Why Couldn't I Just Buy Them a Gift Card!

My apologies that it has been a while since I have blogged. To be honest, the holidays pretty much kicked my butt. For one thing I was busy baking. My aunt asked me to make decorated sugar cookies for her to give to her customers, which I was happy to do but it became more of a game of beat the clock to be sure that they were baked, decorated and packed in time to meet the USPS shipping deadlines. Then I went into my normal holiday baking. I always make homemade stromboli or pepperoni bread and am known, along with my mom for my cookie tray. The tray is pictured below and it has chocolate chip cookies, spritz cookies, sugar cookies, devil's food cookies, and cake balls! All of the cookies were delicious and for one that does not have a sweet tooth I have been eating my fair share of them!


In addition to all of the baking I decided to make some of my Christmas gifts. Big shocker there right! I always do this and think it is a way of saving money and showing off a little. My idea for the handmade gift came from a failed project I was working on. I was trying to make a bracelet out of tiny cover buttons. I am going to try again with that project but I was looking at the leftover cover buttons and thought about making tacks out of them and giving them as gifts. then I said, well I would want to put them on something. I was walking around Target and found a 4 pack of cork board so then I needed something to put the cork board in. I ended up finding great frames at Michaels and decided to decoupage scrapbook paper on the frames that coordinated with the buttons. And the finished project is below.


I know a lot of us crafty people prefer the DIY crafty gifts but I have to say, while the reaction to the gift is worth it, forgoing the crafty give and buying the traditional gift card would alleviate some of the holiday stress...but where is the fun in that??? Stay tuned because these little frames will be showing up in my Etsy Shop soon! 'Tis the Season!