I love being warm and comfortable. If that isn’t obvious yet by the amount of blankets and pillows making their way into these Handmade Holiday crafts! So three years ago before we went on our honeymoon I knew I wanted a blanket to take on the plane, and I wanted it to stay connected with …
Handmade Holidays: How to Make a Rice Hot Pack
I’ve been making Rice hot packs for years! They’re always well received gifts and you never know when you’ll have an ache or pain and need one yourself! Project Time: 20 minutes per hot pack You can generally make a hot pack just about any size you like! I’ve made little ones that can be …
Handmade Holidays: How to Make an Oven Towel
Don’t y’all hate when you go to grab a towel off the oven handle and it slips to the ground. Ugh. Well no more! With this quick tutorial and low cost supplies from Dollar Tree you can make yourself a stack of oven towels ready for all your drying needs and they won’t slip to …
Handmade Holidays: How to make a No Sew Blanket
Now guys, listen. Don’t be a craft snob like me and think you’re above a no sew blanket. I have turned my nose up to these since I knew about them years ago and this year I saw JoAnns was having a doorbuster sale on 48″x48″ ones that I could easily afford and gift to …
Handmade Holidays: How to Make a Coffee Sugar Scrub
A few years ago while visiting friends in Virginia my husband and I found a cute airstream that housed a store with cute handmade items and a, “do it yourself” sugar scrub corner. I hadn’t really done much exfoliating outside of St.Ives Peach scrub, or a foaming sugar scrub from Bath and Body Works. I …
Handmade Holidays: How to make a pillow with a t-shirt
Remember that Disney shirt from yesterday that I didn’t end up using on the Pillow Blanket? Well I was so into the idea of making it become a pillow that I did just that! Last year I had made my husband a pillow using one of his old shirts that he loved but it was …
12 Days of Handmade Holidays: How to make a Pillow blanket
I remember one year my grandma, who is super crafty in my opinion, asked me like she always does, what I wanted for Christmas. I was probably about 13-14 years old and I asked if she would make me a pillow blanket. Basically a blanket that folds up into a pillow! She has some pretty …