Old style Preparations for Christmas 2011!!

madvixen

What a lovely present.
Leather can be quite hard to sew by hand. What about making a chipboard cover (available from your nearest craft shop very cheaply) and covering it with the leather using a glue and then gluing the pockets on?
Sorry if this is completely not what you were after.

FairyPrincessk

Thats a great idea Madvixen. I was thinking leather would be difficult to sew. It sounds like I'm going to be organizing a covert trip to my craft shop shortly. I've got most of the things already stashed away in my craft drawer/under the bed/under the sofa...anywhere else I can find..so hopefully this won't cost too much.

Broomstick

:rotfl: Basketcase.

katieowl wrote: »

Sticky out bit = appears to be scales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conifer_cone)

Well that's my new thing learned today. Thank you.

B x

trifles

If you wanted a leather cover particularly,old leather jackets can often be very cheap in charity shops or handbags.Both could be cut up with a craft knife or stanley knife and glued to fit a book cover. You could use any left over leather for a bookmark or a coaster.Or an old pair of denims could make a cloth cover with the pocket sewn on the front to hold a pen:)

PixieDust

does it have to be real leather.....E-b@y sell faux leather at very reasonable prices In fact, it may be wirth looking on there for real leather

basketcase

Coming to this late BUT...

One of my guilty pleasures (as just stated on the Christmas TV thread ) is Kirstie's Handmade 'whatever'

She's doing 2 for Christmas and last night she did exactly this! (If you missed it I think it's repeated on Saturday). So, if it isn't too late, why don't you have a look-see. Or I think you can watch it via the wonders of t'Internet

debbiedeejay

Having found this thread only very recently - there are some fab ideas on here so am definately going to put some of them into action for OS Christmas 2011 & next, thank you all

One thing I remember from the 1970's was that my Dad made a table centrepiece of one year a little Christmas house (cardboard basic shape,red crepe round sides,cotton wool roof)and a snow man the next year(carboard thick tube and more cottonwool) but the best bit was that inside was an extra "table"gift the three of us(Mum,Dad and me) The roof came off the house and the snowmans hat lifted off.They were only little things like puzzles or pens. These were used for about 10 years I think before I "grew up"

Dad's 84 now but we still go round to his for Christmas day and he still insists cooking (yes I have said I would do it and even help out ,but he refuses,but we do clear up)so I might remake one as a present -am sure he would love it and my kids would too even though they are teens!:)