Christmas Crafts

I've been in a crafting mood lately and what better time than Christmas??

1. Photo Ornaments - unfortunately I didn't take a picture of them before I wrapped them up. But, I plan on making two more for myself and my mom. I got the idea from a catalog, but at $78 a piece . . . I don't think so! I printed out this cute photo of the girls on regular paper and then decoupaged it to a cream color porcelain ornaments that I found at Michael's. I then outlined the photos with a gold paint pen. 

2. Advent calendar - I have grand plans to make this elf one! My sewing skills are lacking and time was running out so I looked around at some different blogs, combined a few different ideas and a free template and came up with this:

A square for each day and on the back is an activity to do for the day. The activities include playing with red and green play dough, color a Christmas picture, watch a Christmas movie, make a Christmas treat, do something kind for someone, etc. Just simple fun things. I didn't include "read a Christmas book" to the cards because we plan on reading one everyday anyway.

3. For our Relief Society Christmas meeting we doing a progressive dinner and giving each sister a gift. The gift this year is a tile. Amy and Jessica (RS councilors) did the vinyl words on a Cricut and transfered to the tiles. Then they dropped them off at my house so I could add the ribbon hangers to the back. I'm going to display them in a basket (still trying to decide which one) so the sisters can pick them up on their way out from the progressive dinner.