crafty...

[thoreau]

I know it's early to bring it up - but - if you are going to do holiday crafts RIGHT - you have to get work early.


Every year - I make my friends a handmade christmas gift - and I produce a CD of Christmas/Solstice Music. I try to have these delivered by Thanksgiving - as many people put out their Christmas the day after.

Gifts are always customized for the folks they go to - like the Canadian Santa (see below) I made for Dwayne and Jud in Vancouver one year.

So this year - I have a couple of ideas....

Nutcrackers:



This project could really ramp up my customization skills. Adding pipes or cigars for my brother (bootedintexas), giving the Nutcracker a 'Phantom of the Opera' mask for Neil (mrdreamjeans), Pints of Creamstone Creamery IceCream for Mike, Kent and Brian for their first holiday together, etc.


or - I could do something more custom. I've thought of doing Marbelized Christmas Ornaments held in Manican Hands on a platform. Customizing the colours and the "sleeve" of the arm holding out the ornament. It would test my sewing skills - creating a custom "sleeve" for each project.

I usually do 10-12 of these each year.

Question: Does anyone of you crafty queers out there have a favorite project you'd like to suggest?

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Here are some Santas I made when I lived in Boise:

Comments

[jhitchin.livejournal.com]

I've hand-made Christmas cards before. I also have a papercrafting pattern that makes a sliding card. You pull from the left and another panel slides out to the right. You can affix gift cards there if you wish, for example.

I was just thinking you could make a card that the CD goes in. That might work.