$5 DIY Christmas Gifts, Handmade, Thrifted and Homemade

The foreigner is trying to beat the system with her

gifts

, so I'm going to try to find some

gifts

that would be good for teachers, coworkers, friends, neighbors, hostess gifts, all that and no, my thought is that I don't want them. cost over ten dollars each, in fact, I think I could even make them for free if I'm really ambitious and don't mind making things, so first of all I'm going to make a wreath, this one is for me. friend, so these gifts are not, oh, we have a broken umbrella. I just have a simple one, it's not a form, but it's a wire frame that I bought at Dollar Tree for a wreath, so I'm going out to my garden.

It's actually pretty stormy, it's not raining too much right now, so this is a good opportunity for me to go out and grab some branches and things that we're going to try to make to make a wreath that actually costs, you know, a dollar, 25 bucks, because that's all I needed was just the piece of wire, okay, this is what I'm talking about. You get them at Dollar Tree. 18 inches. I have a holly bush that does not have prickly leaves, but has a red color. berries so you can just load my laundry basket with them and work on this thank you, foreignly I say, I'm afraid it's been a while in the foreign darkness, now I'm going to be working on some candles while the branches come closer to the wood stove , so this is something that I recommend all year round, is actually keeping your eyes open for really nice and really interesting times.

If you find that the tens don't hold the melted wax, you can always seal the seam at the bottom of the container. with Gorilla Glue that's what I did with these and then I love these glass jelly jars. I think they are very cute. I always grab them when I see them, they make very sweet candles, we will use soy and I am going to melt them. soybeans in a hot water bath and add my aroma simmer a pot of water it's a disposable cake pan on top of that water and add a pound of soybeans you're going to heat this to 160 and then mix in two ounces or two teaspoons of your essential oil stir for a minute and take your sticker and your wick and center what is inside your container you need to start pouring, stabilize your wick.

Here's a little extra touch for gifting candles that I think you'll really like. the way you don't have to make your own candles clearly you can buy something second hand or something you like in a store, but this is a fun idea, any small glass jar you have, people you will use it for matches, matches for that you can Buy white matches for weddings, you can buy them on Amazon, but I like to get these matches. You get a set of 10 boxes, I mean it's over 300 matches and I buy them at Walmart for less than two dollars so you can get the white ones. or you can just get these, so fill your jar to the top with your matches, okay.

I've seen jars like this in little gift shops and they just have a little bit of sandpaper and a circle of sandpaper on the bottom, which I thought was really cute, but I've tried it and I can't get them to work, everything works. What I can do is sand all the green part and finish with a stick, so I think if you want this to be really functional and not just pretty. We'll need to cut the little strip from your matchbox and hot glue a section of that to the bottom of the jar. Alright. I'm back to work on the crown.

These are nice and dry, so what am I going to do? What I'm going to do is collect little clusters, the berries are falling off really bad, but I'm going to collect little clusters and then I'm going to attach them to my frame, foreigner, foreigner, so keep holding your wreath and then at the end you can put more or you can. Look, I don't know if I wanted to trim this or just put it back in, but okay, now it's time for the tape. I took two pieces of brown ribbon and tied them into a regular bow and then I had this shorter piece. that's very wide double satin and I just put it in there like Tails, there's actually about six, there's six tails going down, so I'm going to stick a little bit of wire in here and I can easily attach it to the wreath now with this wire and then I'm just going to cut out the tails I want to make

homemade

candies I've been wanting to make them for a long time and we're going to wrap them in wax paper I always think it looks very elegant and it's a very simple recipe so let's get started first of all.

I see I need some corn syrup that I never buy, so I'm going to make my own corn syrup substitute and have all of these recipes linked. I'll put it in the description below, but once. I make my corn syrup and then I can make this caramel recipe that I printed out thank you foreign foreigner and I have this crescent roll recipe that was my mom's and it's very, very sentimental, it's multi-generational, we use it all the time on Thanksgiving Thank you and Christmas, so this recipe is written in his handwriting and I no longer have it with me, so it's very special.

They are going to scan it and probably enlarge it. I'll check it out but I have transfer sheets that you can iron on so I eat the Jolie one and then I bought this one it's a Target brand the up and up brand they both really work well so I'm going to put the recipe on one of these and then I just have a piece of linen that I'm cutting and I'm going to hem it. I'm cutting the size 24 inches by 18 and then I'm just going to put a simple hem around it and we're going to iron this foreign roll recipe to make it dark again and I always run into this when we film in the winter so I'll come back another day and continue working on these gifts, but one thing I'm probably going to work on tonight is a washcloth.

Now I wanted to tell you that you can. Of course, second-hand rugs. I actually love doilies for my tea towels because they are beautiful and then they have a bit of texture to them so people don't use them as much for decoration anymore so when you find them grab them to buy some tea towels. I could give this away. I also want to knit one. I've never done it, so I have a YouTube video that I'll link to, but I'd like to knit one. I only have this cord that I made macrame with. and I thought I'd see if I can make a tea towel out of it.

I'm trying to use things I had and then I have this crochet hook, what number is it? It's nine millimeters, which is probably too big for a cloth, but I'm still going to try it. I used this for my pom pom garland that I made last year or the year before anyway. I'll link it for you too because it's a lovely DIY and I've given it as gifts before too. Okay, I'm going to work on this since it's getting dark. See you soon, foreigner, so the candies are ready to cut. I'm going to cut them into a little bit, oh, they're about three-quarters of an inch squares and we.

I'm just going to cut wax paper that I like about three inches wide. I took it out three inches wide and then I cut it into three sections and we're going to wrap our candy and give it this little vintage look. It looks very European, very elegant. And sweet, the trick with wax paper is to keep it from tearing when you twist the ends, you have to pinch it first and then twist it carefully so it doesn't tear, so the next gift I'm giving are these cookie cutters, they are very trendy , TRUE? now there are Dutch recipes, there are German recipes, but you can take different basic shortbread and gingerbread cookie recipes and you press the dough into these molds and make beautiful cookies, so I bought the pine cone mold, they are not very expensive, so I mixed the cookie dough is cooling in the foreign refrigerator the last big thing is to make minestrone soup, you can choose any soup, it's just what I had on hand for the ingredients, but that's cooking there.

I made a big batch of that and I can then let it cool and put it in quart glass jars, wrap them in a nice foreign loaf from Costco, so two loaves for six dollars I could have made them to be even more economical, but This is a good trick if you're trying to do it. This one is good for the neighbors, so when Christmas is coming up and everyone is running around and trying to wrap things and the last thing on their mind is a nice dinner, that's when you show up with your jars of soup and beautiful bread and that's always a great gift for The Neighbors Foreign Foreign from today's video I love making gifts for people.

I love challenging myself with prices and trying to do DIY things. Every year I learn things I didn't know before. New products. New techniques. So challenge yourself this year. and see what you can come up with to reduce your Christmas budget a little and increase your skill level, take care guys, I'll see you next week abroad.