Last Minute Gifts to Make
Last Minute Gifts to Make
I have a confession to make. I set my alarm just so that I could walk around my house and enjoy the twinkling lights this Christmas.
You see I realized this year that I wasn’t spending hours (days if I add it all up) creating Instagram worthy projects and picture perfect rooms for someone else to admire, I do this for me too.
There’s something magical about Christmas time that only manifests when we take the time and invest our best efforts to decorate our homes for Christmas.
It transforms the place that we spend most of our time as a family into a place that encourages us to snuggle. To get excited and to wrap presents. To spontaneously ask Alexa to play Christmas songs because they make us smile.
And for a few minutes this morning, I wanted to feel that magic that I know I helped to create through these projects that on the surface are just crafts but truly create atmosphere.
It’s my wish this Christmas that you take the time to admire your home. Look past the flaws and forget the projects that you wanted to do but didn’t get done. See the beauty.
When I do this simple thing, I’m transformed. Suddenly I don’t have a long to-do list. I have a list of people things that I’d like to do to show my love for my friends and my family.
It’s never going to be perfect, and I’m never going to be able to do everything that I wanted to. That’s what Christmas in July is for and that’s why I start Christmas preparations in October (more about that in January when we talk about planning your most creative year yet.) But it’s still almost perfect!
Here’s the second confession of the morning. I love last minute gifts!
To be clear, I don’t love running to the store to comb through rejected spa kits and chocolate covered cherries (are those still a thing?)
I love pulling out all those craft supplies that I bought with the best of intentions but that somehow got stuffed into a drawer and creating a little something personal for someone I love.
Almost every year my boys—they’re men now but I’m in denial—get flower lapel pins in their stockings. And because we’re church going folk, I love to personalize pocket squares with iron-ons ranging from antlers to a Captain America shield.
My daughter and I make Chill Pill bottles for her friends, and I’m always making holiday signs for my friends like these and these.
Here’s a round up of great last-minute projects that caught my eye the past few weeks. I also have a TON of last minute projects in my freebie library. They’re free to all my newsletter subscribers. And believe me, you want my newsletter because I tell you where to find the best craft freebies each week.
Also, if you like the wrapping ideas and Cricut made gift tags on the first picture, get the how-to right here.
- Customized Sharpie Mugs by Adventures of a DIY Mom
- Lapel Flowers
- Festive Tray
- Cricut Made Signs
- Peppermint Soap Candy by Purple Hues and Me
- Mug Cake in a Jar by Purple Hues and Me
- Chill Pills
- Personalized Coasters by Domestically Creative
- Christmas Simmering Potpourri by Adventures of a DIY Mom
- Gnome-Made Cupcake Kit
- Girls clip-on Earrings by DIY Adulation
Want more ideas? Check this out!
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