Handmade Christmas

I've been meaning to do handmade Christmas gifts for years.  Once in a while, I will crank out one or two handmade gifts, but this year has made it more of a necessity than past years.  

I'll admit it: I'm totally stoked about it!

I have a soap making class with some friends that will cost me $20 and make enough soap to gift out to family and neighbors, as well as enough to cover us for the next 6 months.  I have ornaments for various Godparents, cotton kitchen towels to crochet for John's coworkers, winter gear for the kids (hats and scarves) to crochet as well, and a few dress shirts to sew for John. 

I revisited my Pinterest page for gifts and found a few more things that I'm excited to make:

1. Constellation cards for Kid #1, a major lover of all things galactic.

2. Animal wall busts for the kids, likely in various forms (shark, dinosaur, unicorn, bear).

3. Cute slippers for the whole family.

4. A little something for myself. :-)

I'm also excited to be getting rid of all of this yarn that's been hanging around here.  Decluttering and giving gifts... awesome!