Christmas in July Crafts

I love the idea of Christmas in July parties.  After all of the hot weather

it's fun to pretend to be wearing a warm and comfy sweater and drinking

a hot cup of cocoa.  Okay ~ let's get into the Christmas mood with some 

reuse, recycle crafts.

This little Christmas cottage was made from a Ritz Cracker box.  Just

added some paint, some cotton and some glitter.  

I made this skate from the remainder of that Ritz box.  I added some

white felt, sequins and more glitter.   I took a pic of the skate and emailed 

it as a Christmas card to a friend who is an avid ice skater.

I plan to make some more skates this year and give them to Juli for her 

Christmas tree.

Every year my Mom spends hours decorating her Christmas packages.

It's hard to compete with her creations, so I just decided to recycle a brown

grocery bag and paint it to look like a mountain white Christmas scene.

I tied the package up with some left over yarn from a project, added some

white spray painted twigs, a painted pine cone and a little tag.  

I always seem to get started on Christmas crafts so late, but perhaps 

this year I will start much sooner.  I certainly am becoming inspired by all

of the wonderful Christmas in July posts!

I am joining ~

Samantha's Cowgirl Up Christmas in July Party

Bentley ~ we are posting twice today so that we can show some

Christmas tablescapes too!  And how about that Christmas music?

That really gets us in the mood don't you think???

Hugs,

Susan and Bentley