Goodness me, is it Tuesday already? My apologies for my tardiness kicking off this week, folks. Yesterday saw me sweltering and trying not to melt into a proverbial puddle in our non-air-conditioned (but thankfully well-insulated) shed, while getting *bespoke* Issue 5 underway at the printers (yay!) and catching up on orders (yay!).
AND, of course… I spent a few hours putting together this bumper list of Christmas tutorials for you all – Enjoy!
Handmade Gifts
- Lace pottery bowls (no-bake)
- Home-made heatpack tutorial
- Essential oil air-fresheners
- 25 Handmade Gifts Under $25
- Birdies made from polymer clay
- 13 Christmas stocking ideas
Gift-Wrapping
- Make gift ribbons with up-cycled magazine pages
- What would this list be without a Christmas stocking tutorial?
- Re-usable gift bag
- 4 ways to decorate your packages with yarn
- Crochet star
- Furoshiki gift-wrapping techniques
- White Wedding-inspired gift-wrapping
- Use free paint-chips to decorate your packages
- No-tape Japanese wrapping tutorial
- Use an old shirt as gift-wrap
- Typographic gift-wrap
Gift-Tags
- Sugar cookie name tags
- Take photos of your recipients instead of using tags
- Simple stripy tags
- Tea-bag gift tags
- Cute tags that look like lined notepaper
- Polymer clay tags
Decorations
- Make paper snowflakes and hang on a string
- Wax ornaments (obviously not for an Aussie Christmas!) plus 48 other ideas from Martha Stewart
- Herbal fire-starters (also not for Aussie Christmas, but a lovely addition to your Northern Hemisphere Christmas fire!)
- Rolled fabric flower wreath
- Tinsel Christmas tree
- Christmas wreath cushion cover
- Feather ornaments
- Creative Christmas garlands
- 25 DIY Christmas wreaths
- Felt birds
- DIY magazine Christmas tree
- Yarn ornaments
- 15 Easy DIY Christmas decor ideasÂ
Food
- Chocolate Christmas wreath cake
- Apple, Ginger and Cranberry Vodka Cocktail
- Christmas tree meringues
- Christmas cupcakes with little presents on top
- Chocolate Christmas pudding cupcakes
- Snowmen cake-pops
- Apricot-glazed ham
- Peppermint Christmas tree marshmallows
- Christmas present box macarons
- Florentine Christmas fruitcake
- Whimsical eggnog Christmas cake
- The easiest dessert for Christmas
- White Christmas
- Christmas bark
- Last-Minute Christmas inspiration and recipes
- Christmas wreath cookies
- Christmas Madeleins
- Sweet Christmas bread
And finally, one last link for Advent…
P.S. I’d love it if you’d add any links you know of to the comments!
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Oh my goodess, have you got my creative juices flowing or what! My fingers are just itching to get started on some of these amazing ideas! Thankyou so much for putting them all together and sharing!! x
This is fantastic, thankyou! I have the school holidays filled now! 😀
But the Snowman cake pops link goes to the Apricot Glazed Ham page… 😉
Thanks for featuring my shirt wrapping tutorial! What a fun list this is! Can’t wait to check out more of the projects, just in time for the season of holiday DIY sweatshopping.
Thanks so much for sharing the post I did about DIY lace pottery. Wouldn’t it make a nice hostess gift? I’m thinking of including a bar of scented soap with the ones I make
Cute decor ideas! I’d love to see a DIY gift roundup! 😀
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Thank you so much for these brilliant ideas, my four year old and I had lots of fun making the paper snowflakes (even though it’s not Christmas it is very cold here in the UK at the moment, brrrr)
Thanks for linking to my site and tutorial post about making gift ribbons. I recently did another post on the same subject – http://www.milomade.co.uk/blog/2014/12/make-your-gift-wrapping-unique/