HOW TO – Bead Tree Holiday Decorations
Seattle’s Fusion Beads has some great online tutorials – I really like these little bead tree decorations.
Holiday Projects
Driodel, Droidel, Droidel
Our pal Bonnie Burton has a piece on StarWars.com on how to “Make Your Own Droidel Dreidel,” a paper-crafted dreidel that looks like R2-D2. I wonder how you say “Happy Chanukah” in Droidspeak? Droidel, Droidel, Droidel
Place Card Pockets
Here’s a simple place-setting solution for upcoming holiday meals – make a place card pocket from this print-at-home free PDF from BlueArgyle. When you fold it up, you can hide a small surprise for your guests inside. After the holidays are over, I’m sure this would be great for large dinner parties of any celebratory […]
HOW TO – Paper Pieced Hexagon Flower Ornament
Lovestitches has a tutorial up for making these sweet soft paper pieced hexagon flower ornaments. I’m thinking they are cute enough to have up year-round.
HOW TO – Glittery Word Decorations
One Pretty Thing tips us off to Bienvenue’s tutorial showing us how to create these shimmery word decorations from foamcore, glue, and glitter.
Turkey Window Display
Jenelle from Sew Occupied made this enormous turkey softie and oven for a window display contest. She won 2nd place.
Converting holiday lights to LED
William sent in this page detailing how to replace the bulbs of Christmas light strings with LEDs – I begin by cutting the light sockets off the string about three inches from the socket and I store them in a box. There is usually a wire that goes from one end of the string to […]
