All the homemade Christmas people over here please, lets share our ideas :) - SECOND EDITION :)

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OLD THREAD

We were all on about pinterest, jars, and where we are up to in our christmas planning :)

Lets go...

Calling addicted - how did your craft fair go? (and can I be nosey and ask what kind of prices you charged for your felt hearts?) :o

I've pulled out of the face-painting side of my craft fair, so really need to get my prices right with the crafts I'll be selling;
pompom father christmasses (with wooden balls for heads so need to cover costs)
pompom angels (also wooden heads)
pompom snowmen
felt snowmen
felt hearts
felt christmas trees
cotton crayon rolls (with 16 crayons)
'winter warmers'
possibly also going to add children's aprons into the mix? (if I can get any done in time!)

Any ideas for prices please.

Also, do you think the 'cookies in a jar' thing would sell? (or would you only like them if you knew the person who'd lovingly squished them together for you?) :o

just bought the Prima Christmas mag if you're interested to know what's in it. Lovely toy mouses, or should I say meeces! I'm feeling very behind the times compared to everyone here...I do have plans for a felt gingerbread house though...

Flubba, your wares sound tempting!

Thanks addicted - am definitely thinking about doing the Pringles tubes. I can still make the biscuits the right size.

Just checked the recipe again and it says that you can freeze the dough, then defrost and cut, or freeze the cut raw biscuits and cook them straight from the freezer. It doesn't give specific instructions for this, but the raw dough cooks in 10-15 mins, so I guess a frozen raw biscuit would need nearer 20?

I would reproduce the recipe but it's the current edition so that feels a bit unethical. You could nip into WHSmith and look it up!

My craft fayre is on Saturday. I'm planning on charging around £1.50 for the Christmas tree decorations, I'd only make a small profit but if I sell everything its around a £50 profit all together, not mega bucks but nice pocket money! (enough for dds birthday party!)

Whats the cookies in a jar?

Treats is that the olive mag. Christmas edition?

Just made my first button christmas tree - it looks so sweet !

Meant to put that I'm planning to make some apple, blackberry & cinnamon chutney off the Baking Made Easy programme. Anyone tried making it? Sounds lovely, and as I have been given a load of apples and onions by my mum and have a freezer full of blackberries from the local hedgerows, it will effectively be Free Chutney !!

Got any pictures zeeky?

I trialled a shortbread recipe off Lorraine Pascale's cookery programme, it's a plain shortbread but I added white, plain & milk chocolate chips. They really were scrumtious, made a double batch but sadly had to send some in for harvest festival !

Finished my stockings. Here are some pics:

stockings

Couldn't see your pics littlechief but I'm not a member of picasa (do you need to be?)

Hmmm, I will check this out. Thanks for the heads up Flubba

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Any good photo?

Yay! Yes, very sweet stockings!! :)

Thanks - they were really easy to knit and the needle felting was great fun.

Cute stockings

My Mincemeat was a disaster! I forgot about it and nearly cremated my slowcooker

I have been side tracked this week making hair clips for my niece's birthday, so hope to get my Christmas on next week

Hi all, just catching up.

I made the salted peanut caramel shortbread last weekend. It was to die for. Very gooey, though - not sure about making it in advance. I might just make some and have it 'hanging around' at Christmas like I'm some kind of domestic goddess.

Mmmmmm - salted caramel. There is no way I could make that for gifts - I would be completely unable to give it away.

OK - so 10 days ago I gave myself the week to make 5 Xmas decorations and I haven't BUT I have given my Xmas vodka a stir and have cut out 30+ heart shapes in various sizes and fabrics (felt, gingham, hessian etc...) I have also made my first pine cone pom-pom decoration and it looks really sweet (sorry no pics but it looks just like the one you may have seen on Pinterest) and I have lots of tissue all ready and waiting for making those overblown pom-poms a la Martha Stewart (but they are just for fun and I am making some of those in Orange for Halloween).

Is anyone else starting to panic irrationally? I have to keep reminding myself that it is STILL only October. I cannot get into baking biscuits and sweet things yet because I would just eat them and they won't keep so I am going to leave them till later (early Dec?) - but perhaps I should have a practise run??

Still resistant to making a scrub even though the only things I am missing are the essential oil - has anyone had any real success with these - am afraid of ending up with a sad-looking oily sludge in a jar with a ribbon on! Bath bombs - am nearly there with all the ingredients just need the essential oil and the little spray bottles with which to "spritz" the mixture.

After seeing zeeky's sweet little felt stockings and browsing lots of fabric/craft sites in search of mini-felt pom poms, I feel myself getting sucked into the felting world - Nooooo I have enough to do (she says eyeing up a merino wool jumper that I shrunk many months ago!)

Anyway, ramble over

I've succumbed to the felting world cart - I followed advice earlier in the thread and ordered a tenner's worth of felt squares from the Felt Fairy on Ebay and some lovely and very thick wool felt with matching pompom and string from Blooming Felt to make a funky purse for my teenage niece. I've spent way too long on Pintrest looking at felt food and am already planning to make some little felt cakes for my toddler's stocking and felt food for various little relatives' birthdays next year. I think I have gone over properly to the mad side now....

Yes to irrational panic - on the page it looks like I have weeks and weeks of crafting ahead of me to get it all done but in reality by the time my toddler has emptied my sewing basket on the floor, eaten the pins, demanded my company on the sofa AT ONCE for a Bobthebuilderfest and insisted on sitting on my lap at the sewing machine I think I am actually managing to do oh I don't know - 20 minutes a day. I look at what other people on this thread have got done in awe

cartblanche have you been taking a sneaky peak at my sorry attempt at a scrub then? You've described it perfectly :o

Yes to panic too - although less irrational because I'm holding a craft stall in three weeks' time, so really need to get cracking. theancientmarinator my 4yo, 3yo and 8mo are also Very Good at Helping mummy with the sewing machine.

I have at least now made two aprons for my nieces, and have developed my own little pom pom snowmen and angels. Am toying with buying yet more wooden balls for the heads...

Dd likes to 'help' too, but my pin cushion is a teddybear so she likes to cuddle it, and then can't work out why its hurting her!

Most of the stuff I've made has been sit on the sofa stuff or quick zip on the sewing machiene stuff so its not been too bad with dd.

Getting really nervous about tomorrow now. What if no one likes my stuff?
Still need to finish 2 stockings and 1 heart then buy a table cloth and I'm done!

"what if no one likes my stuff?" is my fear too addicted - in that case we'll be giving a lot of christmas decoration things to our friends and family this year!! :o

How big is your table? How much stuff have you got to sell? Will be thinking of you tomorrow - wishing you lots of fun and luck! :)