What Christmas crafting do you enjoy?

[lovely_darlingprettybaby]

Do you make decorations?
I made decorations this year.
Cards?
There is so many things you can do.
I was thinking of making a Christmas canvas.

If I'm ever able to get any wrapping paper.
I like scrapbooks etc too.
Something I do like i like all kinds of crafts.
There are so things I am not as good st like polymer clay, i am not the best at everything I admit though some things take practice.

 

[Jumpinbare]

Basically, I turn on the tree lights. The tree has been in place for 2 years now.

 

[Cryptid]

Making ornaments and shelf villages out of glue, cardboard, paint, and glitter.

It's something my sibs and I used to do with our mother. Now that she's gone and the rest of us have scattered, it's one of the few connections I still have with the past.

 

[Mary Terry]

I like to cook. It's a craft, too!

 

[Forest Cat]

I like to make cards, there's a site I use where you can design your own cards and then they print those cards and send them to you. It's very professional, good quality paper and envelopes and everything. And they have cards for all occasions. It's called Optimalprint, if anyone needs cards.

 

[Gerontius]

Baking cookies is pretty cool. Used to try lots of Austrian recipes for no other reason than I'd found some and they were extremely interesting and, turns out, they were pretty good too.

One thing I always wondered about was popcorn strings. It's literally popcorn and thread, why did it go away? People didn't have time to make it in the evening I suppose, or kids weren't trusted with a sewing needle? Relatively recent as Christmas customs go, really first recorded in 1842, so maybe popcorn garlands haven't quite had their day yet.

I didn't put a Christmas tree up this year as it's a messy month for me but I shall do that as soon as I can next year. This is my first year in my new home so I am still settling in. Part of why I didn't was because of the great expense of the usual artificial tree, the decorations (now not made to the good quality I remember), and that sort of thing. But I think I should bring a little more festive decoration around next year.

 

[Mary Terry]

Baking cookies is pretty cool. Used to try lots of Austrian recipes for no other reason than I'd found some and they were extremely interesting and, turns out, they were pretty good too.

One thing I always wondered about was popcorn strings. It's literally popcorn and thread, why did it go away? People didn't have time to make it in the evening I suppose, or kids weren't trusted with a sewing needle? Relatively recent as Christmas customs go, really first recorded in 1842, so maybe popcorn garlands haven't quite had their day yet.

Cranberry garlands are pretty, too. Both the (unsalted) popcorn and cranberry garlands can be placed outside where birds can eat them.

 

[Gerontius]

Cranberry garlands are pretty, too. Both the (unsalted) popcorn and cranberry garlands can be placed outside where birds can eat them.

If it involves birds it's automatically better. I love that.

 

[AndyFBlues]

Holiday baking.

 

[Aspychata]

Crafting is great, l turn on the charm. I help people when l can. To usher in the new year.

 

[Judge]

In another lifetime ago we all used to make soft plastic Christmas Tree decorations from scratch for an exclusive purpose. To hang on the very bottom of the tree, so our cat could bat them without breaking them. Much better than swatting at glass bulbs and lights...lol.

 

[Mary Terry]

If it involves birds it's automatically better. I love that.

You can cut open oranges and apples and put them outside for the birds, too. Or smear peanut butter on a pinecone and hang it from a tree or bush for the birds.