Whipped Honey diy

Morning!

Looking for a fun quick and easy homemade gift for family, friends or co-workers?

These are so fun to make!

Get yourself some small ball jars, some honey and some ribbon or these cute rubber ribbons.

You can find these Michael's...

They look like this......

Aren't they adorable! 

I printed out these cute labels for the tops, but you can easily 

hand write homemade tags...

Now for the how-to's

Start with at least 3 cups of honey, put

into your stand up or hand mixer and mix for at least 1 minute 

until white and fluffy.

This is how it looks at the beginning

I purchased my honey from Costco

Now pour it into your jars, you can see how much lighter 

it is when it's whipped.

Make sure and wipe down the jars and put your lids on.

Add your labels and ribbons and now it's time to gift them!

Diy Dollar Tree frame makeover

I found these little frames complete with the beading at the Dollar Tree

and thought they would be great for a makeover. I got online and searched for a 

image of a lamb and found this one with three little cuties. 

Grab some glue and an image for a makeover. 

Print out your image and cut to fit,  I used Tombow glue

to attach it to the inside of the frame. 

Looks too cute! 

Perfect little christmas picture! 

Christmas packaging idea

Happy sunday!

Grab yourself a bag, some candy canes, some greens.

Let's get started!

Using your xacto knife, in the center of the bag cut two slits 

on each side to create a pocket for your candy canes. 

 

Slide some ribbon through the bag and tie a bow.  Now add the creme

christmas ornament and it looks evetter!

Fill the little pocket with some candy canes and add a little piece of  cedar greens 

That's it!  

You could also add some bells or pom poms to t he ribbon too.

 

Hot Cocoa whip cream bombs

Happy friday friends!

This is fun!

Give it a try,  you need some whip cream in a can, some cookie cutters,

they can be plastic or aluminum, and cookie sheets.  

Line your cookie sheet with parchment paper and lay the cookie cutters

bottom side up on the pan.

What are we making you ask?

These cute hot cocoa whip cream bombs!

Take your whip cream and add it to your cookie cutters generously

to fill the cutter to the top like you see mine are.

Now for the fun,

add any sprinkles you'd like, I happen to have on hand these

christmas sprinkles, but use what ever you like. 

Now for the magic,

pop them in the freezer for at least 2 or more hours or til you need them.

Take them out and pop them out of the cutters and drop them into

your hot cocoa!  so fun!

I totally forgot to take a picture of them in our mugs!

The are so cute and festive!

Give them a try! 

Out of the freezer ready to use.....

Christmas wine bottle bouquets

Happy wednesday!

Here's a fun and easy way to dress up any type of bottle for the holidays to take to a dinner or to just gift to a friend.  Also looks so pretty on the sparkling cider bottles too! 

I found these floral baubles on Amazon that are just the right size to use,

you can go wild with loading it up with a lot of greens or flowers or just keep

it on the simple side. 

They measure 2" across and 2 1/2" high.

There are two ways you can attach them to the bottles...

You can see here on the back of the floral green that they

can be stuck right to the bottle by removing the adhesive backing,

OR you can run ribbon through the sides to be able to tie them

to the bottle. 

Like you see here....

I cut the greens for these bouquets from the yard which included

fresh rosemary, cedar, holly and some added greens.

I went to the grocery store and bought the little mums too

add and had the christmas balls on hand. 

To make these start by sticking the christmas balls in the center then the longer stems into the top and sides of the floral base and just keep going. 

There is no wrong way, the more the add the beauty just

happens!  Add your mini mums at the very end.

I tried to find only small flowers to use instead of larger ones as

this is a small bouquet.

Have fun trying these! 

Christmas treat holders diy

Happy monday!

Don't throw those empty containers from Costco away!

You know the ones, candy holders, peanut holders, you know what I mean.

I always keep them for something.  In this case it was to make these little holiday gifts filled with the chex muddie buddies. 

These are easy to make, I take extra left over Christmas cards and used

them to cover the label on the container.  I cut it to fit and corner punched

the sides and glued it to the front. 

ready to gift.......

extra christmas cards...save them, use them! 

Flourish annual gathering

Happy saturday!

This is our Flourish through the ministry small group that I co-lead with my ginger sister Cheryl.  We spend two sessions together, one in the fall and one in the spring on different studies written by our mentor/leader Marjie Schaefer.  

We small group loves to gather at the end of our fall study for some holiday cheer.

There is always lots of fun, karaoke and crafts. 

They were all working on fresh bottle bouquets,

they all turned out great! 

my karaoke homegirl! 

ginger sisters! 

enjoyed all our time together,  now for a break til after christmas!

Vintage Santa mugs

I have been looking at and wanting to find any vintage santa mugs or pitchers.

I have searched everywhere only to find that they are beyond expensive, like $150 on up!

While shopping at Hobby Lobby I came across this large santa pitcher.  

I was on there on their 50% off sale making it only $10! 

I grabbed some Dover White spray paint and sprayed two

coats of the paint on the pitcher.  It turned out great! 

It turned out just how I have envisioned!

Looks so good next to the little santa mugs