A Homemade Christmas

There are several gifts I need each year outside of family so decided to be creative and have them be homemade. It's taken me a while to finish them up and this weekend most of them got completed and are ready to go. Here we go ...

A very crafty friend and I decided to make cupcake-themed aprons and include tubes of sprinkles. Several -okay six! - sets later I am finished. Of course the outside wrapping had to keep in theme so the tag has a felt cupcake too!

The gal who has done my nails for the past 17 years loves anything with a peace sign on it and always wears an apron over her clothes. When I saw this fabric I knew I had to use for her! This one was much more involved so there would not have been six of these!

The school Mark has been working at does a Secret Santa Exchange. There were to be five days of $1 items and a final day (their party) with a $10-15 gift. Here are the items I started with (I substituted the gift tags with a bag of cookies) and how they look now...

The baking dish had the three cookie cutters arranged inside so chose the gingerbread man to use as the theme - love the tag!

She likes quilting so chose a magazine for her ...

The flower CD case you saw in the "group" picture is actually a calendar that stands up on your desk and displays each month. Here it is ...

I found this darling box at Michael's so put some cute sticky note pads inside. I had a stamp with a snowman that went so well so colored it to match the box. When it looked a little plain, added some sparkles for the snowflakes! Love the non-traditional colors...

My least favorite is the cookies (the decoration, not the cookies!) but that's okay...

And the final gift is a gift card to Michael's inside a tin with a gift card insert. The berry leaves are actually 3-D with red rhinestones although it doesn't show up very well ...

Now if he can just get them all to school intact!

I have more things to share but will have to wait until after the holidays as they are going to family members who actually read this blog! Don't want to ruin the surprise ...