CRAZE'S CUNNIN' CHRISTMAS CRAFTS

I made some potpourri bouquets for my mother, step-mother and aunt! Each one cost <$10 total to make; I bought everything at Wal*Mart. The more you make, the less they'll cost per, since you can reuse a lot of material depending on the size of your vases.

Each one basically has:

-$2 medium-sized hurricane vases
-Those little stones put in beta fish bowls
-Plastic "diamonds;" chunky clear and golden pretties
-Colored rocks
-Cheap fabric/plastic beargrass and ferns AND/OR "botanical reeds;" thin and whimsical wooden sticks
-Fabric wisterias (the white flowers)
-A $1 bag of colored potpourri

I cut off the bottoms of the various plants and botanical reeds at different lengths, so as to create a varied and more interesting look. The beargrass and ferns have wires in the stems that make them easily bendable, which is why they stick out the way I wanted them to.






The stand is an unwrapped gift box of incense!

I also took a photo of some of my magazine envelopes. I usually put two stamps on these, but they are accepted as long you don't use any metal (so no staples). These are all made with National Geographics, but you can use any magazine. You might have to trim larger ones, though, and digests like Reader's Digest are likely too small. I can do a tutorial sometime, if anybody's interested! They're great fun and pretty quick. I make the return address/address tabs out of scrap construction paper from other projects. If you want to read any text/see them better, I can upload the original giant photo.



Sending Christmas thank-you cards is so much better when they're made of zebras and penguins. (The similar two envelopes on the bottom-left are both from a fold-out about penguins.)

I actually refuse to watch Christmas movies and I'm not a fan of Christmas music, but I like buying/decorating/wrapping gifts!

I'm, uh, fine with it? I just don't watch movies because 1) I don't watch movies very often and 2) I watched at least twelve different Christmas movies prior to the holiday each year when I was a kid.

Sixteen years of the exact same story many times over does not a want to watch it again make.