Holiday crafts

sarahtrg

What's the biggest holiday craft you ladies are taking on this season? 

Ilumine

I am our MOPS group Creative Activities Coordinator. 

So for Thanksgiving, we are doing the Martha Stewart Pin-Up Wreath.  We will hand out thanksgiving themed ribbon and leaves made out of card-stock for the family to write down what they are thankful for that week.  

http://www.marthastewart.com/273148/pinup-wreath

Then for Christmas, we are going to make our own cardstock boxes for our cookie exchange.

For personal crafting, this year is a Candy Cane/Peppermint Christmas.   DD makes our Christmas Card every year, so she will be doing a finger-print candy canes.   http://leapfrogandladybugs.blogspot.com/2011/12/candy-cane-craft-how-to.html

RIght now I am in the middle of making my table top Peppermint Christmas Tree for our mantle. But I am not sure which one I want to do:

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/26458716533869372/

or 

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/26458716533569290/

But I will be working on those two crafts this week

Menrandes

Nothing terribly big I think.  A bunch of scarves, like 12 I think, for various people.  A couple of pairs of socks.

I also have to figure out some kind of snowman craft for my parents this year.  I've done one every year for about 5 now, so it's sort of tradition.

I also hope to finish on an afghan for the living room so I can say "Merry Christmas to me!" but that's not a priority.

sarahtrg

These are good ideas!  And I like the second peppermint tree! 

ChristyDM82

Hi, I'm trying to be more active on this board. I'm otherwise mostly just on the Book Club and What's Cooking boards.

I just made a felt wreath for Halloween (I posted it above). I don't have anything else planned for the fall.

For Christmas, I'm making a scrabble frame for my friend. She and her husband both have a love for scrabble.

I'm making these mirror ornaments for one of my trees.

I'll probably make a few of these candy holders, some braided fleece dog rope toys and some felt ornaments. 

I also might try a batch of cinnamon ornaments. 

And now I realize I need to get a move on some of these!

TarponMonoxide

I usually make ornaments out of the wooden bits that are sawed from the bottom of the live trees that are sold.

It's easy to do --- I usually look at the wood and see what I "see" in the pattern of the wood. I paint the wood accordingly --- I use acrylic paint or watercolors.

I add an eyehook at the top and then I loop ribbon through it.

I'd attach a photo of one of them but the pic isn't uploading.:(

consciousdear88

I started doing cross stitch a few years ago when my niece was born. I got back into it earlier this year after we moved. I had stumbled onto a pattern on etsy with test tubes and beakers on it. I decided to make ornaments for my coworkers (since I work in a laboratory) and stitch the test tubes on them. Not a big project but very time consuming since there are seven people altogether, I started a second job on the weekends and the fact that I can't do what I've normally been doing (working on it on my lunch breaks at work)