Merry Christmas!

DIY Gingerbread House

Cardboard is a great material to use if you would like to make a Gingerbread House that can be used year after year.

I made this house out of cardboard and glued it together with caulk to made it look more like frosting. White gesso was used for the roof and on the front of the house. The furniture is made out of wooden clothes pins, and the house was sprayed with a clear coat to make sure that the candies will not bleed in the future.

Holiday Lights

Santa's Flamingos!?

Christmas Decorations

DIY Snowman from Recycled Bottles

These are made from POM Wonderful bottles, which is the perfect shape for snowmen!
( http://www.pomwonderful.com/)

I painted the bottles white, and made the hat and mittens from felt scraps. I think the dots I used for the mouth are supposed to be eyes, but they worked perfectly for a mouth. The nose is a small pom pom, and the scarfs are scraps of fleece.

Snow for Decorations

DIY Snow

Shredder paper from shredding machines makes excellent and cheap snow for indoor decorations.

Do Not Eat the Cookies!

There must have been a rash of cookie crime on the Polar Express!

Gift Wrap Ideas

For a fun and unique way to wrap Christmas gifts is to choose a theme to use as inspiration. Because the theme is only for inspiration to get you started, it can stray off and develop into something really fun!

My theme for this year is "Have yourself a Merry 80's Christmas" and because I make monsters, it only made sense to incorporate weepuls into the design.