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Are you ready for Christmas?

All my adult life, I worked on holidays. That is just what you do when you are a nurse. It never bothered me because I just don’t get holidays. Who decided that a specific day should be a holiday anyway? Christmas is one holiday that I stopped participating in long ago. When it became all about gifts and money and outdoing the neighbors with decorations, I said enough. So I always volunteered to work Christmas so others with small children could be home with them.

Since retiring, I find that I am more understanding of the need for holidays, but I still choose not to participate in them. This year, and every year, my sole hat tip to Christmas has been to send cards that are handmade by me. I enjoy the process and love to send them to my friends and family. Sending cards at Christmas gives me joy, even though it is a lot of work, it is well worth it. This year is no exception. I finally found a video on YouTube that described a new type of card. So I took my inspiration from Ellen Crimi-Trent’s video and went all out. I made a total of 13 cards using metallic watercolor on black paper. I have to say they were beautiful and so different. I forgot to take pictures of them, so I can’t show them here. I’m sorry.

Since it was such fun, I have decided to make a card-a-day to prepare for next year. I found another video that gave me ideas, so I am currently making several cards alike. Below is a picture of the two I have completed and the beginnings of several others. I do plan to stick to a card-a-day, but since the background has to dry naturally, I made those up ahead of time.

What are you doing to get ready for Christmas this year? Are you doing anything special? Do you send Christmas cards out still? I’d love to hear what you have to say on this subject so please leave me a comment here.

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Homemade Christmas Cards Anyone?

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Every year, I try to make my own Christmas cards. I have managed to get them done and in the mail the last 3 years. I usually paint my cards, but I could just as easily collage, or craft some. I try to find unusual cards to make, so I scour YouTube for videos about making yours own Christmas cards starting mid-October. This year, I have really had a hard time because I don’t want to make a card with lights, or ornaments, or trees, or wreaths on it and that seems to be the videos I am finding. That said, I finally decided to see how I could make those same type of cards but with a different spin. That was an interesting search for me on YouTube. I started by searching painting videos, card making videos (just not Christmas ones) or some combination thereof.

I was about to give up and go with the usual cards, when I found this video and I knew in a second that this was the card for me to make this year.

Yes, I know that it is a tree and it is pine boughs, but the use of metallic paint really makes it different, don’t you agree? So this week I will be busy making cards to get in the mail as soon as possible. It is a little late, since my search took me so long, but I think they will still get there in time. What do you think?

Do you make your own Christmas cards or do you buy some? I know some people have even stopped sending cards anymore and I think that is a shame. Getting a Christmas card from friends far away is a perfect time to catch up on their family news that may not have been posted all over social media. Anyway, these are the cards I will be making to send out this year. I am so happy I finally found something different.

Thank you for being here with me. I know that time is a premium item right now so I really appreciate yours. If this post interested you, you could go to my FB page, and see other similar posts. If you go there, please like that page and leave me a comment so I know you were there. Please leave me a comment here to tell me what your thoughts are on sending Christmas cards, too.

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Another Kid-Friendly Christmas Craft

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I was scrolling through YouTube yesterday and saw this really cute Christmas craft that is easy, cheap and turns out really nice. It looked to me like the hands belong to a young child, so I assume children can do this with supervision. I really liked the finished product with the glitter on it. I can see it on the tree twinkling with the lights.

Anyway, without any further ado, here is the video. Let me know if you try this and show me pictures, please. I think I may be trying my hand at this on the weekend. The only drawback I could see was that it is time intensive, in that you have to let them dry completely between stages and that could take a while.

I hope you try this with your family. It really looks like a fun family craft to me! Also, please leave me a comment here to let me know that you visited. I really appreciate you spending some of your precious time here with me. Thanks for reading!

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Another neat Christmas craft for Mom’s of small children

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I was scrolling through my Instagram feed yesterday and I spied a really cute idea for a Christmas craft (but I forgot to bookmark it and can’t find it now). It is perfect for this time of year, but I can see it being used anytime during the year as decorations.

