Brown kraft paper. It’s pretty much the wrapping paper of choice in my house. It’s cheap. It works for any occasion, and you can dress it up a million ways. This Christmas we’ll be embellishing our gifts with cinnamon ornament gift tags.
Remember those cinnamon ornaments that you made in elementary school? It’s those, only in gift tag form. They smell fantastic, and they’re really easy to make. Here’s the drill.
I’ve never seen a store-bought advent calendar with big enough pockets, so this year I decided to do something about it. Or maybe I should say, I decided to d-i-y something about it. That advent calendar that you see above? It’s made from a shoe organizer. You know, the kind that’s designed to hang on the back of a door?
Turn last year’s Christmas cards into this year’s Christmas garland. Here’s how:
If you’ve been saving Christmas cards for years, but have never really known what to do with them, this is the project for you. Pull out your Christmas card stash, and transform those cards into a festive runner for your table. Here’s how:
Pull those tomato cages back out of the shed; it may not be garden season, but you can put them to work as Christmas decorations.
My husband and I created the six lighted Christmas trees that you see above, using nothing more than tomato cages and some strands of 75%-off lights that we purchased after Christmas last year.
Here’s how to recreate the project for your home:
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