Saturday, December 2nd, 2023
UPDATE: The winner is…cindy!
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I’m up early to get ready for the Christmas craft sale today! I’ll post this blog and go jump in the shower. Even if it rains, and that puts a damper on folks turning out for the sale, it will be fun! I always shop the other vendors, and the venue feeds us really, really well. I can’t wait for the homemade chili!
In the meantime, solve the puzzle! Then tell me whether you have any homemade holiday decorations you treasure for a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card!
Psst! And don’t forget to head over to my Friends page on Facebook to enter the Advent contest!
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I had a few homemade but unfortunately many have been lost in our move. But due have some that were given to us from family and friends over the years.
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I still have the stocking my mother made me as a child.
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Sometimes we have homemade decorations but not often.
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We used to make homemade ornaments and drew names and made homemade gifts because with 6 kids and a single mother you had to be thrifty. I still have most of my gifts and ornaments. I cherish them dearly now that mom has passed.
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Absolutely! I have Santa Claus stockings my mom crocheted for myself and hubs. I also have tree decorations from my kids when they were little and a handprint and a footprint reindeer from my grandson when he was one!
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Wow. Fun puzzle. Took me 9 minutes, not sure if good or bad😂. Love homemade decorations, my kids made a ton and school and still have them all.
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I’ve made a lot of homemade ornaments. When I worked at the local 5 and dime back in the late 70s, every year I made a limited edition of a 2×3 inch counted cross-stitch stuffed ornament. It was stitched on one side, the other was a section of the red or green cloth napkins. It was stitched together and filled with polyfill and a pine potpourri. I stitched the year on every set.
The other I have made were 2 squares of plastic canvas that when cut out and set together, it formed an 8 point piece. I used either blue for a snowflake or green for holly. I hung a jingle bell in the center. Always gave them all away–never kept any for myself.
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We have some with pictures of the kids when they were young. And some really old ones I had decorated with our names in glue & glitter. I saw a craft I want to try – stacked flat buttons that graduate from larger to small that look like little Christmas trees.
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I have a few I made and painted, but my favorite is this little ornament my grandma made.
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yes
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I have all of the homemade ones that my kids made for the tree. It was always our thing when they were still at home, everyone made a new ornament for the tree every year.
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I have a ceramic angel my friend made in 7th grade art class and I graduated in 87.
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My grandkids made me a Christmas ornament I still have
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My tree is mostly either homemade–by me or a family member or they were gifts from friends and family. So many memories attached to each one.
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I have ornaments from friends and family that have passed away that I love
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I have a lot of ornaments that my children made many years ago. All treasured.
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When I was 6 years old I had a friend whose mother made pottery. He made me a beautiful pottery of Mary with glitter all over it. It’s still one of my favorite ornaments even though it cracked years ago and I had to glue it back together.
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Yes, I have a couple my kids made years ago. Oldest small picture ornament. Youngest a popsicle stick ornament Rudolph. Thanks
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We have a few slightly tattered ones the kids made when they were little. They’re definitely precious, LOL! Hope you enjoyed a fabulous day and had wonderful sales!
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Yes have a few
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There are a few from when my siblings and I were in primary school that we still hang on the tree at my mom’s. The fact that they have been around for a few decades doesn’t stop the memories we have.
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I love making any crafts, last year I made snow globes and they came perfect.
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I’ve got ornaments made by my daughters when they were young & now some my granddaughter made. I keep them year to year & still put them in the tree.
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I made Christmas Angel Tree toppers for mine and my cousins trees about 30 years ago. We all still have them and use them. The kids are now asking where theirs are since they are married and have families of their own with their own trees. So I am
Making more this year.
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I have one my niece made a few years ago
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I have some ones my Mom got when I was a teenager. Crochet milk ring wreathed, and many others I’ve created over the years including my new gnome decorations Ive created over the last years time.
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I have a couple of ornaments that I cherish that my mom made several years ago. My family also has what we call an ornament day where we get together and make ornaments that each person has picked out. It is so much fun, and we make some of the cutest and uglies ornaments. We love the ugly ones as much as we do the cutest ones.
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We are a family of crafters. Most of our ornaments are handmade these days. The best ones though are the ones made by my granddaughter.