Get Wrapped Up

Wrapping paper isn't just for wrapping gifts anymore. You can use it to create cute holiday decor. The Container Store has great ideas with instructions and templates to use up that beautiful gift wrap. Click on the photo above, grab some gift wrap and work on a fun paper craft today.

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Featured Artist - Needles-n-Pins Stitcheries

Today's featured artist is Colleen of Needles-N-Pins Stitcheries. Not only has Colleen been instrumental to the success of the By Your Hands blog, but she is amazingly talented. Colleen's shop offers handmade quilts, embroidery, stitcheries, handbags, totes and so much more. You can find a variety of kitchen, bath, lodge, rustic as well as primitive decor. To stop by and visit with Colleen, simply click on any of the photos below.

Pine Cone Embroidered Hand Towels

Family, Faith, Friends Stitchery

Messenger Bag

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Handmade Spotlight - Great ETSY Shops!

Great ETSY Shops

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Shamanic Feather Earrings Asymmetrical Red with stones “Song of the Wolves" – Red Grey Shamanic Feathers Feather Earrings Tribal Woodland Nastasy €20.40	Felted Necklace "Eggplant mustard" violet mustard beads wool jewelry AhClementina $32.00
HandCrafted One of a Kind Copper Fire Opal Swarovski Marquise and Crystal Seed Bead Crocheted Ring PersonalDesignz $20.00	Scarf silk handpainted, scarf Silk scarf ruffled Hand Dyed Scarf Batik Lilac silk with hand-painted. Size 19" by 71" Ready to ship. batikelena $55.55
Navy Meisen clutch /Vintage kimono clutch / Vintage Kimono bag/ hand made KimonoYamamoto $50.00	Crochet hat owl,crochet girls hat,Crochet earflap hat,knitted hat children, crochet winter hat, knitted clothes girls Deliaboutique €19.00
ON SALE Orange clown fish glass tile glass pendant, diving vacation, gift for fish lovers, choice of necklace or keychain, LittleApples $8.00	Primitive Partridge and Pears Christmas Ornaments farmersattic $17.99
Socks in wool and alpaca, knitted hand, color choice, accessory of winter for women, teenager, free delivery for EU and Switzerland lamainlefil €37.90	Crochet starfish set of 3 / decorative starfish / red starfish / yellow starfish / applique starfish / red star / ElenaGift $3.80
Amethyst cluster earrings, February birthstone earrings, nine amethyst rounds hung on each sterling silver chain Inspiredby10 $38.00	Hand Painted Angel Shepherd Sheep Ornaments | Let Heaven And Nature Sing ToletallyPainted $9.50
oilcloth bunting - Pizza time garland - 10 pizza slices made it with appliqué and patchwork oilcloth Vebo $29.50	Pastel violet petals earrings- polymer clay and sterling silver -spring jewelry- dangle earrings- woodland- nature inspired- boho- for her Feelingfimo €15.00
Fiber Art Textile Art Shelf Sitter Fiber Collage Mounted Art Fabric Art Home Decor Art Panel Contemporary Art Geometric White Black Red Gold Fibernique $59.00

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Kidz Korner - Snowman Garland

What a great craft for your kids to do to help decorate the tree or a doorway. You can even leave these out all winter long! Simple yet fun! For the complete tutorial, simply click on the photo above.

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Needles-n-Pins Stitcheries: A Vintage Christmas

If you are like me Christmas time brings back memories of when I was a child (many, many, many years ago! haha!) and all the wonderful Christmas's we had with family and friends. From waiting to open presents to the wonderful church services. 

I thought today we would check out Etsy and see what we can find to help bring back the memories of Christmas's past. 

For all of you who do sugar cookie baking, and I am one of those, do you remember using these cookie cutters like the one's from StoneBridgeWorks...wait......I still use them! :)

Remember sending out all those Christmas cards? How many of you still do this? If you do that is very nice of you to continue to do that. I for one had to stop doing this when I got so busy years ago with life and I just didn't seem to have the time to get everything else done. These cards from TheBrownPear show how pretty the Christmas cards are. 

OOOO....OOOO...who remembers these??? I do, I do!!!!! We had these on our tree and I remember watching the bubbles go up and down in them for hours. Actually I still have some of these on my tree. :)  PinkPickerParty has these. 

Do you remember these aluminum trees? I do. I had a neighbor who had a big one in her front window and it had blue bulbs on it and she also had a light shining on it. I always thought how pretty it looked. It was a little bigger than this one from PennsVintage, but this one would sit nice on your table. 

Oh my......I could go on and on finding all this Christmas vintage, but I need to get busy making those sugar cookies with my vintage cookie cutters. :)

Have a wonderful week and enjoy the season!

Colleen :)

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