19 Days of Homemade Gifts ~ Day 5 ~ Duct Tape Composition Notebook and Bookmark

Today's Homemade Gift is a great gift for your kiddos to make and give to their friends.

All you need is a composition notebook, a roll or two of Duct tape or a roll of Duct tape and a couple of rolls of Washi Tape. 

Start by using the Duct tape to cover the NOT SO PRETTY white box on the front of the notebook. 

Take the tape from the inside front cover across the front

and around to the back.

Then you can add some sass with the Washi tape.  

Up next, cut a piece of Duct tape two inches longer than your notebook.  Fold your sticky sides together long ways.

Add more sass!

Cut the edges into a V shape and you are all done.

Charity

Day 1 ~ Salt Dough Ornaments
Day 2 ~ Silent Night, Holy Night Pillow
Day 3 ~ Sentimental Penny Keychain
Day 4 ~ Cookie Sheet Chalkboard
Day 5 ~ Duct Tape Composition Notebook
Day 6 ~ Bible Bookmark
Day 7 ~ Bible Notebook

19 Days of Homemade Gifts ~ Day 4 ~ Cookie Sheet Chalkboard

This Cookie Sheet Chalkboard is a great simple gift to let your kids make and then they could wrap it up for their teachers.  I grabbed a 2-pack of cookie sheets from the dollar store. 

I used a fine grit sandpaper and ruffed up the flat surface before I painted it with chalkboard paint.

After painting several coats of paint and allowing them to dry fully, I got busy with the chalk.

Using the side of a piece chalk I lightly went over the entire surface of the chalkboard.

Then wiped off the excess.

Now, you are ready to write on your new Chalkboard.

Hot glue four magnets to the back of the cookie sheet and one to the back of a cute embellishment.  The chalkboard can be hung on the refrigerator and you are ready to keep up with your weekly menu or whatever your heart desires.

Charity

Day 1 ~ Salt Dough Ornaments
Day 2 ~ Silent Night, Holy Night Pillow
Day 3 ~ Sentimental Penny Keychain
Day 4 ~ Cookie Sheet Chalkboard
Day 5 ~ Duct Tape Composition Notebook
Day 6 ~ Bible Bookmark
Day 7 ~ Bible Notebook

19 Days of Homemade Gifts ~ Day 3 ~ Sentimental Penny Key Chain

This keychain makes a great sentimental gift for all the men in your life. Find pennies with your sentimental years (birth of your kids, when you got married, etc.…).  Then, gather all the other supplies and get busy making your

Supply List

• Pennies with sentimental years
• Hammer
• Nails
• Scrap block of wood
• 6mm or larger jump ring
• Keychain jump ring
• Brillo Pad

Use the Brillo pad to clean the pennies.


Grab a handful of small nails, a hammer and a scrap block of wood and hammer a hole into each of your pennies.

If you have trouble getting the nail all the way through, flip the penny over and hammer from that side.


This not hard but you will bend a few nails, just be prepared with extra nails.


Use a small jump ring to go through the pennies and then attach to the keychain.



This makes a great gift for the men in your life!!

Charity

Day 1 ~ Salt Dough Ornaments
Day 2 ~ Silent Night, Holy Night Pillow
Day 3 ~ Sentimental Penny Keychain
Day 4 ~ Cookie Sheet Chalkboard
Day 5 ~ Duct Tape Composition Notebook
Day 6 ~ Bible Bookmark
Day 7 ~ Bible Notebook

19 Days of Homemade Gifts ~ Day 2 ~ Silent Night, Holy Night Pillows

 

  I want to share an easy craft project with you this morning.  It is a great way to add a little Christmas cheer to your home or share with a friend as a gift.

 

 
 

I made two pillow covers for pillows that I already have on my sofa.  If you do not sew you can do this same thing to  store bought pillows for friends.

 

Then I used this product

I bought mine from an office supply store.

