Home for Christmas with gifts and little ideas. :)

Hi my friends.

Guess you are all busy, busy, busy doing the last preparations for Christmas.

I'm preparing the last minute gifts, wrapping and making tags. I also need to plan some more cookies and what to cook for this christmas. :)

Today I'll share some affordable, heartwarming last-minute gifts.

The snow and FROST came to Oslo this week, and it is freezing cold ( - 10 degrees Celcius). I have a fire going on in my oven upstairs and downstairs - otherwise we'll freeze our toes off. ;)

This reminded me I must make sure my friends don't freeze too. I have gathered some smaller wodden sticks and tied them together with a pine branch and a matchstick box I decorated. Ready for a cozy fire.

This might seems like a strange gift to those of you that live in a warmer climate....but you know....in cold Norway we allways appreciate a cozy fire :)

Here is another fun and eartfriendly little gift for smaller kids. I found this idea at my friend Gigis blog, and I was delighted. I really LOVE the idea of reuse old crayons and make cute new ones that han be used by new little artists. :) You can find a great how-to tutorial on Gigis blog :)

The kids had their last day at school today, and they all wanted to bring presents for their friends This year - as we use to every year - we made some homemade gifts. And we chose to make homemade soaps and homemade raspberry candy.
Soap is easy to make, and the kids love to add scent and color and put the melted soap in the mould, and then take them out and wrap them in celophane when the soap has cooled.

Home made candy is really fun to make too. But it is WARM! so be aware. This is not for small kids. I have made candy with my kids for ceveral years and they love it.

This is a super affordable and pretty fast made gift. Perfect for little friends :)

Every year at this time I'm in need of cute gifttags, but I never seem to find time to make some.... So I decided to use leftover tags from 3ndypapir patterned paper, and then I bought some cute traditional scandinavian ornaments at IKEA and added with the tags
This serves as a extra gift too :)

And for some special presents I decided to make this super cute homemade bow.

Here is a step-by step how to make it:

Cut 8 stripes of patterned paper 3/4 inch X 4 1/2 inch
and one strip 3/4 inch X 3 1/2 inch

Using the 8 longer pieces, loop each paper, and glue to secure.

Adhere two loops together with adeshive in the middle.

glue two pieces together to make the first layer of the bow.

Glue the remaining two sets of loops together in the same way.

Adhere the two layers together.

Make a little circle of the shorter piece of paper and add it in the middle of the bow.

Voila! Bow is complete!

You can make a larger bow with one more layer too. :)

Thank you for popping by! And have a wonderful last week before Christmas :)

xo