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Day 23: 24 Days of Green Christmas – Green Gift Basket Ideas

Christmas is in two days! We’ve covered numerous crafty ways to decorate and make gifts but what if you are not the crafting or the baking type? Or you are running out of time? No worries. Here are some green goodies that you can package in your own creative way and give as a gift basket. Disclaimer: I am including these photos as reference. I am not suggesting that you [...]

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Day 22: 24 Days of Green Christmas Crafts – Recycled Paper Bows

I’m sure you’ve had this happened to you before. It’s almost midnight on Christmas Eve and you are tired and cranky because you were all over the world looking for that toy that your child has been wishing for. You finally find it in the last toy store, buy it, and you figured, you can wrap it yourself when you get home. The cookies and milk are waiting for Santa [...]

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Day 21: 24 Days of Green Christmas – Caramels as Edible Gifts

I was going to include this Apple Cider Caramels recipe in last weekend’s baking post but I didn’t get a chance to take photos. And good thing I rushed to take these today because they were being gobbled up preeeet…ty fast. I usually make Chocolate Butterscotch Peanut Toffee as holiday gifts. But I wanted to try something different this year for an edible gift. And being that there’s apple cider (fruit) [...]

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Day 20: 24 Days of Christmas – Shopping on Etsy

Personalized Christmas Stockings by Sunshinedaydream4u I took a break from crafting and baking and browsed Etsy today. And I found some amazing crafters who hand-make items and as always, they blew my mind. There are some really really talented crafters on Etsy and this is just a glimpse of how creative and skillful they are. I would love to own some of these. OK, maybe even just one. *Click the photos [...]

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Day 19: 24 Days of Green Christmas Crafts – Paper Snow Flakes

Christmas is less than a week away folks. If you bought gifts, are you done with wrapping them yet? Look at this pretty paper snow flake you can make out of any scrap paper. Isn’t this a great way to decorate your gifts? Howaboutorange has neat tutorials on making snowflakes like this and other more intricate ones that can be used as gift wrapping decoration or to just hang and [...]

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Day 18: 24 Days of Green Christmas – Easy as a Sweet Potato Pie

I wish life was as easy as a pie…..a sweet potate pie, to be specific. But life is not that simple but this pie is. And since we are baking this weekend, I wanted to share this adapted recipe from Joy the Baker. I didn’t want to use canned evaporated milk so I substituted with whipping cream and adjusted the sugar content. And you can use conventional sweet potatoes, unlike [...]

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Day 17: 24 Days of Green Christmas – NY Times Chocolate Chip Cookies

I was looking for a recipe on the internet. And you know how that goes. I meander through various food blogs, drool and gawk at scrumptious food photos. Then, from there, I click the links on the blog to ‘other’ food blogs and pretty soon, I forget what recipe I was looking for in the first place. But I end up with a newly found delectable treat and I am [...]

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Day 16: 24 Days of Green Christmas Crafts – Ruffled T-Shirt Scarf

As the weather gets colder, scarf is “a must” accessory for me. While I love cowls, it’s just as easy to throw on a scarf and run out the door. I need to protect my neck from the chill, otherwise, I am not a happy camper in the cold. And since I made a t-shirt hat yesterday, I decided to use up the white t-shirt remnants to make a scarf. [...]

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Day 15: 24 Days of Green Christmas Crafts – T-Shirt Hat

Do we love upcycling t-shirts or what? We made t-shirt fabric yarn, a memory quilt and a Christmas tree skirt. Today, we are going to make a hat. And why not? We have plenty of t-shirts and the soft well worn t-shirts make great fabric for a cozy hat as a gift….especially, if you are using his/her favorite shirt to make his/her favorite hat! And, its easy peasy! How to Make [...]

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Day 14: 24 Days of Green Christmas – Edible Gift Ideas

Before I talk about my favorite type of gifts to receive, give – food – I have to tell you about an interesting phenomenon that’s been happening on my blog for about ten days…..no, it’s not the “24 Days of Green Christmas Crafts”…although it is a phenomenal series! Beginning of December, Fox News published an article titled, “7 foods you should never eat” from Prevention magazine – an article I posted [...]

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Day 13: 24 Days of Green Christmas Crafts – Paper Leaf Wreath

Remember the poinsettia wreath made out of toilet paper tubes on the Day 1 of this series? Even since I saw the wreath, I have been fiddling around with my collection of toilet paper tubes to make something out of them. At first, I thought I can make some words out of them and insert christmas lights in the holes to light them up, like a billboard. But the tubes [...]

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Day 12: 24 Days of Green Christmas Crafts – Gift Card Holder Ornament

WOW! We’ve made it half way through “24 Days of Green Christmas Crafts”! Time flies when you are having fun! I can’t believe it’s 12 days before Christmas already. Can you? I hope you are having a blast making these crafts as I am. And thanks for spreading the word about this series. We are getting some nice visitors and I am so glad you are helping to promote green [...]

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Day 11: 24 Days of Green Christmas Crafts – Hoopster Snowman

Ever since I saw Betz White’s Hoopie the Snowman, I knew I was going to make it some day. But I don’t felt wool so I had to think of another way to dress this little guy. Then, I realized that I had a bag – ok, a basket – full of old t-shirts; some whole and some remnants from the T-Shirt Memory Quilt I made. I figured, there are [...]

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Day 10: 24 Days of Green Christmas Crafts – Christmas Stockings

What’s Christmas without stockings, right? We used to put little gifts for 12 days leading up to Christmas when the kids were young. They’d run down to check the stockings every morning, as if it’s Christmas morning. And I’ll be honest, the kids never noticed the stockings for their beauty. They just shoved their short arms and reached down to see what were in them. But sadly, now that they [...]

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Day 9: 24 Days of Christmas – Chicken or Turkey or Mushroom Pot Pie

With all the crafting and blogging, I am always short on time for real dinner lately. But this life saver of a “Dinner in One Pot” meal is my all time favorite. Of course, I don’t eat meat anymore so I’ll scoop out a bowl before I add the meat and finish it off, while standing over the stove. But what’s really really great about this dish is that you [...]

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Day 8: 24 Days of Green Christmas Crafts – Fish Terrarium

What is better than giving someone a living organism as a gift? Give this awesome terrarium for anyone who knows how to shake a salt shaker. That’s really all it takes to take care of this little neat guy. There is no maintenance and you don’t need to walk it or groom it. Ok, you’ll need to change the water when it gets dirty but that’s it! One of my [...]

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Day 7: 24 Days of Green Christmas Crafts – Burlap Ornament

Wow. It’s been one week since we started the “24 Days of Green Christmas” series already. Are you tired yet? I hope not. I’m just getting warmed up! So, let’s continue with crafting, shall we? For today’s craft, I want to share a post I wrote for Crafting a Green World back in October. These shabby chic ornaments used up leftover burlap after making trays and baskets so I was [...]

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