| Christmas is a time of joy, piece, and giving. It is also a | | | | Stuff like the dollhouse furniture as well as lots of great |
| time of being broke. Adults often think that the idea of | | | | designs for backgrounds and the like can usually be |
| making Christmas gifts is only for children who do not | | | | found in the scrapbook section of your favorite craft |
| yet have their own money to buy gifts. However, with | | | | store.(3) Jewelry is a great personal do it yourself gift. |
| a little bit of ingenuity, some clever shopping, and a fair | | | | There are all different skill levels for creating your own |
| amount of free time, you can make some very grown | | | | jewelry, and lots of different pieces that you can |
| up do it yourself Christmas gifts.The first step is to | | | | purchase to make your gift as professional looking and |
| spend an afternoon at a craft store, and see what | | | | beautiful as you want. If you go to a good bead store, |
| sticks out at you as things you would be comfortable | | | | they will have lots of different settings on which to put |
| sitting down to work on. Some very basic, but very | | | | earrings and a great selection of different and |
| nice final product ideas include:(1) Knit caps. If you have | | | | interesting beads for you to use. The best part though, |
| time to pick up crocheting or knitting, Christmas is a | | | | is that they have expertise. With a little bit of help from |
| perfect time of year to put that talent to good use. | | | | the experts, you can make beautiful, one of a kind |
| You can make knit caps, mittens and scarves for men | | | | jewelry for less than a dollar a piece.(4) Ornaments |
| and women alike on your holiday shopping list. With all | | | | are a great way to celebrate the Christmas season. |
| of the different available colors and textures in yarns | | | | There are so many different ways to create your |
| today, it is virtually limitless what you can do to | | | | own unique ornaments, that you could make a |
| personalize a knitted gift. For some extra special fun, | | | | different type of ornament for nearly everyone on |
| you can work in some fun beads fairly easily to jazz | | | | your list. You could cross-stitch some ornaments, hand |
| up a more basic design.(2) Pick up some shadow box | | | | paint a box of regular glass ornaments, create egg |
| frames at the art store, and make some personal | | | | shell ornaments with glitter or paint, make picture frame |
| home decorations. For example, if you have someone | | | | ornaments, bead Holiday shapes with pipe cleaners |
| on your list who is a big fan of Beethoven, you can | | | | and pony beads, string some Hawaiian flowers for a |
| create a shadowbox picture with some music notes in | | | | funky tree garland, or just put a glittery hook on a plain |
| the background with a copy of a Beethoven | | | | ornament bulb. |
| songbook and maybe a dollhouse piano in the frame. | | | | |