Home Made For the Holidays {Gifts for Dads}

Todays post is brought to you by My Sister's Suitcase.  Be sure to head on over to see a gift for dad. A super sute idea to get dad in the mood for the holidays.

                     

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Home Made for the Holidays

Come back tomorrow or a fantastic post..  Gifts for grandparents. 

See you tomorrow.

Adrienne

Home Made Holidays {All about the Ladies}

Today is all about he ladies.  Moms, Girlfriends, Grandmas, Daughters any lucky lady in your life. I have made a few ideas I think you may like.  Whatever kinda of girl she is one of these ideas is bound to get her excited. So off we go....

Home Made for the Holiday Day 6 For the Ladies

I was at a craft show and a local vendor was selling jeans and jewelry.  All was manufactured.  When you bought a pair of jeans you got to choose a piece of jewelry.  I found a necklace I loved and she ended up getting it with her purchase.  I decided to recreate it with a little twist.  Here is what I cam up with. 

Home Made Holidays day 5 { Decor Day}

We are almost half way through our Home Made holiday.  Wow its gone by.  Today's post is Over at My Sister Suitcase.  Brooke from Inside out designs. Super cute decor ideas using tree branches.  There is also a Home Goods gift card up for grabs from one lucky winner.  Head on over and check it out.

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Adrienne

Home Made for the Holidays: day 4 Cute Pillow and Printable

Naughty Or Nice Free Printable

I made one of these a few years ago to help my kiddos behave a little better around the holidays.  Those kiddos have kinda outgrown the chart.  But my 3 year old has not so I decided it was time to introduce the Naughty or Nice Chart this year to here. 

Print it out and hang it on a fridge or magnet board.  Use a small magnet to track the goodness and let the magic of the holidays do its work. 

There are no set rules just do what works best for you.  I decided to let my daughter move the magnet each day she has done something good. But when she make a poor choice we move it back. No matter how many times a day. We shall see if it works.  So here it is.

The Naughty or Nice Chart

 

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Home Made day 4Tutorial  is over at My Sisters Suitcase today.  Check out her post for a kids Christmas pillow and a giveaway. Its super cute you won't want to miss it.

 

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Home Made for the Holidays for the Girl

Home Made for the girl... I saw a dress liked this on pinterest and just couldn't pay the price. So with my mad sewing skills I came up with this. 

Supplies:

Fabric 2 different prints

1 inch elastic for waist band

matching thread

ribbon about 3 yards

embellishements

about  1/2 yard scrap fabric or just white fabric

I made my skirt to be a size 4-5

You will need to cut 3 pieces.

Waistband (24x45)

Skirt body (15x45)

Skirt top (12x45)

I decided I wish I would have made the top 15x45 as well to get more gather when finished.

Take your waist band and sew the short ends together.  Making a a band.

Make a 1 1/4 inch hem. Leave a 1 inch opening for threading elastic through later.

Take the skirt body and sew the short ends. To make a a tube. Hem the bottom with a 1/4 inch rolled hem. Set your skirt body and waist band.

Cut 2 inch strips.  For a 15 length skirt I cut 5.

  I ran the raw edges through my serger just to clean the edges.

Hem 1 short edge. This will lay with the hemmed edge of the top skirt.

Take the top skirt and hem the bottom edge.Your fabric should be one length.

Measure the fabric into sections For 45 inches I measured mine 8 1/2 inches. Lay one of your strips down and pin.

Stitch down each edge of the strips. Then down the center. Dividing the strips into 2 sections.

Fold fabric with right sides together.

Stitch down along the edge. Leaving about 3/4 inches from edge to seam.

Press open seam. Stitch down, Making a pocket wide enough for your ribbon.

Looking something like this when you are finished.

Turn  skirt body right side out.

 Now is when you thread your ribbon into the pockets you just made.

Stitch around the top to secure the ribbons in place. 

Pin both fabrics together.  Using a basting stitch around the the top of the skirt. About 1 inch from the top. Pull the top thread and gather the skirt until the skirt fits the waistband.

Once the skirt is gathered and fits the waist band. Pin the two together.

Sew the waistband to the skirt.

Thread the elastic into the waistband. Stitch the elastic together and close the waistband.

All finished.  Just pull your ribbons and gather the top skirt.

Perfect for  little girls who love to jump and twirl.

Thanks for joining me for Home Made Holidays.  Don't forget to come back tomorrow for a fun Kid craft.