Easy Homemade Christmas Gifts 2014


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Christmas is our favorite holiday season of the year. We love the decorations, lights, music, being surrounded by family and busy get-togethers with loved ones. These special event can be quite expensive. Are you looking for meaningful Christmas gift ideas that don't cost much to make? "Easy Homemade Christmas Gifts 2014: DIY Gifts For Everyone You Know!" is filled with great projects that are perfect for all your gift-giving needs this holiday season. You and your kids will have fun making these gifts. Simple household items will become Popsicle Stick Puzzles, Melting Wax Crayons, plus many items will become beautiful, treasured gifts like the Lotion and Nail File Gift Box, Homemade Beeswax Candles, Let It Snow Treat Jars and even the dog will not be forgotten with special baked dog treats. Put on the Christmas tunes and get into the gift making spirit. "Easy Homemade Christmas Gifts 2014: DIY Gifts For Everyone You Know!" will inspire you




Handmade Gifts


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Crafty handmade gift ideas to help you create presents at home Handmade Gifts covers all the popular crafts such as sewing, knitting, paper-crafts, candle-making, and crochet, plus making jam and baking, so you're sure to find something that inspires you to get crafting. Handmade Gifts contains over 70 craft projects with step-by-step instructions and photographs of the finished gift along with variations to ensure your item is unique and personal. From homemade cards and teacup candles to crochet blankets and chocolate egg truffles, it's full of ideas for every occasion including birthdays, seasonal gatherings, house warmings, and baby showers. Suggestions for green and up-cycled gifts as well as clever tips on how to wrap and present your handmade crafts are included. Plus, 20 technique lessons are peppered throughout such as melting soap, casting on and off, and simple embroidery stitches. Handmade Gifts is the perfect craft book for anyone who wants to make beautiful, affordable and unique gifts for friends and family. Gifting wine and shop-bought chocolate is out, homemade sweets and gifts are in!




Plan Your Year


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Making Children's Clothes


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Expert seamstress Emma Hardy explains how to make beautiful and unique clothes for your children with these 25 simple and practical designs. Expert seamstress Emma Hardy explains how to make beautiful and unique clothes for your children with these 25 simple and practical designs. Make charming clothes for your children by combining a few easy-to-learn stitches with great fabrics and trims—choose from 25 different projects, including dresses, simple shirts and elasticated trousers, sleepwear, and accessories such as hats, bibs, bootees, and aprons. There are clothes for young boys and girls, toddlers and babies, all with full-size paper patterns provided. Packed with useful tips and sewing techniques, Making Children’s Clothes is a comprehensive guide to creating fantastic items that any child will love to wear.




Project Teen


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Please the pickiest tech-savvy teens and tweens with these 21 trendy projects you can sew. Most of us would agree that sewing something that teens will like is, without a doubt, a challenge. In Project Teen, Melissa Mortenson, sewist and mother of three teenagers, shares not only her 21 teen-approved designs, but also invaluable tips and tricks for sewing for this unique (a.k.a. picky) age group. Whether you make a stylish tech cover, a cushy study pillow, or a personalized quilt, your teen will love these handmade gifts as much as you love them. • 21 projects, specifically for teens and tweens (ages 11+), including quilts, T-shirts, tech covers, totes, accessories, and so much more • Lots of inspiring ideas and designs for the perfect gifts • Get the 411 on what’s cool when it comes to fabric and style—so that your teen is sure to love what you make! Praise for Project Teen “Mortenson has a good eye for what teenagers actually need and want. . . . Something here will appeal to that trickiest of demographics, making the book a worthwhile buy.” —Publishers Weekly “Project Teen is a fresh, mod, fun way to sew for the tweens/teens in our life - kids, grands, nieces & nephews. The projects meet the ever changing needs of kids, from travel blankets and tablet covers to simple bags to store everything in.” —Generation Q Magazine




150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids


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Bring back playtime, all the time with these 150+ screen-free activities kids will love! Dive into a Bubbling Swamp World. Drum on an Outdoor Sound Wall. Explore the gooeyness of Glowing Slime. With the one-of-a-kind projects in 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids, your family will rediscover the spirit of imaginative play! These fun activities help develop your child's creativity and skills--all without a screen in sight. Featuring step-by-step instructions and beautiful photographs, each budget-friendly project will keep your child entertained, engaged, and learning all day long. Best of all, no one will complain about turning off the TV or computer with such entertaining activities as: –Natural Dye Fingerpaints –Taste-Safe, Gluten-Free Playdough –Erupting Volcano Dinosaur World –Fizzy Rainbow Slush –Taste-Safe Glow Water Complete with dozens of exercises for babies, toddlers, and school-aged children, 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids will help your family step away from your devices and step into endless afternoons of playtime fun!




Night Tree


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A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.




DIY Christmas Gift Ideas: Quick, Easy and Inexpensive "Do It Yourself" Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas


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Christmas is a beautiful time to make great gifts that you can give to your loved ones! Why do we give gifts on Christmas? It all started with the gifts that the Wise Men gave to Jesus on his birth. These gifts included the following:Frankincense, a perfume used for worship, indicating that Jesus would be worshipped by the people, Myrrh, a perfume used to cover the smell of dead bodies, indicating that Jesus would suffer and die, and Gold, indicating that Jesus would be the King of Kings We are continuing the tradition of giving gifts and that too with increasing enthusiasm year after year. And what better way to show your love and devotion to your friends and family than to make something with your own hands, something they will know you took time and effort to make especially for them: a gift that will never be replicated and that it will certainly be priceless as you cannot put a price tag on a homemade Christmas gift. In this book you will learn: CHAPTER 1: HOMEMADE EDIBLE CHRISTMAS GIFTS CHAPTER 2: HOMEMADE BATH AND BEAUTY CHRISTMAS GIFTS THAT WOMEN WOULD LOVE CHAPTER 3: USEFUL EASY-TO-MAKE FABRIC GIFTS CHAPTER 4: GET BUSY MAKING SOME CANDLES CHAPTER 5: HOMEMADE SNOW GLOBES CHAPTER 6: THE GIFT OF CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS CHAPTER 7: GIFTS FOR DRESSING UP PRECIOUS MODERN GADGETS So read on to find out how easy, quick and inexpensively you too can give beautiful homemade Christmas gifts!




Crafter's Guide to Packaging Handmade Products


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Aimed at crafters, this book features creative packaging ideas for homemade products. Whether selling on sites such as Etsy or through craft or trade shows, it shows you how to give them that professional edge to make the crucial difference between a one-time sale and customers who come back for more.




A Touch of Farmhouse Charm


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Create the Home You’ve Always Dreamed of with Easy, Authentic Farmhouse Décor Opening A Touch of Farmhouse Charm is like taking a breath of fresh, clean country air. With the turn of each page, Liz Fourez leads you on a tour through her family’s house, restored to its 1940s rustic farm style, and teaches you how to make each handmade decoration yourself. The projects require minimal effort, yet add instant charm to any room. With your blue jeans on and a few of the most basic supplies in hand, you’ll be on your way to your dream home in no time. You’ll learn how to make a custom wood Family Name Sign for your living room, a Wooden Boot Tray on Casters for the entryway, a Ruffled Stool Slipcover for the kitchen and a Rustic Wooden Frame for the bedroom, plus decorations for the office, bathroom, kids’ bedroom and playroom. Farmhouse style is about cultivating a connection among family, home and nature; A Touch of Farmhouse Charm helps you bring the warmth and beauty of simpler times to your modern life naturally.