Frugal Holiday gifts?

[eleny]

I'll start. How about bookmarks for readers we know or cooks for their cookbooks?

I posted about fabric ones in the DIY forum. Slap some fabric together, do crazy stitching all over to hold the two fabrics together. Cut into rectangles and zigzag stitch around the edges. Upholstery scraps work great for this. I called to my local upholstery shop and asked for scraps. They gave me a bag for free.

Paper ones are even easier to make. Any carboard can be the base. Cut and paste on pictures in an artful way and end up poking a hole at the top with some ribbon or raffia or even thin strips of fabric as a tassle. Free wallpaper books are a great resource for any paper project.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. hmm being jewish we have too few of those to wrry

in fact four... I guess I am lucky... oh ok, six, two our our friends, and for those two I have one alraedy in the bag, a book he will love... for the second one, last year I gave them painted minis... this year I have no clue

[eleny]

2. Don't the kids get presents for several days in a row?

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. No that is Madison street

you get some money to play wiht, at the end of the week, all proceeds, win or loose go to charity