Hand-made Christmas

We made special Christmas gifts for my brother-in-law's family this year.  Again we had help with the sewing and wood-cutting, I just came up with the plan.

This was for the one year old, as she grows and learns to do the different kinds of fasteners.

This is a thrifted box with two games in one. My dad cut the blocks and we sanded them and wood-burned words on them. It was patterned after a fun scrabble sentence cube game from the 70's that I found at the thrift store a while back.

The other game is an even older game from Britain that we adapted and made out of walnut shells and some other thrifted items.

The last thing in our christmas package was actually some toys I was returning after they had accidentally been sent to us in boxes of hand-me-downs. I should have returned them months and months ago, but I kept forgetting.  I found a cute way to make up for that though, and gave them back "with interest."

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