22.05.12

If you bent lasting holiday memories, why not BE the memory by giving homemade gifts this year? There are three ways you can go:

Hyperbolize something really cool that they’ll treasure forever; Try to make something unquestionably cool and when it bombs, explain loudly how it was supposed to look Win an egregiously bad gift on purpose and then watch to see if the recipient thinks you’re serious; if so, disport oneself along until you can’t keep your face straight.

Here are some suggestions for gifts that you can create at domicile. They’re deliberately eccentric so people won’t know if it’s art or calamity, and you’ll have a blast either way.

Wrap Music

First of all, let’s go truly na with homemade wrapping paper that will last generations. Buy a Scott’s soft-backed drop cloth in the paint section of your home reform centre (about $12 for (4’ x 12’) and convert it to wrapping rag by mixing and spreading your half-used cans of interior latex daub with fabulous abandon all over the paper surface.

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by Linda Johnson

I retired from the Telecommunications question in 2002 and moved to Myrtle Brook Oregon. Six months later my Aunt Bonnie Gregory and I opened Ye Olde Art Shoppe. We assembly art classes for Umpqua Community College coupled with our own classes. We provide indulge to our artists in whatever they want from us. Especially understanding framing keeps us industrious but we paramour the calling!

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