Basically, we all know that when you have children in school, they love to bring you their art they made. You of course put it up on the refrigerator because you are so proud of your baby. However, it quickly gets covered over with other important stuff and then it gets lost. Well, what if you too, that beautiful art and made a decoration from it? That was the premise for the Instagram story/post.

She cut stars out of the art and folded the stars to be somewhat 3-D, then she placed the cut out stars back to back and glued the edges after inserting a string for hanging. What you end up with is a beautiful 3-D star made from your child’s art to hang on the tree or on the garland around the house. Think how proud your baby will be when their work is hanging on the tree!

All you have to do is find a template for your star and then cut out both sides from the same piece of art.

Here’s a tutorial I found for both cutting out the stars and gluing them together. The only thing different is you are using your child’s art to make them. I think this is a really neat way to showcase your child’s artwork and show your child just how much you like their work. We all know how important it is to build esteem in our children and this is one way to do just that.

As you can see below, I have made these stars before myself and they are really simple and easy to make. I just made mine into a wreath and painted my stars. I hope you try this craft out and enjoy the process. If you make some, please send me pictures and leave me a comment about the process.

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Still feeling crafty? Here’ s a round-up of cool Christmas crafts

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There is something about this time of year that makes me want to do fun crafts–maybe it’s the time change, or the change in the weather, or just the holidays all lined up at the end of the year. Whatever it is, I have been in the crafting mood lately and I wondered if you also might be feeling the urge to craft?

If so, then you are going to love this post. I have a round-up of cool crafts for you to try. So let’s jump in:

If you have toddlers at home, here are a few crafts you can do with them and they can ACTUALLY do these crafts quite easily. I know when mine were little it was a challenge to find fun crafting activities geared to their little hands and coordination. So, try some of the crafts found here: https://www.lifewithmylittles.com/toddler-christmas-crafts/— I really like the photo tree here.
If you don’t have toddlers, but still have young children at home, here are a list of fun crafts that you can turn into fun family activities:
https://crazylittleprojects.com/simple-christmas-crafts/— since this blogger is a mom to 4 boys, I think she may know what she is talking about. I especially loved the String Christmas Trees; I thought they were really pretty and would look lovely as part of your Christmas décor.
If crafting with children isn’t your thing, here are several crafts for adults to enjoy: https://www.prudentpennypincher.com/christmas-crafts-for-adults/ . In this group of crafts, I really loved the framed wreath ornament.
Last year, I discovered how to make Christmas star yard decorations using plastic hangers and this one was a really good tutorial for me: https://thefrugalgirls.com/2021/11/diy-plastic-hanger-star-with-lights.html . Try it out and let me know how yours turned out. Mine was really beautiful and I hung it on the door.
Here is a Pinterest board that shows you that you can configure
these hangers in many ways to get different looks: https://www.pinterest.com/sherron/plastic-hanger-crafts/ . I may try my hand at another one this year and I’ll pick a different look this time.
This is video that shows you how to use these hangers to make an angel: https://youtu.be/lvl6B8Vtq4I . I may try this at another time because it looks really big to me and I am not sure where I could put it up, but if that isn’t an issue for you, you may want to try it.
And finally, here is another video that shows you how to make another type of angel using Deco Mesh: https://youtu.be/_GkhiAGhvvw . I think they are precious and will definitely be trying my hand at these!

So if you try any of these, please send me a picture of how they turned out and I will post a follow-up here with all of your results. Don’t forget to leave me a comment below and visit my FB page to see more art and crafting posts. If you go there, please like my page and leave me a comment to say “Hi!”. Thank you for being here and enjoy the crafting time!

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Are you crafty?

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On my Facebook page, I have just posted a really fun craft that is suitable for the whole family to work on together. I have done this craft myself before and am planning to make more soon to add to the festive décor for the upcoming holidays. I am always looking for fun and CHEAP crafts to do, so if you have any suggestions, please let me know.

I think it is never too early to start making Christmas cards and getting the entire family in the process is even more fun! Try out some of these videos to see if you can find the cards that are just perfect for your family to send this year. We all know that homemade cards are the best and mean the most, so let’s start crafting!

or this one:

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