handmade gifts for christmas and celebrations 2011

qwiksave

Think its after about 20 posts jess1011, just a few more to go!

I haven't been on here for a while, thought I'd show those of you that don't follow my blog, my latest make:


It's a jar of jumbo chocolate buttons with smiles drawn on with an icing sugar tube:

The lid and label:

I just made it for my family but it could also be a potential gift.

YUM!

julie03

qwiksave wrote: »

Think its after about 20 posts jess1011, just a few more to go!

I haven't been on here for a while, thought I'd show those of you that don't follow my blog, my latest make:


It's a jar of jumbo chocolate buttons with smiles drawn on with an icing sugar tube:

The lid and label:

I just made it for my family but it could also be a potential gift.

YUM!

i love these, would make a great gift
thanks for the idea

mary-op

Super makes all of you.

qwiksave -love the jar of smiles..........how do you do the faces with icing ? Does it need to be done with an icing bag or is there an easier way ?

qwiksave

mary-op wrote: »

Super makes all of you.

qwiksave -love the jar of smiles..........how do you do the faces with icing ? Does it need to be done with an icing bag or is there an easier way ?

Yes, there is an easier way! Buy one of those ready made icing tubes, thats what I did! (I also used a cocktail stick to get it to come off the tube and for corrections).

Claire_Bear

Hello all! :wave: I've come to join you all and start getting some ideas and inspiration for Christmas this year. I found out recently that I'm pregnant and due in December so will be shorter of cash than usual but also pretty sure I won't want to leave everyone's presents til the last minute so if I get started now I'll hopefully save myself some stress I've done homemade pressies in the past and they've gone down quite well, bags of gold have become something of a tradition now so will do them again this year.

So far my list is:

Sock monkey and some gaming Hama Bead decorations for OH's DS. Plus I always do him a mini sweetie hamper/bag with sour candies and things in.
Turkish Delight for OH and his parents as they both love it.
Crunchy minty winter's bark for my parents
Maybe a small food hamper for my mam and dad with some chese straws and chutney or something in, I bought a book a while ago called 'gifts from the kitchen' and my mam saw it and said she loves stuff like that. Homemade biscuits always go down well too!

I also want to do a homemade advent calender this year too, I've been saying this for the past couple of years and never got round to it, but I think the idea of having it right from baby's first Christmas will push me to do it I love the ones that are like a ribbon with 24 little pockets hanging from it, like these

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Am going to spend the afternoon reading back through all the old posts and updating my favourites folder no doubt!

LolaLemon

Heya guys, I'm still here, not really made much due to illness, uni deadlines, uni exams, my friend (25) and her 18 month old died in a horrible car crash, her daughter survived and got out of hospital the day before her 3rd birthday. My heads been completely messed up since Feb when I took unwell. I intend to get in the swing of things once I've sorted the house out.
Loving all the great makes (& ideas to 'steal')
Catch u all soon

slm6002

for those of you who know about body scrubs would i be able to make a peppermint version using peppermint essence, sugar and oil? My OH wants some but would turn his nose up at girly smelling ones

slm6002

lolalemon, sorry you are having such a trying time at the moment.

she_grinch

qwiksave wrote: »

Think its after about 20 posts jess1011, just a few more to go!

I haven't been on here for a while, thought I'd show those of you that don't follow my blog, my latest make:


It's a jar of jumbo chocolate buttons with smiles drawn on with an icing sugar tube:

The lid and label:

I just made it for my family but it could also be a potential gift.

YUM!

I made these by piping white chocolate onto those giant chocolate buttons you can get, I took them into a customer service training session and said " Would you like a smile, it is free and it costs me nothing to give it away" and suddenly everyone in the room was smiling.

midnightraven3

slm6002 wrote: »

for those of you who know about body scrubs would i be able to make a peppermint version using peppermint essence, sugar and oil? My OH wants some but would turn his nose up at girly smelling ones

yes you can, would work just the same as the other "smells":D