For years i have been saying that I need to come up with a quick, fun & easy holiday project so that I can send all my relatives in England something handmade. Well, this was the year that I finally made it happen. And for that I thank Kajsa Wikman, the author of Scandinavian Stitches (Stash Books) because were it not for a certain project I found in the pages of her book, my relatives in England and I would have been disappointed yet another time.
Here is a photo of her Yule House project from the book.
Yule House project from Kajsa Wikman's book Scandinavian Stitches
And these are the Yule houses I made for my relatives and a few other lucky people on this side of the lake.
my Yule Houses
These houses made the perfect gift for the relatives because they are incredibly lightweight and so are cheap to mail oversees. Also, you can select fabrics, and window and door shapes and sizes that you think will suit the person the house is intended for. I admit that it took me a long time to come up with fabric combinations I liked,
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Well my punishment for getting a speeding ticket a few months ago finally arrived the other day. If I want to do traffic school (and save the point on my record and resulting insurance hike) I must pay $271 by December 17th. The good news: I have some time to save up for the payment. The bad news: My options for holiday gift-giving are severely limited. I’ve already decided not to participate in the Secret Santa thing at work. And I’m pretty sure my friends have stopped expecting anything from me gift-wise at holiday time. But this still leaves my immediate family and a few special buddies that I just can’t remove from my “Nice” list this year. So I’ve been wondering what to do and have come up with a few ideas so far:
#1 I am going to raid my Etsy shop. There’s only 4 items left in it, but they’ve just been sitting there so… <shrug>. I hate to give slow-movers as gifts though, so I am not sure this will work unless one of the items just happens to start screaming the name of someone on my list.
#2 Shirt.woot.com. The T-shirt of the
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