Christmas is coming (Do-Vember #13)

Do-Vember

I recently started a Christmas board on Pinterest, just to collect up ideas that were getting lost under other headings (was that Sewing? Crochet Patterns? Parties?).

Here are some of my favourites so far:

How to fold a disposable cup into a candy box (how's that for Sloyd?)

How to fold a green paper napkin into a Christmas tree

A pretty picture of jars with tea lights inside (but you can't click through for directions, it just goes to a weight loss site). I've actually saved up three or four jars like that this year, since we have a favourite brand of canned pears from Poland (really, don't ask), and they come in large jars. This is something I might actually Do.

Gingerbread Hug Cookies at the Wilton website, just because they are so unbelievably cute. Maybe not that practical, but cute.

Sometimes I make other things: A paper-lunchbag memory book

Last summer I went to a rummage sale and picked up a couple of like-new Debbie Mumm scrapbooking sets: books of page backgrounds, stickers, and diecuts.

Today I cut one of them up to make a paper-lunchbag mini memory book. (Something like this tutorial.)

The front cover

The first set of inside pages (the one on the left is a pocket)

Another set of inside pages

A pocket page where I slipped in the leftover stickers

The back cover

An inside page that uses the bag openings as a pocket for more pullouts

View that shows the bottom edge (I trimmed that bit of white after I took the photos)

My favourite page again, the one with the egg-shaped pocket

The side edge.  I glued down the side of the front cover a little better after I took the photo.

(I am not a scrapbooker. I don't have the right adhesives or paper cutters. I just used scissors and glue, and yes, I know it shows. On the other hand, to paraphrase Pigpen, I didn't know it would turn out as well as it did!)