Please come show off your poncetastically homemade Christmas gifts and decorations. And/or your child's Xmas crafty efforts

[HelenMumsnet]

Hello.

Have you been doing any poncetastic prep for Christmas?

Do please post up some pics of your homemade decorations and/or homemade gifts for us all to gawp at.

Or, if your child has brought home (or made at home) any brilliant/endearingly wonky Xmas crafts, do take a snap and post them up too.

Cheating, because it is from last Christmas (need inspiration for this year still..)

Mini Christmas Cakes for teachers

not sure if that worked or not...it seemed to work on preview

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photo posts won't play.

here they are

(not the point of the thread, I realise..)

still cute though

this is an advent calendar I made last year. Currently trying to think of things to fill it with for this year.

I am meant to be sewing some Christmas tree decorations this year, but as I haven't actually started them I won't be posting pictures any time soon

Stealth, your mini cakes are gorgeous!

Thank you, garlic. Previous years' have been more tasteful but the penguins were my favourite, especially the one for DD's guitar teacher (he didn't make the group photo)

Love him! You ARE clever!

Some little coin purses I've made, to be given to friends, prob with a gift card inside.

Some pillowcases - I'm doing several, these are for my aunty.

Trying again with the pillowcases. Hmm.

Ruffled shopping bag, made with a basic canvas tote which I then sewed simple ruffled strips onto. Very easy to make.

Talented Scuttlebutter !

how do we post pics to the comment then please?

oh ignore me, just noticed.

I've just started making floral stuff to sell at christmas craft fayres and this is my favourite most poncetastic one so far

We are making all our decorations this coming weeekend. Last weekend we traipsed round every craft shop and music shop in the vicinity.

We wanted nice sheet music. For baubles - papier mache.

Do you want a pic of me going demented, because only my imaginary self does craft. The real me gets conned every year by imaginary me.

Ahardyfool try doing the vodkas - much easier ! At the minute I'm making an elf and he will be on a zipwire some where

I'm making ds a stocking advent calendar. This is one of the hopefully 24 identical stockings I've knitted. I'm over half way there and determined to have it all finished by 1st December!

I also have 3 bottles of vodka brewing! Blackjack, fruit salad and mars bar! And I'm planning on making my own wreath nearer the time!

Check me!

Yay it worked!

How did you make yours work?

The photo or the vodka?

both

I have some bottles ready for the vodka ;)

I did make monogrammed santa sacks a couple of years ago. I'd just had DD that summer and had gone all homey homespun. However, I think the whole world has now we are all poverty stricken and in recession. I'm not sure what to make of it.

I did briefly consider housing a Turkey in the garden for xmas 2013, and growing all my own veg for xmas dinner but that was in a REALLY carried away moment.

I wish I could knit and do sewy things. Very well done everyone :)

Photo was easy ,just uploaded from my photo stream.

Vodka whack a load of sweets in vodka, put bottles In dishwasher on high setting. Leave to dissolve shaking it every day.