Crafting for Christmas 2009, let's begin again.......

sethsgran

LOL not thought of that, perhaps you could use windsocks from local airport

irishgirl62

hi, I wonder if anyone can help.. I was going to make pencil boxes but I can not open this website to get the funny quote can anyone open it?

http://webcatt.net/humor/pencil.html

wanna-save-more

irishgirl62 wrote: »

hi, I wonder if anyone can help.. I was going to make pencil boxes but I can not open this website to get the funny quote can anyone open it?

http://webcatt.net/humor/pencil.html

Worked for me
xx

wanna-save-more

irishgirl62 i have PM you the contents of the link
HTH
xx

irishgirl62

Thank you wannasave more:j.. strange cos it wouldnt open on my laptop either

bunbun2

irishgirl62 wrote: »

hi, I wonder if anyone can help.. I was going to make pencil boxes but I can not open this website to get the funny quote can anyone open it?

http://webcatt.net/humor/pencil.html

thanks for the link. I saw them last year and thought I would make them this year but had forgotten so thanks for the reminder! have now saved it in my favourites!

Kim_Possible

In Sainsburys I saw Ideal Homes Magazine -2009 Crafting for Christmas special. I flicked throught it and found most of the items had already been mentioned here. Two stood out:
Candle Cupcakes and gardener pots.

Gardening pots
Take a paint tester and a terracotta pot and paint it.
Fill a sandwich bag with compost and place sealed in the painted pot.
Place packs of seeds on top.
Decorate with a ribbon etc.

Candle Cupcakes
They had silicone cupcake cases, wax, liquid for colouring the wax and wicks.
Basically the instructions were to heat the wax to correct temp then add the colouring [fairy cake beige]and pour into 3/4 full silicone bun case, leaving some room for the "icing".
The icing consisted of colouring the wax with a pink colour and pouring on top of the 3/4 full cupcake case.
Add the wick while still runny.

Sorry if this isnt a very good explanation of this, but id tried to google but other instructions are very complicated.
If anyone buys the magazine maybe they could post exact instructions.

irishgirl62

I made these boxes and a huge thank you to wannasavemore for sending me the contents of the link that wouldnt open for me!

mary-op

I couldn't get that link to work either

Did those pencils last year for grandson and my son but wasn't clever enough to make a box................lol:rotfl:

Kim - like the gardening pot idea............wish I'd thought of that earlier.............thanks for that:j

ebaybaby

sethsgran wrote: »

http://computerchristmas.com/christmas/link-how_to/HowToId-14/LowLimit-0 check out these candy canes. I have bought some white pipe tonight for my husband to bend some for me, my pipe is a little thicker so hope it works!. I then plan to mask it in a spiral design and spray it red. I am going to buy 2 sets solar powered fairy lights and wrap 1 set round each cane for me. They will then be secured outside at the side of our steps.

Sethsgran,
Please keep us updated on how you get on with these, would love to try!!