This combines really with yesterday's (non)post about Christmas Shopping.
One year, when we were really hard up, only the ladies in the family got presents, because my mother and I could make those. A really neat idea! and I was only small, so it didn't seem tawdry. We got jamjars (the fat little sort), washed them out, then filled them with different coloured cotton-wool balls for removing make-up. At that time, it was very fashionable to have bobbles on everything, so we stuck small pieces of coloured lace on the lids and put a strip of bobbles around it.
Does that count as craft?
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One year, when we were really hard up, only the ladies in the family got presents, because my mother and I could make those. A really neat idea! and I was only small, so it didn't seem tawdry. We got jamjars (the fat little sort), washed them out, then filled them with different coloured cotton-wool balls for removing make-up. At that time, it was very fashionable to have bobbles on everything, so we stuck small pieces of coloured lace on the lids and put a strip of bobbles around it.
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Does that count as craft?
The Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories (ACCM) allows you to share your family’s holiday history twenty-four different ways during December! Learn more at http://adventcalendar.geneabloggers.com.
That is cute and how wonderful that it was home-made
ReplyDeleteAnd that is what has stuck with me over the years - not so much the expensive, boughten things...
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