Fun inexpensive gifts to make for Christmas

Yesterday I promised to share a couple of ideas that you could make for Christmas.

Aren't these polar fleece pillows adorable? You will need 1 yard for each pillow

I purchased 1 yard of light and 1 of dark blue to make 2 toned pillows. 30x30 30x36

or buy 1 1/4 yds for 36x36 sqyuares. You will cut 4-6 inch fringe, I like mine long and next time would buy a little extra fabric to make longer fringe.

Notice the snowman pillow is only half tied on the top.

The left side is not cut yet, so you could see how to cut the corners.

You need to cut a square out of each corner , then clip a fringe edge.

Tie each "set" of fringe in the same method so your edge will be uniform.

I left 1/3 of the pillow untied to put in poly fill for stuffing, then tied it when i had the pillow

stuffed with just enough "stuff"to be cozy.

The "critters" are hand appliqued on. You can have solid pillows, buy printed fleece,or applique on something you would like. When i bought this fabric, a big football type guy was buying a whole bolt each of green and yellow . I KNEW what he was going to make, and so did the other women in the store. A large he man sized comfy DUCK "snuggie" with fringe. He nearly had several women flatten him, so they could take away his two bolts, when they saw what he was going to do. Women can overpower ANYTHING when they are in shopping or sewing mode.

I'm surprised the feathers weren't flying, it was duck "season" .

The ducks (U of O) had just won the civil war...

Get this the fabric was 1/2 off at our local JoAnn's plus he had a coupon...WOW...

Now for a very fun kitchen gift..what else at farm funnies but cowgirl cookies?

For fun I followed a tweet just out of curiosity and wound up setting up a whole cool fun site.

FREE is good....and one of my choices for my site was a link to Bakerella. WOW I will have to limit my time there, I love to even read recipes...

I am sure going to make some of the cake pops , maybe for our Christmas Birthday cake?

Go to http://ppl.blastoffnetwork.com/bettyframe scroll down to the Bakerella button

click on it then scroll to the cowgirl cookies...

This is a recipe for a very attractive cookie in a jar gift. YUM....

( several years ago I made up about 30 similar jars for gifts for hubby's fellow

workers plus a few extra ones for several family and friends .. a very BIG hit!) .

I suggest putting cow "spots" on the cowgirl cookie jars, unless you are a purist ( reg. JERSEY's) like our family.

Tomorrow, the bath fizzies.

SO smile,put on some Christmas music and get to bakin'....