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Back in the 70's, my sister Cindy and I
decided to make Christmas gifts for our aunts and uncles. We still
do this. Every year we try to come up with something unique and
different. We have made flavored sugar, padded photo frames, Lucite
photo frames with colored glass gemstones and charms, ceramic painted
boxes with homemade rose petal potpourri (We had rose bushes in our
yard and I dried the petals for the potpourri.), stuffed ducks,
aprons, crocheted place mats, candles, cookies in a jar, soup in a
jar, calendars, painted tee shirts, sweatshirts with studs, painted
Christmas sweatshirts, embroidered pictures, ceramic bowls (Cindy
made these), quilted place mats, water color paintings, photographs I
took and put into frames, hot pad mitts, wooden ducks dressed and used
as doorstops, calligraphy poems, beaded jewelry, and much more. This
year we decided to collaborate with the gifts we make for our three
aunts and one uncle. In the past years, we have collaborated on some
of the gifts and some of them we have made entirely by ourselves. I
found an Internet link to some printed tea towels to make this year.
Actually, we will be getting a little help from Spoonflower
to make the tea towels. In my collection of cookbooks, I have both
of my grandmother's cookbooks and recipes. I scanned some of the
recipes to a document and sent this document to Spoonflower. They
will print the recipes onto tea towel material. Since I hate to sew
and Cindy loves it, she will finish off the tea towels by hemming
each of them and then making sure that each aunt and uncle will
receive the Christmas gifts from us.
Now, I need to start working on an idea
for making Christmas gifts for the aunts and uncle for NEXT
Christmas! If you have any good ideas, sent them to me.
