Pallet Wall Hanging

This was probably the gift that I was most excited about
giving this Christmas.... a custom wall hanging! I ordered it
from a friend of mine, Tabby-she is so incredibly talented!

 

This was for my husband for Christmas to put in the cabin

that he (and his family) started building this year - so it
was kind of a gift for the whole Haynie side of the family.

My brother-in-law named the cabin "The Accord."

I was so excited about having Isaiah open this, because

it was pretty much the only thing that was a surprise for him!

 

I asked for some hardware at the bottom of the pallet

so we could hang keys on it so it would be functional too.

 

Tabby has an etsy shop if you would like to see

what all she has done - she pretty much does

everything as a custom order so you get exactly

what you want!



Holiday Printables Gift Set

One of my favorite gifts that I gave this year was a

printable set.... a LOT of my friends got them, but I tried to make

them suit each person, so not everyone got the exact same thing.

 

Most of the printables were for the major holidays  -

Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's

Day, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween, & Thanksgiving.

I also did one for summertime, and threw in a couple

random prints to use in between holidays.

 

My sister and I helped each other since we both gave these

as gifts - we had to trace and cut around each one to make

it fit in an 8x10 frame. I chose the Christmas printable to

put in each frame, and put all the other printables in sheet

protectors with a bow tied at the top to keep them together.

All the templates I used are shown below, with a link to get to them. 

New Year's 1 Printable

 New Year's 2 Printable

Valentine's Day 1 Printable

Valentine's Day 2 Printable

Valentine's Day 3 Printable

 

St. Patrick's Day Printable

Easter 1 Printable

Easter 2 Printable

Fourth of July Printable

Summertime Printable
 

Halloween Printable

 

Thanksgiving Printables

Christmas Printable

 

Home Printables

 

 

Playroom Printable

 

Verse Printables

 

A set of printables is a great gift, and can be given at anytime

in the year, not just Christmas! Guess I better hurry up and switch

my printable to the New Year's one...  

 

Crafty Wrapping

A couple years ago I bought tons of rolls of brown

craft paper from the dollar store and have used it

little by little over the years for this or that - baby shower

gifts, bridal shower gifts, birthday presents, etc.

 

Last year I planned to wrap Christmas presents with this

paper, and had bought scrapbook paper to make tags, along with 

twine and ribbon to match. Well, I didn't get around to it last year -

my dad had heart surgery AND a stroke the week of Christmas,

so I really didn't care much what any presents looked like. My

priorities were definitely different one year ago!

 

 But at least I was one step ahead this year =) I used a cricut to make

tags out of scrapbook paper with floral print, diamond print, and

sheet music for "The Twelve Days of Christmas" - all in dark red and

tan colors. I also used the cricut to make initials for a lot of the

gifts that I was giving.  I thought the wrapping turned out pretty... but my

husband and brother-in-law didn't appreciate my crafty wrapping - they

said they would have given me money for real wrapping paper so I didn't

have to use old grocery bags! Mean boys.

 

For presents that needed to go in gift bags, I got craft paper bags

and brown paper lunch bags (both from the dollar store!).

For the smaller gifts, I just put a couple hole punches at the top

of the lunch bag and tied a bow. For the larger gift bags,

I glued a tea-stained doily to the front with a small bow in the

middle, and then added a name tag. I have tons of these doily's 

leftover from a bridal shower my sister and I did back in the spring,

 and I had already decorated one of my trees with them this year. 

So having doiles on some of the presents under the tree looked really cute.

I still have LOTS of these doily's... I'm gonna have to come up with

some other ways to use them all! 

 

 My husband acted like he couldn't believe I turned my Christmas

wrapping into a craft project... you would think he knows me better by now!