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DIY Cute Tabletop Christmas Trees. These cute tabletop Christmas trees are done by Lolly Chessie and on the Crate Paper blog she’s showed how to make them by yourselves.

DIY Cute Tabletop Christmas Trees

They are made of paper mache tree shapes covered with different crate paper pieces. Even though they aren’t hard to make the whole process will take a lot of time. Materials 2 paper mache tree shapesCrate Paper – “Snow Day” collection (two of each for both trees): Melt, Sparkle, Blizzard, Festive, Mittens, Flakes, CandyHot glue gun and 2 large glue sticksPetal pattern templateGreen acrylic paint and foam brush Instructions Cut petal using using traced petal template.Paint the bottom of your tree shapes with the green paint.Wrap each shape around a round pen to curl the edges and glue it to the tree shape starting from the bottom.When you get to the tip of the tree, wrap a little piece of felt or fabric and glue it to the top and snip it off to get a nice finished topper.

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50 DIY Felt Christmas Tree Ornaments

They are also useful to adorn other things like branches, mantels, lamps and so on. If you like ball ornaments more check out these awesome DIY glass Christmas tree ornaments. All other ornaments could be found on BHG (1, 2). share DIY Felt Snowflakes DIY Felt Holiday Ornaments DIY Felt Mistletoe Ornament DIY Owl Christmas Ornaments DIY Felted Wool Star Ornaments. DIY Detective or Spy Kit for Kids. I think I’ve mentioned before that my girls are into detectives, spies, secret codes, and all things mysterious (not scary!).

DIY Detective or Spy Kit for Kids

They are reading Nancy Drew Notebooks, Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, Encyclopedia Brown, Jigsaw Jones, and Cam Jansen book series like crazy! I’ve been gathering ideas for detective/spy kits for quite a while, so we decided to make them for Christmas gifts this year. I think the girls are going to love their detective kits! I finally had a few daylight hours without the girls so I could take some photos – this secret gift-making and blogging is hard to do when the girls and I are home together every day! Here is a peek at what’s inside: Each super-sleuthing detective kit contains: • Rearview Mirror Spy Glasses – I found these at Cost Plus World Market. Has them as well. • Invisible Ink Pen (with black light in the lid) – I also found a two-pack of these pens at Cost Plus World Market. • Disguise – less than a dollar each at a local party store.

Digital Scrapbooking, Scrapbook Templates, Digital Brushes - Happy To Create. Embellished Hooded Towel Tutorial. Picnic Easter Baskets. I was at Target the other day… childless! It was awesome! I actually had a minute to browse without yelling various threats at my son. I think I even caught myself skipping now and again. So this is what I came home with… Kitchen towels, melamine salad plates, a pack of 4 cloth napkins and placemats… that all match! And this is what I made with all of it… Last year for Easter instead of getting regular baskets for easter I bought my girls baskets to go on their bikes.

At the time I had high hopes of making cute basket liners but ran out of time. So this year, after my Target treasure hunt, they became not only fabulous bike baskets, but picnic baskets as well! I can't wait until easter! I'm so excited to strap these onto their bikes! I turned the placemats I found into picnic caddy's. They are a piece of cake to make! Press your placemat, then fold one end up… you can pick how high you'd like to go. Now I can't leave it as is… I had to add a little eyelet trim (I adore eyelet). I'm using a...