Tag: crafts

“In My Kitchen” November 2018
Along with a bit of kitchen gadgetry, I am sharing a craft that would be perfect for holiday gifts.

Memory Boxes
Keep track of all the joy and happiness that 2016 will surely bring. Make a memory box to keep track of all the new year happenings.

Make Your Own Gift Bags and Go Retro
I become even more retro and vintage at Christmas time. I think as I get older, I enjoy more retro stuff. Er…or maybe it is me that is actually become more vintage. Anyhoo, I found some old forgotten sticker paper in our office/guest room and I went nuts printing vintage images for packages…

Doo rags (and doo-doo rags)
Keeping up a tradition of gifting tidy-whiteys to the nephews, we created some original headgear for them this Christmas.

Felted Dryer Balls
OK—no snickering at the title of this post. It could have been worse. I could have simply titled it “wooly balls.” 🙂 I tried to be proactive all year and keep on the look out for cool homemade gift ideas. During the months of November and December, I would like to share…

Advent Calendar: Making paper bells
This isn’t a Gift from the Kitchen, but we did make it in the kitchen. That counts, right? When the in-laws were here for Thanksgiving, my mother-in-law and I got so bored with the 24/7 football that was blaring in the living room, we found a project. She was wanting to make paper ornaments for…

Some more gift ideas, but not from the kitchen
I took some time out of the kitchen to crank up the sewing machine and finish some other Christmas gifts.