Christmas Fayre

I had my first Christmas fayre at the local school last week :) I didn't offload as much as I would have liked but I did make £101 so it was definitely worth it. The things that sold were: 17 x Snowman Soup (Sold out, I could have shifted more as well) 13 x Handmade cards 6 x Reindeer food (unfortunately one of the other stalls were selling it as well) 3 x Reindeer Poop 8 x Snowman Poo 10 x Dairy Milk Snowmen 2 x Perfect Man 14 x Pony Bead Keyrings 8 x Knitted stockings (with chocs and candy cane inside) 4 x ES Tree Decs......I was disappointed not to sell more of these My sister is off to a boot sale tomorrow and has offered to take some of my leftover things and try and sell them. I made more snowman soup and gave her the leftover things.:)

Snowman Soup

I like making this, it looks so festive :) Enough hot choccy for two people and a little poem which reads: Was told you've been real good this year Always glad to hear it With freezing weather drawing near You'll need to warm the spirit So here's a little snowman soup Complete with stirring stick Add hot water, sip it slow It's sure to do the trick!

Christmas Stockings

More stuff for next months' craft fayre!! Unfortunately I can't knit to save my life but my mum was happy to produce these. Found a free pattern on the internet - the first couple took her 40 mins but once she knew the pattern they only took 20 mins to complete. I bagged and tagged them - the poem simply reads: 'The stockings were hung by the chimney with care In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there...' I did consider putting more choc coins in, but the way the sweets are really hold the shape of the stocking nicely so I stuck with what you can see.

EShaw Mint Tree Decs

Elizabeth Shaw Mints make the best tree decorations!! I love making these, the picture is of the first box load but I have done 2 more lots since then. It's so relaxing, and once my craft stuff is set up I can get through them fairly quickly. I did decide to bag them to make them look a bit more professional, and so they weren't clattering about and at risk of any bits falling off of them. Hoping to sell them for £1.50 a pack at the craft fayre.

I have done loads of green/red/gold ones but started doing some alternative colours as well.

Reindeer Poop

Started making things for the school crafft fayre at the beginning of December. These are so easy, 50g of choccy raisins, and should sell at 50p a bag.

Christmas Picture

It;s always nice to stitch something christmassy through December.

Found these card designs in a Cross Stitching magazine - I thought there was far too much work in them to make into cards - they took about 3-4 evenings stitching each.

Found the triple aperture frame in Sainsbury's back in October with 1/3 off the price and had been waiting for the perfect pictures to fill it.

I think I found them :)

Christmas Card - wooden figures

Another Christmas card attempt

As you can see, I got to get my stampers out again :D I quite like that Holly edging stamp.

The little wooden 3D figures were from a set I bought online - it cost £15(!) but there are LOADS of little figures, and sparkly bits in it. Enough to make up plenty cards.

Christmas Cards

I love these decoupagé sets, they are so cute!

I also got to use my stamps again to decorate, and have stamped inside with 'Merry Christmas' and a little tiny Robin in the corner holding a parcel.

They were so easy to do. I think it cost £2 for the die cut sheets, which gave me 6 cards to make up

Calendar Coasters

Honestly - the number of craft ideas I pick up on MSE!!

Some of these are made from covered beer mats, the smaller ones from chipboard rectangles. I do prefer the bigger ones, although there is more work involved in them.

The purple one is my favourite - I think I will have to keep one of those ones for myself!

Going to order another 30 calendars and make up some more this week.

Jingle Beans

I saw someone post this idea on MSE and I fell in love with them and HAD to make them for myself!!

The jars are 4 for £1 from IKEA
Jelly beans were approx £1 a bag from various places
The labels on the front were from a pack of Gift tags - 12 for £1

I'm going to a boot sale in a couple of weeks and am going to put some crafts as a little side line - definitely going to take some of these with me :)

Christmas Cards

Santa with wreath card - I reused a handmade card that I was sent last christmas. That led me to an interest in stamping, hence the second Santa face card. Again, I tried out stamping with the birds on the branch - the stamps were free with a papercraft magazine (which was handy!)

The angel card was made from a pack of die cut angels and faces (10 for £1.00 at madaboutcards.com) and the snowflake one is little sparkly gems on a metallic blue card, surrounded by hole-punched snowflakes.