Vegetable Christmas Tree

I chose to make this veggie tree to take to my Grandmothers house for our Christmas dinner. It was fairly simple to make but took me a little while to get it done right as this was my very first attempt. I chose to use a styrofoam cone shape (purchased at Hobby Lobby). For the veggies I used big leaf lettuce to cover the cone, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, and carrots. They are all held on with toothpicks. I made ranch dip to go with mine but you could use whatever you want.

Christmas Wreaths

Wreaths are so fun and very easy to make. I made these Christmas wreaths as another gift to the ladies this year. Everything on these wreaths I purchased at Michaels when the store was having their 50% off sale. These wreaths were created with a straw wreath and 10 ft of ribbon (barely enough, but made it work). I hot glue the ribbon at the starting point and then hot glue it at the finishing point. I then took the flowers and hot glued them on the sides and used glitter pins on the flowers to give them a little more sparkle. The sparkle puff balls were then added to the wreath to give it a little more color, as it looked bare to me with just the flowers on it. I took the letters and painted them red and green, and put dots on them with the opposite color. Once they were dry, I used the wired ribbon and hot glued it to the back of the wreath at the beginning and end of the length of my choice. Then I pinched the ribbon together just about the letter and put a dab of hot glue on it and pinched the ribbon together so the letter would not fall out. And here they are.

Scented Bath Salts

 I really enjoyed making all of this bath stuff for the ladies in my family for Christmas. This is another addition to the bags that I gave each of them. This is bath salt made from Epsom salt, lotion or soap coloring (Purchased at Michaels), Essential Oil Scents (Michaels), and a heart tin (Purchased at Wal-Mart). Labels were created through Avery and hot glued on.

Lotion

I made this lotion to go along with the sugar scrub that I have already posted. This was simple to make actually smells pretty good. The scents I used were cucumber melon, pink grapefruit, and apple pomegranate. I bought the non-scented shea lotion, scents, coloring, and bottles at Michaels. It took me about five minutes to mix everything together and to get the correct coloring and scent. I then created my labels at Avery for free and hot glued them on the bottles.

Repainted Chef Pig

 
My mother-in-law has had this chef pig for a really long time and about a couple of months ago we found it while cleaning up some of her stuff. She wanted it repainted so I took it from her and got to work on him. My husband and I completely re-done this chef pig and he turned out so good, that I wish we could find some more like this one was before so I could re-do some more of them. This took me about a week to paint and gloss and my hubby repainted the chalkboard for me once I was done. Here he is from beginning to end.

Christmas Tea Light Holder

I really enjoy making different things every so often and making this was really fun. I just used a glass jar and red and clear gems purchased at Wal-Mart. With some hot glue I got started making this and had it done in one night. I think it turned out really good and I will hopefully be making more sometime soon.

Wine Cork Ball

 

I have been seeing a lot of wine cork items online lately and decided I would try to make something out of some wine corks we purchased. This thing was very time consuming to make, but fun to say the least. I think we used a 3in. Styrofoam ball, and I am unsure of how many corks we used. The hubby glued the corks on the ball and I put all the moss in between all the corks. It took us about 2 days to complete this but was well worth it. It is so pretty and we had it hanging over our bar. We are contemplating doing one out of champagne corks next.