Christmas crafts for gifts...

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Are you like me, and get really crafty for the Holidays, and like to make things for people instead of always buying a gift? Well, share some ideas of things that you've made in the past for gifts... or you're currently working on.

In previous years, Heidi and I have painted frames and other wood things as gifts. Last year we painted flower pots (did specific things for people)and put really nice plants in them. This year, we are making christmas stockings, with specific material for different family members, and going to put our Christmas photo in them!!! It's really fun to make specific things for people.

Heidi's mom is in to fly fishing and just wilderness type stuff. So, we've bought wood drawers, frames, etc... and painted mountains, rivers, trees, etc... on them. Maybe added a wood moose or fish on things. It's a lot of fun.

I like to give refrigerator magnets with pictures of the kids to the grandma's. They love them.

This year I am making some fused glass pendants. They have snowflakes acid etched into them. I can't wait to see how they turn out.

Sherry, before you wrap those up, let me know that they are done. I would love to see them.

This year I am doing some scrapbook calendars for the grandma's. I gave them one year and almost got lynched for not giving them last Christmas.

Oh, another good idea is to get a picture and make it into a custom mouse pad. I gave Ron one of the kids last year.

See, I'm so dang sick, that I thought that you were asking what kind of PLANT!!! Gods, I've got to get well. I'm so loopy! I don't know HOW I'm doing my job, and not screwing up numbers and paying the employee's more than they should be getting!!!

We used a terra cota (sp?) paint, for flower pots!! You can get that in a craft store such as Michael's!!!!

Hey mystic... look on the internet for ideas of what to paint your flower pots like. There are some really good ideas out there.

Let's see if I can think of specifics that I did last year!!!

On my brothers, I painting it two different shades of blue, with the darker blue on the rim. Then, on the body, I did really cool writing, with the paintbrush, and did his name, his fiances name and their sons name! It was really cool.

I think that I did a garden pattern on one. Stripes with different patterns on another, and so on. It was a lot of fun. I really like sitting down and painting stuff. I'm not really artistic, but I can do simple things. Heidi can do a lot more creative than I can.