them. He has built several himself and even built some sort of hitch so that he could recumbent bike to the lake with his kayak in tow. I’ve only heard about that and not seen it, but doesn’t that sound like a sight?

He’s a pretty cool guy for all the shit I caught as a kid. He’s also a metal sculptor. He’s build several forges over the years, and now is doing wind sculptures that are around twelve feet tall. No shit. They’re pretty amazing.