Bad economy! make your gifts!

December 26, 2008 ironbridejennifer1

It’s the holiday season and the economy is terrible, meaning money is tight!  Why don’t you make  your own gifts? Here are some ideas;

For the parents you can make a date in a bag which includes a five dollar movie or five dollars for them to order a movie off comcast, spaghetti and spaghetti sauce, snacks for during the movie, and a good ole bottle of Boone’s Farm! Typically around four dollars, and WAAA LAHHH!

For the little girls you can make paper dolls

 Items to be used

Hot glue gun

Wood glue

Twigs

Cardboard

Wood if you’re crafty

Inexpensive doll furniture

Air dry or oven-bake clay (optional)

A board or something flat and stiff to build your house on

 

1. Plan out your fairy house. Observe and adapt ideas from woodland cottages. Fairy houses can be round and short, or skinny and tall- such as a tower.
2. Draw a realistic blueprint on a piece of paper of the main structure of your fairy house. Remember, it needs to be physically possible to construct this. However, decorations to your fairy house can be improvised.
3. Find a base structure such as milk carton or a birdhouse. You can also build one with cardboard or wood.
4. Gather your materials from the woods or your garden. They need to be dried natural materials because hot glue won’t stick to damp or green woods.
5. Build your house; you can use cardboard, wood, or other materials. Glue them together using a hot glue gun or perhaps wood glue. It may be too costly or time-consuming to make your whole house out of clay, but oven-bake clay is great for turrets or windows. They come in many useful colors. You can add towers by using paper towel tubes, toothpaste boxes, or whatever else your imagination thinks up. Assemble your house on top of some sort of move-able platform.
6. Adorn the house with your findings. Once you have made your structure, you can decorate it with doors, vines, etc. Rustic and natural features will seem more realistic. Pebbles can be used in walkways or used to make a stone house. Birch tree bark has a beautiful look and you can use both sides. Don’t forget to include landscaping!

1. Create an inside world for the fairies also. If you cut out the back of it, you can wallpaper the inside with natural materials, leather or natural paper. Either you can buy some inexpensive doll furniture or you can make your own out of twigs or clay:
2. Gather some dry twigs, both skinny and thick, from your backyard. Cut a couple pices to the right dimensions for a table (about 4 inches long and 1 and 1/2 inches wide) and glue them together, forming a picture frame effect. When this has dried, lay twigs across the top and glue them to the frame. Now rest some table legs upward, on the underside of the table, and glue them carefully, so the table can stand on its own.

• Clay furniture is much easier to make but does not look as rustic. There are no real directions, just carefully mold some air-dry or oven-bake clay into furniture.

For the little guys you can make a pirtaes chest including, treasure map(don’t forget to soak it in tea, and burn the edges to get that old fashioned look), gold coins, eye patch(you can make out of felt and yarn), bandana, fake parrot, and snacks for your little pirate.

Also you can make board games!

For siblings, my little brother made me a beautiful braclet!

The elders, my mommie and I made homemade choclates, like peppermint bark, white trash, date balls, lollipops in the shape of farm animals, choclates filled with caramel, and coconut bon bons.

For your significant other there are so many cheesey things to make like, a pill bottle filled with love perscritions, scrapbook, an I love you book, write a poem, make a collage of your favorit memories.

For the women, make an at home spa night for her, first make up a gift card saying good for one spa night at home, draw her a bubble bath with some candles and wine, make a nice dinner, fiver her a half hour massage, giver her a little scalp massage, and buy her little gifts for her spa day, facial mask, nail polish ect, or give her money and have her pick them out!

Hope this helps!

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