Home-made Christmas craft, food, and gift ideas – many of these form part of a series of blog posts I wrote for Christmas 2012, ‘Blog Advent‘.
Christmas crafts and decorations
- Counting Down the Days – making an ‘everlasting’ fabric Advent calendar
- Handmade Christmas – decorated glass baubles
- Handmade Christmas – cracking crackers!
- Deck the Halls – quick and easy Christmas bunting
- Like A Candle In The Dark – homemade advent candles (Blog Advent 1)
- All Things Bright and Beautiful – organza and lights window decoration (Blog Advent 3)
- Star Of Wonder – simple twig and twine decorations (Blog Advent 4)
- A Festive Welcome – recycled fabric Christmas wreath (Blog Advent 7)
- Can’t See The Tree For The Lights – invisible outdoor decorations (Blog Advent 8)
- Get Stuffed – filled glass bauble decorations (Blog Advent 11)
- Life’s A Beach – driftwood decorations (Blog Advent 19)
- Light ‘Em Up – candles in Christmas trees (Blog Advent 20)
Home-made Christmas gift ideas
- Homemade Gifts – hyacinth bulb and hydrogel beads in a jar
- Waxing Frugal – making a recycled chunk candle
- We’re On A Roll – recycled gift box (Blog Advent 5)
Christmas food & drink
- Last Minute Christmas – perfect giblet stock
- Smoked Trout – so simple, so tasty, and all home-made
- Christmas is Coming, the gin is getting pink (sloe gin recipe)
- Sugar and Spice – Christmas baking, seasons and memories
- No Smoke Without Fire – Boxing Day ham and Christmas Bacon (Blog Advent 2) (home curing and smoking)
- Oh Crumbs! home-made breadcrumbs for your Christmas cooking (Blog Advent 12)
- The Icing On the Cake – how I decorate my Christmas cake (Blog Advent 17)
- Take Your Medicine – my perfect hot toddy (Blog Advent 18)
- Pressing The Flesh – home-made coarse farmhouse pate (Blog Advent 23)
- Stocking Fillers – perfect home-made giblet stock (Blog Advent 24)
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Wow! This is fab 🙂 What a great resource! And how busy you have been..!
Thank you Jen. I love Christmas (though probably working it this year – oh well, time shift to Boxing Day!)
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