Oh my goodness, the last two weeks are a blur! I have been so busy, first with Thanksgiving and now with Christmas preparations But I do have to say, I am feeling quite prepared for Christmas. I'm a planner, so feeling ahead of the game is a glorious thing for me. I have gotten almost all my presents, only two little ones to go. The house is decorated. Our Christmas cards arrived yesterday, all I've got to do is stuff them. Now I have a couple weeks to do one of my favorite things- making homemade treats for friends and family.
I love making homemade gifts for people. And I always make sure my treats taste good so that folks enjoy getting them. Cookie boxes make a great gift. I got some food boxes from the craft store, lined them with wax paper, and divided cookies up using festive cupcake liners. I topped it off with a holiday cookie cutter, I got a bag of them for a dollar- very affordable.
Here's the box closed up. Just stuck a little bow on top and stamped it with a stamp I picked up for a dollar. This stamp has come in so handy over the years, a dollar well spent.
Some of my friends are not married and/or don't have a passel of children like I do. For them I found these cute wedding favor boxes on clearance. I filled them up with an individual portion of cookies.
The box looked so cute with a a bow on top. With a little holiday accent wedding stuff works great at Christmas.
Here's another, super affordable, way to package Christmas cookies. Using old food containers. This one was a can of cornstarch at one time. I just pulled off the label and taped a strip of wrapping paper around it. A bonus to this is the airtight lid that keeps the cookies very fresh.
If you don't have time to make dozens of cookies yourself why not just send the ingredients. Cookies in a jar are a great gift because sometimes when folks get too many Christmas cookies they don't get eaten or savored. This way they can have the cookies whenever they want them. Plus, they get a jar as part of the gift.
[Click here to get directions on how to make cookies in a jar]
Last year I was not ahead of my game and didn't have time to make all my loved ones cookies. So I did some homemade hot chocolate gift packs. They were so much fun to make and easy to do with my kids. Also, super affordable. I made hot chocolate packs for families.
And also packs for individuals. I picked up the cute soup style mug and spoon at the dollar store. We did this one for my girls' teacher. I wrapped it in cellophane tied with a cute bow and tag.
[click here for directions and recipe for hot chocolate gift packs]
Here are recipes for all the Christmas cookies I've posted... keep in touch I'll be posting more over the next couple weeks.
And here are some fun Christmas tags to label all your homemade goodies with.
No comments:
Post a Comment