What are you planning on making for Christmas 2003?

**MANDERS** · 01-04-2003, 11:53 PM

I know I'll be making more candles and mixes and probably more scrap book pages for my parents scrapbooks.I'll probably make one for dmil and journal jars for dmil,dfil,dmoms,ddad and my friends mom.I really want to make a few personalized christmas yard signs for each family and ornaments for the kids.

**mom2matty** · 01-05-2003, 01:05 AM

I don't have a lot of ideas but one I do have is to crochet a blanket for my Mom. She has been trying to teach me to crochet for a very long time and I just haven't been interested in it. I am learning right now and I will surprise her!! She will be thrilled.

I want to make my own Christmas cards this year too!!!

I am also going to try the no sew fleece blankets that are really popular right now, and I saw a very cute pattern (posted here) for really cute fleece hats and I want to make a few for my nieces!

**MANDERS** · 01-06-2003, 07:34 AM

I got the neatest Hm gift this year.Actualy first one I've gotten in a long time.My grandmother made quillows.First it looks like a pillow and you can pull the quilt out.We got 4.I love them great for traveling.

**CAGmomof2** · 01-06-2003, 12:01 PM

I will be baking more Christmas Goodies for Christmas 2003.
My Dad just found out he is a Diabetic so I have to find some Good Christmas Goodies that he can eat that are Sugar Free.
I will also be trying my hands at making Homemade PotHolders Sewing them together by hand.
That is all I can think of at this time.

**graci42** · 01-09-2003, 03:02 PM

I picked up some Echro yarn and I'm crocheting 3-D Snowflake ornaments. If I connect them properly and starch them....we'll see how they turn out.

I am going to sit down this weekend and make out my 2003 Christmas Master List...I'm not looking forward to the "blank paper"...eeeeek....Though it will go with my "blank" brain!

**Miss Kitty** · 02-03-2003, 09:59 AM

I hope to make some button necklaces, hopefully I can get going on making some soaps. I will also be making some cut and tye fleece blankets and pillows.

**QuilterMom** · 02-03-2003, 11:42 AM

I have no idea! I have plenty of clear glass ball ornaments so I can make something with those. I also want to get ds's snowman quilt made this year (but it won't be a Christmas present since he knows about it). I may put together some mix gifts this year, some cake in a mug gifts, or some scented coasters.

Mommyof2lildivas · 02-03-2003, 12:13 PM

I'm doing a scrapbook for my best friend and making our Christmas cards this year. I don't know what else yet.

**Kate117** · 02-03-2003, 01:12 PM

I will be making soap and candles, gifts in a jar, as soon as I figure out how to crochet I will be starting on some afghans, some scrapbooks(thank goodness for the talented ladies here so I can learn some of this stuff

) and some of those no sew fleece blankets and pillows.

**sunshine** · 02-03-2003, 02:23 PM

I know I'll make a quiet book for at least one great nephew, some plastic canvas "paper" dolls for some great nieces, and probably some puppets and Barbie doll clothes for some as well.

I'll be making some afghans, pillows, potholders and plaemats for a few adults on my list as well.

My co-workers always get Christmas ornaments- so I'll be working on those too.

**faith17** · 02-04-2003, 01:43 PM

I will be makeing one or two scrap books for my mother and father . I will also be makeing some mixes. Amdnda had made some for 2002 and I had helped on some and gave some to my fater and step sister, they loved them . So I am hopeing I will be makeing some for 2003 also.

**pita1213** · 02-04-2003, 07:14 PM

my sister wants some sequence and beaded ornaments. i made her and my mother each one last year and she really liked it. she sent me some soap stuff that she hasn't gotten around to using so i'll use that to make her some soaps. i'll also make some paper star ornaments and some other ones that are a little hard to describe. basically you cut out a bunch of circles and trace a triangle on tehm then score the lines so you can fols flaps. then you glue them together. martha stewart has a kit to make them with but you can make them from old christmas cards.
i'll make cookies for her husband and get him an astronomy themed calender.
i'm not sure what to do for my folks yet.
dd is going to get a crocheted blanket, but i'll wait till september to do that since she will be in school then.
not sure what to do for ds yet either.

**Heather** · 02-04-2003, 07:24 PM

I've made my list and am checking it twice!:santa:

~scrapbooking
~4 block quilts (maybe fancier ones once I learn more from CJ

)
~more baked items than last year
~gifts in a jar, jams, canning from the summer
~gift baskets - setting them up in my closet and adding to them all year
~ornaments
~placemats and napkins
~got a great deal on after Christmas specials, fabric Santa, reindeer, snowman for the door, advent calendar (just have to get sewing!)
~tin lanterns
~I am getting much better at simpler Christmas' but have a ways to go...I figure if I start earlier the better it will be!

**ArkansasLady** · 02-20-2003, 04:44 PM

welllll I have been thinking about this alot...I think I will be making a scrapbook for my MIL this year...also for my neices and nephew I saw the cutest animal pillows made from square pillows, going to do them...going to make some handpieced and hand quilted placemats and table runner for my SIL that is all I have planned for right now..
Cindy