I printed the words Silent Night and Holy Night onto these transfer pages and  trimmed around the words and ironed them onto my fabric.  The hardest part is you need a mirror image of words (print them backwards).

It is a very easy way to add a festive touch to my sofa and now each time I see them I am reminded of that wonderful night and all that Christmas is really about.

Charity

Day 1 ~ Salt Dough Ornaments
Day 2 ~ Silent Night, Holy Night Pillow
Day 3 ~ Sentimental Penny Keychain
Day 4 ~ Cookie Sheet Chalkboard
Day 5 ~ Duct Tape Composition Notebook
Day 6 ~ Bible Bookmark
Day 7 ~ Bible Notebook

19 Days of Homemade Gifts ~ Day 1 ~ Salt Dough Ornaments and Gift Tags

I am so excited to share a great Christmas craft project today.  Salt dough ornaments and gift tags.  For pennies you can make a great gift for your family and friends.  I am using the ones my girls and I made as gift tags that the recipients can later use as an ornament.

All you need to get started is

1 cup all purpose flour

1/2 cup salt

1/2 water

1,2,3 easy peasy!!!

Toss it all in the mixer for a few minutes.

Once it is all combined

Kneed until smooth

I separated mine, so each girl could have one.

Roll the dough ball out on wax paper

Now for the fun part….

Grab a doily and press it into the dough with the rolling pin.

When you lift the doily off you will be left with a beautiful pattern.

Next grab a cookie cutter and cut out your ornaments.

Remove the dough from around your ornament shapes, lift and

place on a cookie sheet and poke a hole with a straw.

Cook at 200 degrees for 5-6 hours.

Take them out and let them cool.

Paint them white, start with the back.  After the back is dry, paint the front.

After the paint is dry apply glue to the front.

While the glue is still wet sprinkle with glitter.

Lightly wipe off the top, so that the glitter only sticks in the grooves.

After the glitter and glue has dried seal with a spray sealer.

Write on the back who the gift is to and from and run a ribbon through the hole.

Hang from your gift.

And give to your friends and family.

A simple gift that will become sentimental in the years to come.

 

Charity

Day 1 ~ Salt Dough Ornaments
Day 2 ~ Silent Night, Holy Night Pillow
Day 3 ~ Sentimental Penny Keychain
Day 4 ~ Cookie Sheet Chalkboard
Day 5 ~ Duct Tape Composition Notebook
Day 6 ~ Bible Bookmark
Day 7 ~ Bible Notebook

Saying Yes

A few years ago there was a turning point with my walk with God,

a point of an all or nothing decision. 

Thankfully, I chose all.

I had no idea what the decision would do to my life at the time or that it would change everything about me on some level.  I remember a prayer time with God where I told Him that my answer was YES.  YES to whatever He would ask of me in the future.  I would Submit my will and desires to Him.  I would submit my attitude and judgments to Him.  I would submit my time and possessions to Him.  I would submit my gifts and talents to Him.  It started small and I can not say that I have done ALL the first time that He has asked or that it has all been easy to surrender and I am for sure not finished… sanctification is until the end.  But here is what I do know because I have trusted and stepped out in faith I have been places and done things for Christ that I know I am not worthy or capable of.  I have watched the God of the universe use me to do things that I know are not in my skill set.  Each new step has shown me that it was never about me and what I can do but always about what needed to be done and the power of God through the Holy Spirit that can and does preform miracles.  With each and every YES that I have given God, I have been amazed at what He has done with it.  He has provided all that was needed and taken care of every detail.  All He ever needed from me was faith big enough to say YES!

Picture by the fabulous Coleen Verner

Is God calling you to say YES, today?   I pray that each of you who read this will have the faith to say YES to God and the call He has on your life.  Step out and know that all He needs is a YES from you, He will provide the rest.

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”

He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.       

                                                                                                                  Luke 17:5-6

 

This faith walk is an exciting adventure, one that I am excited to share with you!

 

Charity