Random: Crafty Gifts?

Thanks to my Pinterest obsession!

Draw on wax paper with permanent markers, wrap around candle and heat until image is transferred.


Donuts and milk


Elmer's glue then paint one color overtop.


There are more...there are always more!!! lol

I could spend all day on the DIY and crafts category on interest!! Love, love, love!!!

Here's another that I plan on making this year. It's a candy/serving dish made out of starlight mints!

All you need is starlight/peppermint candies of your color choice, and parchment paper.

Just line up the candies in whatever pattern and shape of your choosing on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Separate them just a tad, so there's room to melt.

Bake it in an oven preheated to 350 degrees for about 7-10 minutes. Remove and set it on a wire baking rack to cool for a few minutes.

I am totally stealing this!!!! Thank you all for some great ideas!

My boyfriend and I make some really easy chocolate fudge and load it with nuts, or peanut butter, or pretzels, or...other kinds of chocolate and then hit up the dollar store for some cool boxes and tins to put it in. Saves us more money than switching to Geico on Christmas gifts for his extended family.

This year, I'm thinking I'm gonna make chocolate-nut and chocolate-mint bark or gourmet popcorn for his sister and his dad.

Oh! And I make cookie cups with my muffin tin. They make pretty good gifts too, especially to people with kids.

I do crafty gifts for my co-workers. And I usually make and extra one or two to take to white elephant parties. For some reason, I usually pick something that also requires me to learn a skill. Not intentionally, it just works out that way.

I've done:

*cookies in a jar using my favorite cookie mix-ins -- dried blueberries and white chocolate. It was a different flavor than the norm.
*brownies in a jar
*soup mix in a jar -- although those don't look as pretty because the contents settle.
*corn bags - the best site for that I've seen is off line now, but the link to it at the internet archive is below. It covers a lot of do's and don'ts and has good step by step.
*this year I canned homemade pasta sauce using (mostly) my own tomatoes. Was more work than I thought so I didn't make as many gifts as normal

http://web.archive.org/web/20101029073331/http://diamondthreadworks.com/microwave_heating_bags.htm

I do a lot of different things with cheap picture frames. Dazzle them up with scrapbook paper, glitter, and pretty much anything and then if it's for a friend I find a good photo of us that we have together and stick that in there or if they have kids, I go to Walgreens and do a photo collage of the kiddos and stick that in there. It's a good gift for Christmas, birthdays, housewarming,, etc.

Last year for Christmas I was really poor because I just started a new job in October, but didn't start paying until January so I took some less then a $1 picture frames I got at Walmart, used leftover scrapbook paper in my craft drawer and cut it down to size. Put it in the frame, added a small piece of velcro to the frame and to a dry erase marker and wrote Merry Christmas, Love Kristi on it. Everyone LOVED them! Maybe cost me $2 to make if that.

I hand make cards every year. Like the kind that cost $10 at the card store.

Never once has anybody said "wow, what a beautiful card" (I even stamp the back of the cards with a personalized stamp that says: Handmade by:_____)

I have also made baby blankets, bracelets, jewelry, and other food items, but people never seem to appreciate them.

Sometimes I think i should stop and just hand them a gift card.

I love giving crafty gifts - I mainly do handmade jewellery and accesories. Like Necklaces, earrings, bracelets, bookmarks, suncatchers, etc.

I have a facebook page - Taurus Jewels