Craftaholic Gift Exchange

Once again I participated in the Craftaholic Anonymous' gift exchange.

My exchange partner had a little baby girl and named Annabelle. I made this for her, in her nursery colors.

(It turned out ok..but looked better in my head.)

4th of July was just around the corner, so I made things she could use for the holiday; patriotic cake banner, "sparkler" cupcake toppers, recipes for a BBQ and instructions for baking a surprise flag cake.

I had planned on making her a banner like this..

and some of these decorative rag balls. 

But I ran out of time for the banner..and fell in love with the rag balls and kept them for myself. 

Shhhh..don't tell my exchange partner.

Christmas Eve

After reading the Christmas Nativity story, we passed out our family exchange gifts. Abree received a cute fabric flower headband from Rylee.

Notice the one Rylee is wearing in her hair...ya, sorta like that. :)
Abree gave Rylee a flat iron holder... made from a pot holder.

Treyson was given a pom-pom/marshmallow shooter from Taylee.

My gift to Taylee.

Treyson came up with this gift idea all on his own. He traced the Jazz logo onto nice watercolor paper, then painted and framed it for Jason's desk at work.

Grandpa Waite received Stampede basketball tickets from Jason.

Jason made the ticket holder for his part of "homemade". :)

I received a chalkboard sign from Dad. He had Amber help him come up with the idea and make it. I LOVE it...and have used it for many occasions.

Gift Exchange

I'm doing another on-line gift exchange through "Craftaholics Anonymous".

My exchange partner mentioned (with the exception of Christmas), 4th of July was her favorite holiday.

I hope she meant it, because that's the direction I went. My idea was to create a "party pack"... everything you need for a successful 4th of July celebration.First thing I created was a red, white and blue banner for her mantle (or where ever she wants to put it). Next, I saw this awesome flag cake on-line, so printed off the picture and directions on how to make it, along with the cream cheese frosting recipe.Because I'm kinda banner-crazy, I made a flag cake banner to top the cake. I also made these firework cupcake toppers, just in case she wanted to go in the cupcake direction instead.

I gathered several yummy summer salad recipes that could go with her 4th of July BBQ dinner. And Tootsie Rolls, just because they were so festive and cute.

I hope she enjoys it.

Can't wait to see what's coming my way. :)

Handmade Gift Exchange

"Craftaholics Anonymous" is having a

"Handmade Gift Exchange".

Anyone interested in swapping, go to her site and sign up http://diaryofacraftaholic.blogspot.com/2010/11/dont-forget.html. Today's the last day, so hurry.

I've done several of these types of swaps or exchanges via the internet. They are SO much fun! Try it... you might like it. :)