A few people got homemade gifts this year. It started when I had to teach how to make foil pictures at our Super Saturday. Then I started thinking, I taught everyone else how to make these pictures for Christmas presents, why don’t I make a few myself. So I got busy. Crafting started with these advent calenders. I made one for a friend, and one for myself. I was going to put the pieces from my nativity for the kids in each drawer. But, that didn’t last long. Jameson was going through the drawers and creating his own nativity. While I was making the drawers, Jameson thought his cars fit nicely in them.

Those stinkin’ boxes took forever to make. A lot longer than expected. Maybe it’s because I was doing two sets at once. It was worth it, though. They’re pretty dang cute.

Next up on the list was foil temple pictures. I missed taking a picture of the one I gave my grandparents. I put the date they were sealed in the temple on each one. The Las Vegas temple was done for my dad. I accidentally started it backwards. The temple looks the same from both ends, though, right?

The Mount Timpanogos Temple was done for my in-laws, and the St. George temple was done for my Grandma. You can’t really see the foil effects in these pictures. I think my camera has been dropped too many times, and we have the worst lighting ever. Doesn’t help with Christmas lights all around, which reflect in the glass.

For each grandparent, I made ornaments with the kids silhouettes in them. I wrote their names around the top along with the year. I decided to make some for myself , and hopefully will continue each year. Eventually, I will have a full tree of silhouette’s rather than fancy ornaments. Or maybe both. We’ll see.

I was pretty proud of these. Took me a while to figure out how to get these cut just right.

This canvas was sent to a friend getting ready to move. Moving away from family is never easy, and the first year is the worst. I speak from experience here. It does get easier, but it’s never easy.

Finally, I was looking for something to give a friend. Her hobby right now is photography. She has started taking more and more portraits, and so I was looking for presents for photographers. I saw these thought bubbles on etsy, and thought they looked pretty easy, but super fun for pictures. I’ll give Kevin most the credit here. He cut them out for me, and sanded the edges. I don’t think he minded, though, since he had a few days off from work for the holidays and was pretty bored. He worked on his projects, and then helped me with mine. Then, I just put a coat of chalk board paint on them, and waited for them to dry.

So those were the homemade gifts this year. Hope everyone who received them, liked them. If not, sorry. Maybe next year will be better.