Your inner Christmas craftyness...

I love Christmas time!  Spending time with family (I will be missing them so much this Christmas - we will be staying in Istanbul), then there's the food, the decorations, the music...   Christmas time also seems to bring out the inner craftyness in a lot of us - which is great!  What could be nicer than a handmade gift?  I still have and treasure the little decoration my Mum made for me many years ago.  I love pulling it out of the box each year and remembering.

So here are some gorgeous Christmas crafts for those in the mood...

Templates and instructions for these cute little fabric trees from The Small Object

Miniature Flower Garland from Once Wed (via Hop Skip Jump).  I especially like Fiona from Hop Skip Jump's version using larger petals and fewer flowers.  I'm all about instant crafty gratification.

I love these DIY ornaments from Amy Merrick on design*sponge...if only I could find any of these materials!

Find the free download and instructions for this very cute little house at Twelve22.

Oooh, by the way - the eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed another addition to the side bar... I am so happy that the Light Garden cards and gift tags are now available at the Peoria Art Guild in central Illinois!  I have been having fun looking at maps of where my little cards are going to!  Peoria Art Guild is a non-profit community art center dedicated to education, exhibits, and community service.  The cards and gift tags are available in the Gallery store alongside beautiful jewelry, ceramics, sculpture and hundreds of oils, acrylics, watercolors, etchings, photographs, and pastels.  It is such an honour to have some of my goods there!

Image above is from the Peoria Art Guild website.  All other images are from the respective sites linked to.