Neighbor Gifts: Homemade Caramel

This is a pretty easy idea for neighbor gifts during the holidays. All you need is a large stock pot and as many cans of sweetened condensed milk as you would like to turn into caramel!

Remove the labels and boil your sweetened condensed milk for three hours! I made my own little labels. I forget to take a picture of the back. I put another label on the back that said "Made with love by the Sperrys." Read more

Holly Bloggy Christmas Event: Craft Linky Party

Welcome to the second day of the Holly Bloggy Christmas Event! Check out Simply Sweet Home for the schedule of this week's Christmas linky parties!

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Link up your Christmas crafts and don't forget to grab the button!

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Baby's First Christmas Ornament!

This is a very simple project, anyone can do it! The whole thing was around three dollars with tax. This is what you will need, and how much I paid...

2 spools- 1/4 to 1/2 inch width ribbon .47 ea.
Hot glue gun, 1 stick of glue .10
2- 2x3 peices of glass ( size of your choice) 2.00
1- printout of the side of your baby's face (needs to fit inside the glass)
1- printout of baby's first and middle name
1- printout that says "Baby's First Christmas"
scrapbook paper for the background .50
Glue stick (just a tiny bit)

I went to the dollar store and chose 2x3 frames and just took out the glass. Be sure the clean off the class with some window cleaner before you preserve your fingerprints inside the ornament forever!

For the silhouette of the baby, I just printed mine out after I got it sized right. Then I flipped it over so the white side was face up, and put a little acrylic white paint over it so the dark ink on the other side didn't show through.

Then I printed and cut out my baby's name and stuck it to a brown background with a glue stick. Then you just glue the silhouette and the name to a background color of your choice...
I chose green.






The back of the ornament will say "Baby's First Christmas" which I just typed up and printed out. I put a little criss-cross background behind it and stuck it on to my green scrapbook paper with a glue stick.














Next, you take your two pieces of clean glass and place the paper in between them.

















Then you're going to take the ribbon of your choice and begin hot gluing it around the edges of the glass to hold it all together.
















So it will look something like this...











Then I took two colors of ribbon, about two feet long and folding them in half so they were a foot long. I glued the fold to the top of the ornament and tied a bow so that it can hung on my tree!

Simple, yet elegant!




-Nicholette Read more