No glue mess Pinata- Summer activity

My son and I decided to follow the example that Curious George gave us making a pinata with boxes, tape and tissue paper. It was fun and easy to do.

Gift Card set Custom design

Prayer Jars (Demos for Ladies Meeting)

I picked up these jars typically used to store pepper flakes from my local Dollar Tree. I used the holes in the lids to my advantage with my embellishments. I used only paper scraps and did this very quickly so it's not my best work. 

Exploring next year's handmade gifts?

Perhaps I'll make scarfs for everyone? I just adore Pinterest! It has so many easy yet creative ideas for handmade items. 

Handmade Sugar Scrub as Christmas gifts for teachers, paras and bus drivers

Making sugar scrub. My question to you... What do you think about the decorated mason jars? I didn't want to spend any more money on decorating materials so I have utilized ribbon, and embellishments I already on hand. Thanks for checking this out. I'll do a more details post after I've finished because at this point I'm still making adjustment to the recipe I downloaded from another pinterest pin!

Christmas Cards 2012

This girl is NOT an artist by any means but, well, I did these little doodles and decided that this is what I'll be sending out for Christmas cards this year. Color me LAZY because this is so much easier that cutting, pasting, stamping. It may be a bit childish looking but well... it IS handmadebydavenie@blogspot.com

Fall Door Hanger

I just made up this fall door hanger for my Mother-in-Law. It took all of 5 minutes. Sorry my heart just wasn't into crafting today but I promised I'd get this to her so here it is...