My Handmade Holidays

The holidays are fast approaching and for most families money is tight, very tight. When my girls were young I was a single mom, we had very little money. So a handmade Christmas was what we had back then. One year my children and I made picture frames with cardboard, left over material and poly stuffing. Imagine an 8 year old and 2 year old with glue and fabric...messy to say the least.  Have you ever made Christmas tree ornament out of pine cones, ribbon and glitter? We made gifts and decorations from found objects. Found objects..little did we know we where green even back then! Oh no wait we also did that when I was little too. I can remember making stars and snowflakes out of aluminum tv dinner trays.
Fast forward to 2010...handmade has taken on a whole new look. There is all kinds of handmade venues on the internet, ArtFire is just one of many. You can find jewelry made from old pieces, journals and books made from old cereal boxes. You can find clothes knit with yarn reclaimed from discarded sweaters. Baskets made with yarn made from plastic grocery bags and old VCR tapes.
As artisans we can make anything old new again. On ArtFire you can find anything from vintage clothes and jewelry to cool guitar straps to pencils cups made from old computer discs. Stop by ArtFire and browse by trends, color, location or holiday to name just a few.
Stop and pour yourself a cup of tea and shop from your comfy chair.