Christmas Thank-you's for Kids

This is such a fun way for little kids to thank Grandma's, Grandpa's, Aunt's, Uncle's, Cousins, Friends, or even Mom and Dad for the gifts they received this holiday season.  Simple open up your Microsoft Word program, search in for clipart pictures that are similar the gifts they received, and end it with a signature from your child.  Printing it in gray scale or black gives your child the chance to personalize the letter by coloring it.  It's a great activity to keep the kids busy after the holiday!

Super Easy Toffee

Super Easy Toffee

1-cup butter

1-cup brown sugar

Mix in pot and boil for 6 minutes.  Test in ice water for hard crack stage.  Sprinkle almond chunks onto a lightly greased cookie sheet.  Pour butter and sugar mixture over.  Top with milk chocolate chips or a Hershey bar broken up; once melted spread with a butter knife. 

Christmas Blocks

For you people out there that have a Cricut machine and some handy dandy cartridges this project is for you!  I used the "Lyrical Lyrics" and the "Christmas Village" cartridges, some wood scrap, paint, and vinyl and look what cute Christmas blocks I came up with.  What an easy and quick Christmas project!

Christmas Gifts Neighbor

Here are few Christmas neighbor gifts that I have gathered over the years.   This year we are using the flashlight saying. I just loved the meaning behind the saying.  It truly says how we feel about our friends!

Flashlight--We love how you "light up" our lives. We've come to depend on your "glow". Here's a "flashlight" to store, so you'll always be sure to create "light" wherever you go!

Christmas Ornament--Twinkle, twinkle, sparkled, shine, this ornament comes just in time! Merry Christmas!

Christmas Towel--Sending "clean" and "sparkling" Christmas wishes your way!

Oven mitt--For a "warm" hand of friendship just as you've given me, and the wish for a joyous season with love aplenty under the tree!

Bounty paper towels--This season may the "absorbing" spirit of Christ "blot" out your problems, "soak up" your sorrows, and "wipe" away your difficulties and may the new year bring you "bounteous" blessings all the year through!

Soup mix--We wish you a wonderful holiday "simmering" gently with love!

Fritos Scoops and bean dip--Here is the "scoop" for "bean" so nice. "Dip" into a fun holiday!

Batteries--"Twas this night before Christmas and Santa was worried, he had an emergency. Boy was he flurried! The power was off, and his flashlight was dead. He didn't buy "batteries" when Mrs. Santa said. We don't want you in ta similar plight, so we give you "batteries" to "lighten" your night! Merry Christmas to you. May you walk in the "light"!

Strainer--With the stress and "strain" of the holiday season we wanted to take the time to wish you a Merry Christmas!

Festive Holiday Wreath

I've been wanting to make a new holiday wreath for my front door for a few years now.
This year, I finally did it.
It's hard not to when you walk into Michael's and the wreaths are 50% off and all the picks are 60% off! Score!!

Also, I saw this red burlap at JoAnn's last week and COULD NOT pass it up. I sat there dreaming up projects I could do with it because well, quite frankly, I was NOT leaving the store without it!! :)
{In fact, I bought the rest of the fabric bolt! ha ha}

A holiday wreath turned out to be the perfect thing. . .

LOVE IT!

Now, what to do with the rest of that fancy red burlap?!
I've got a few ideas up my sleeve!  :)

Christmas Shirts

I'm a sucker for cutesie holiday shirts and as long as my kids are still young enough to wear them, they're gonna! :)

I made these fun Christmas shirts for my little kiddies this year. Who doesn't love a good holiday shirt, right?! They were so simple to make and took no time at all!

First we'll start with my Little Lady's ruffle tree shirt.

You'll need a plain white t-shirt and Christmas material. You could use as many different Christmas fabrics as you'd like but I found these two fabrics that went perfect together so I just stuck with two alternating ruffles.

Next I cut a 3" strip of each material for the ruffles. Sew the strips together, then open the seam and iron flat down the center. {see pic below}

Next step, the ruffles. After you've back stitched a few stitches to start on your ruffle piece, stop sewing with the needle still down in the material to hold it secure. Then, lift the presser foot, scrunch the material a little from the sides then put the presser foot back down and sew the scrunched section. Repeat this until your whole strip is ruffled, back stitching at the end.

Next, decide how long you want your tree "branches" on your shirt and cut your ruffle stripes to size--be very careful not to pull too hard on the ruffles once their cut. Then, back tack a few stitches at the ends of each "branch" so your ruffles don't come apart.

Place your finished ruffles on your shirt and pin them in place. When they're nice and secure where you want them, sew the ruffles on the shirt with your sewing machine. And that's it, you're done! Isn't it so cute?

I made a cute ruffle flower clip for my daughters hair with the extra ruffles I had using my trusty glue gun and an alligator clip. So cute!

Now, for the cute Snowman shirts I followed a way easy tutorial on Brassy Apple. I've already had so many comments on these cute shirts and better yet, my boys love their Snowman shirts!

Happy Holiday sewing!!

Flour and Sugar Containers

For the longest time I have been with out flour and sugar containers.  I found some at Ross and decided to add some vinyl to them.

Simple, but cute at the same time!

Summer PJ's into Winter PJ's

 I found a pair of pajama's on the clearance rack for my daughter for $3.25, but they were short sleeved and had a pair of shorts with it.  I decided to convert them into winter pajamas by cutting sleeves out of the shorts material and adding them to the shirt.  It worked great and is keeping my little Allee Bean warm a night!