Category: Crafts

I thought I'd show off a few of the crafts we made at our church's Advent Workshop. They're cute and easy. It's a family event and the activities were designed so a wide age group could participate. Isn't she adorabe? The gave us the wooden shape with the holes drilled in the top for the candy canes. I painted on the face with a Sharpie paint marker. They did have google eyes and a cute little red pom-pom nose to glue on instead, but I like the way she turned out. There were several choices of ribbon and I just made a little bow and hot-glued it on. It was actually supposed to be between the antlers, which would have been a little less girly, but I think she's cute. This is one of those cinnamon-scented pine cones. They organizer hot-glued a ribbon loop on top and then we painted the tips to look like they had snow on them. After that dried, we added...

  I love crafts. I admit it. I'm not overly talented, but I've gotten pretty good at cutting and pasting, and I can paint a little. And Christmas tends to bring out my craftiness. Usually it's because I like making my own decorations instead of buying overprices things I can put together myself for less. I finished my first project of the season a couple of days ago. This project is based on a cute Christmas Button Tree I found on Pinterest. My pin Original Pin Blog post at Red Heads Craft more Fun This is not one I get to keep, I'm giving it away as a gift, but I love how it turned out. The photo doesn't do it justice, but it did turn out just like I pictured it in my head. I got all the supplies at a craft store. The buttons came in a little plastic container filled with a variety of cream colored buttons, the felt in back is adhesive and...