Christmas is one of the best times of year to show off some Do It Yourself Projects. A few new things in our house this year were handmade with love. DIY doesn’t mean perfect, but it means a lot of fun.
One of the things we did this year was make homemade notepads for my teachers. Online, there are a lot of great tutorials for DIY notepads, we didn’t use one in particular.
First, you gather all the paper you want in your pad – we printed out some of my drawings that were scanned. Then, you glue the edges (you don’t have to use a fancy clamp, books worked just fine.)
Then have kinko’s cut them down to the size you want!
I made these for my teacher:
And these with the school logo for other teacher’s and administrators:
We have new stockings this year – using this simple stocking tutorial, mom fashioned stockings out of some of my dad’s old work shirts. You can make anything out of an old dress shirt!
The patches came from this wonderful vendor on Etsy that we met at a craft show recently.
The red and green accent fabrics match the quilt that Grandma is working on – here is what the finished product will look like:
Everybody is DIYing.
Here is an ornament Annabel made out of painted pasta and red pipe cleaner:
Here’s one I made:
Dad didn’t make anything yet, but since he is so amazing, his Secret Santa at work made him something extra special for his office.
Today, Viviana showed us a tutorial on how to make gift bags out of any kind of paper.
So, we made this one out of a watercolor painting I made last week:
We are posting our Christmas cards by the kitchen table so we can look at them during dinner. We used paper chains and painted clothespins.
Finally, here’s Annabel’s homemade dress for Christmas Eve dinner. Fig Tree & Co provided this party dress pattern.
So, we hope we’ve inspired you to make a few things of your own this Christmas!
