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Day seven of Handmade Christmas Challenge- Gifts for the Home

By on November 21, 2009 in Handmade Christmas Challenge
Get ready for a slew of long overdue challenges.  Today is gifts for the home.
There are a few things in life that are certain, death, taxes and laundry.  Make it more pleasant with the right accesories:

This laundry bag is easy and very pretty.  Here is a really cute laundry pin bag to go with it (you can find clothes pins really inexpensively and you could go as far as painting some clothespins to go with the theme, (these would be very appreciated by someone who is trying to be green by using a solar dryer, you know a clothesline)

For a really cute door decoration for any season (depending on the colors you use) here is a pom-pom door wreath from Whip Up.
This next gift is so customizable and everyone eats so everyone can use some handmade cloth napkins.  Here is one that uses up the fabric scraps leftover from other projects from sew mama sew.
and for the bathroom, a crochet faux toilet paper roll, toilet paper roll cover from Irish Lace.  This gift would be a funny conversation piece.
For the magazine lover,  here is a tutorial on how to make a magazine holder
Here is a cute gift to go with the cloth napkins, a utensil placemat
Hope you got some ideas, now get to work!
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Day six of Handmade Christmas Challenge- Teen girls

By on November 20, 2009 in Handmade Christmas Challenge

I guess if I was posting the more difficult challenges first I probably should have picked this one… teenage girls, oh vey!!

Really there was no shortage to gift ideas it just depends really on what your teenager likes and if they like the same stuff a week from now.  Anyhoo… here’s todays list.

Bottle cap pendants:  My daughter LOVES these and makes them for her friends.  You can find these so inexpensively on Etsy or make them yourself.  Here are some instructions.

Here is a great gift for a teenage girl of any age.  This headband by Heather Bailey looks pretty easy but high  in cute factor
or this reversible headband from The Long Thread


If she is a student or has a laptop to carry, she will probably love this messenger bag, or this one made from denim jeans (recycled of course)

For the fashionista teen in your life (and don’t they all think they are?) here are some crocheted shell lace fingerless gloves.  I will definitely be working on these.
 
and more jewelry… this one is so pretty and so customizable.  Glass tile pendants are super inexpensive but would make a teen girl feel like you really thought of her and what she likes.  For anyone who wants to support an artist instead of being the artist I found this glass tile pendant on Etsy and there are many more artist making others like it.

I think that moms may want to steal this one… a back to the 80’s faux tape cassette Ipod cozy.

or a candy wrapper belt?  The only problem with this project is someone needs to eat the candy (maybe, you could find some volunteers somewhere)

and as long as we are ruining our teeth with all this candy, how about some soda? soda pendants that is.  It seems that alot of this years hot stuff for teens involves recycling or upcycling

and again if you want to support an Etsy artist, here is one and there are so many others.

and to go with the pendant,  here is a soda can cozy.

So there they are, now get to work!!

I will be taking off Saturdays and Sundays during this challenge but tomorrow I will post Fridays night challenge (hey, I do have a life ya know!! as well as a farm to run)

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